To be honest, I'm not a fan of COC at all.
It only serves to yuppify the city centre, the beneficaries are companies. Nothing has been done for the residents.
In 1990 it was Glasgow.. Moyesy was on the radio this morning saying how it revitalised Glasgow in 1990.
On a related note, I visited Edinburgh in March last year and it was nice looking but there wasn't anything there leisure wise unless you like art, designer clothes or Harry Potter!
I think the whole COC thing has been blown out of proportion. Liverpool are sharing this 'accolade' with Stavanger and Sandnes of Norway. I don't think that fact has been mentioned in the news and as for Phil Redmond, he's only trying to get Brookside back on tv .