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I have a confession to make. Liverpool FC isn’t the first club I supported. As a little brother to a United-supporting elder brother, I flew my Anything But United (ABU) credentials proudly. When Blackburn Rovers challenged (and eventually pipped) them for the title in 1995, I gleefully adopted them as my team to rub salt into his wounds. Little did I know that Alan Shearer was about to depart, and United would win the title another three times before the decade was over. Bad decision. As fortunes turned for Blackburn, culminating in their relegation in 98/99, it was getting increasingly difficult for 10 year-old boy in Singapore to follow their fortunes. How many times could I look out for their box scores in the back pages of the newspaper, with zero idea what the Championship Table looked like? I had no choice.