londonsouthampton on saturday night all the watering holes and restaurants in london were packed to the rafters beer flowed generously and the occasion demanded it its not every day that two english teams contest the final of the champions league as liverpool squared off with local club tottenham hotspur in the final of the champions league all eyes here were glued to the big game in madridworld cup schedulewith the spurs based in north london all the londoners of course were supporting their team returning to london from cardiff after cheering new zealand to a thumping tenwicket win george ellis rued missing out on watching the final live most of us wanted liverpool to lose now they would have won as many champions league titles as manchester united they would get the bragging rights he saidliverpool though enjoys massive support here too especially among the older generation i am supporting them because my parents live in that area and they are emotional about the club said john maggs the steward at the sophia gardens gate i support liverpool because they were winning everything in the 70s when i was growing up said derek evans who was returning from watching the new zealandsri lanka game in cardiff on saturday with the big game set for an 815pm local time kickoff people looked in a rush to get home or find a pubit was no different in the south of england in eastleigh a small town in hampshire lodged between southampton and winchester the spitfire pub throbbed with fullthroated activity till close to midnight liverpool fans easily outnumbered spurs supporters and the mood here was that of revelry and festivity as the bubbly flowedreports said desperate fans forked out as much as 10000 pounds for a ticket to the final at atletico madrids wanda metropolitano nearly 100000 english supporters had travelled to madrid while the wanda can host up to 68000 ignoring police advice thousands of fans had travelled to madrid without tickets no surprise then that touts had a field daywhile most english fans had come to madrid on train thousands of supporters had to undertake a gruelling 22hour coach ride the city of madrid hardly complained as the invasion of british fans meant a cool 50 million pounds to the local economy reports said