"I don't really want to get involved in any big discussion about the situation, " he told the Sunderland Echo from the club's training camp near Antwerp in Belgium.

BBC: Reid desperate to spend

First presented on 11 March, 2002, and shown annually on 11 September ever since, the tribute consists of 88 7, 000-watt xenon light bulbs placed on a roof near the WTC site in two 48-foot squares that echo the shape and orientation of the twin towers.

BBC: 11 September history tour of New York

The street names of Spring Gardens (near Trafalgar Square) and Millbank (where the Abbey's mill once stood) echo Westminster's watery past.

BBC: The hidden history of Westminster