And when the club unveiled a bronze statue outside its home stadium, Old Trafford, and named the North Stand after him, the timing suggested he might be ready to bow out.
On the north shore stand mounds of charred lumber -- 30 feet high in places -- from the Great Fire in 1871.
Admission for the Co-Operative Championship game against Gateshead at the Stobart Stadium on 23 May will be free for regular North and South Stand seats.
The rest of the world is equally anxious about the current stand-off over Iraq, the crisis caused by North Korea's newly aggressive stand on nuclear weapons, and the war on terrorism.
Clarke shared an unbeaten 140-run stand with Marcus North (52 not out), while Simon Katich (79) also impressed.
Drive up the Windward Coast to the North Shore for surfing, stand-up paddle boarding and windy walks out to Kaena Point.
Liverpool built the Shankly Gates at Anfield in his memory and in 1998 Preston North End named their new stand the Bill Shankly Kop.
Yet even the places that attract more visitors, such as lazy Plakias, west of Preveli, stand apart from the north and its resorts.
The newly formed Stand Up For Women North Dakota also planned rallies Monday in Fargo, Grand Forks and Minot, said Robin Nelson, one of the organizers of the demonstration.
"As people in North Africa and the Middle East stand up and give voice to their hopes for more open and democratic societies, we have an opportunity - and I would say a responsibility - to help them, " he said.
Summer visitors see grazing reindeer and Sami camps, and in winter a special bus follows a snow plow up the final eight miles to reach the 1, 000-foot high plateau where, bracing against the winds, you get to stand beside the iconic North Cape globe for photographic proof positive that you have literally stood at the top of the world.
That will be easier if America, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia, the five countries that pushed for the deal with Mr Kim, stand tough together against the North's attempts to renege on it.
Mr Obama had welcomed G8 leaders late on Friday, and they discussed the nuclear stand-off in Iran and North Korea, and the unrest in Syria.
England managed to take only one wicket - and that to end the stand of exactly 200 between Marcus North and Brad Haddin, at which point Ricky Ponting declared.
"It's up to the people in Weston to stand their ground and not allow North Somerset Council to bully us into a position where it's knocked down, " said Derek Mead, chairman of Trop (WsM).
The UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Godfrey Bloom, is also to stand on behalf of his party.
Even though the number is expected to fall slightly in North Africa, the report estimates it will still stand at 26.7% in 2017, with the Middle East projected to have 28.4% of its young people out of work by that date.
Mr Mehdi said the artwork would stand twice the height of the Angel of the North in Gateshead.
And no matter how tough these times have been, no matter how many obstacles that may stand in our way, I promise you, North Carolina, there are better days ahead. (Applause.) We will emerge stronger than we were before.
And on the Korean peninsula, we stand with our ally South Korea, and insist that North Korea keeps its commitment to abandon nuclear weapons.
The talks are expected to focus on the Middle East, the stand-off over Iran's nuclear programme, North Korea's missile tests, energy security and the Balkans.
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But America is keen for it to take up the issue, partly as a way of holding North Korea to account for its treaty breaches, but also to ensure that, unlike in 1993 when North Korea last provoked a nuclear crisis, its neighbours will not simply stand back and leave America to do all the negotiating.
In the north-east both Middlesbrough and Sunderland have built impressive new stadiums, which stand in splendid isolation amidst a lot of empty ground.
The one place, apart from Pristina, where Serbs have remained in significant numbers is the mining town of Mitrovica, part of the French sector in the north, where the Ibar river has become the dividing line in an ugly stand-off.
As we stand in the Thames Barrier control room, computer screens tracking the waves out in the North Sea, I ask him about the value of remembering the catastrophe of 1953.
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