Quick Linkage, And The Battle For My Soul As A Supporter

Sorry about the lack of recap coverage this weekend, but, well, I was being a lazy ass! Anywho, just wanted to provide an excellent (and homerrific) link to a solid Liverpool blog, just to show y'all the insane and undeserved Chelsea/ManU love out there among the mainstream, as compared to rampant Reds indifference:

http://ohyoubeauty.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-love-journamalism.html

One other note: No one cares about the Carling Cup. I understand this. And yet, I am compelled and intrigued by the matchup this week between the Reds and the assumed team of my heritage. My parents actually brought my grandfather's birth certificate back from Leeds a couple of years back, and as Leeds United are the only professional club in the city of Leeds, I feel some kinship with that team. Of course, it's hard to follow and support a League One side from the States, so I really don't know much about the club, other than that they sit atop League One at the moment. I chose Liverpool on mostly arbitrary standards compared to that connection.

So who am I supposed to root for? Should I root for the team from the city where my grandfather was born and briefly raised, or the team I chose a few years back because Steven Gerrard is a fucking God? Should I root for Leeds just because the Carling Cup is worth precisely dick, and I'd rather avoid an early season backlog of fixtures? Should I root for Liverpool because we all know a Leeds win means they'll automatically be drawn to play at Stamford Bridge next round in a bow by the FA to the money, power and influence of that jackass Roman Abramovich? No one wants to see Chelsea get yet another cupcake matchup.

I still have no true solution. I guess I'll just root for a fair game and plenty of orange wedges to go around at halftime...