Saturday, April 12, 2008

Kop that

Liverpool fans cheer during the Carling Cup final against Chelsea at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff - the last encounter between the two teams. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty ImagesLiverpool fans cheer during the Carling Cup final against Chelsea at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff - the last encounter between the two teams. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images

"We will all be Liverpool fans tonight," suggests the trail for Stephen Moss's among the natives piece in today's G2. I beg to differ. There will be more than a few people out there rooting for Jose Mourinho's mercenaries as they take on the Rafa Benitez's Reds in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final tonight and they won't all be new laddish mockney types with "loadsamoney" sensibilities or housewives in lust with the smouldering Portuguese.

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