Schwierigkeiten bei den englisch Hausaufgaben

Ich habe ein Problem und zwar soll ich eine Textstelle erklären, die meiner Meinung nach nicht zum Text passt. Vielleicht fällt euch etwas dazu ein, wäre sehr lieb, wenn ihr mir helfen könntet. Arbeitsauftrag:


Explain the pun in the caption: "Liverpool is down to a handful of strikers."



Hier einen Teil des Artikels:

Liverpool Signs Rush to Win Promotion for Mersey`s Better Side(1995)

The image of Merseyside as full of strikers, political militants,self-pitying "scallies" and warring gangs is to be challenged in a national advertising campaign, Some 650,000 Dollars is to be spent promoting the investment potential of the region under the slogan " Merseyside a pool of talent". One of the advertisments in the national press, which start running today, features Ian Rush and Robbie Fowler, Liverpool football players, with the caption: "Liverpool is down to a handful of strikers". It aims to overturn the perception of the city as strike-bound and states that between 1992 and 1993 Merseyside had a 57 per cent decrease in working days lost to industrial action against a 23 working days lost to industrial action against a 23 per cent increase nationally....