Celtic and Liverpool on target for UEFA Cup showdown

THE UEFA Cup draw has thrown up the enticing prospect of a quarter-final meeting between Liverpool and Celtic but before that Gerard Houllier must face a heart-to-heart in the fourth round with Auxerre and their veteran coach Guy Roux.

Both Houllier and Auxerre's legendary coach have suffered serious cardiac problems in the last couple of years and the French side's director of operations Gerard Bourgoin said: "It's the match of the heart attack victims.

"They had their illnesses at the same time, they were both cured in the same way, they both made an identical comeback and they both went to recover in Corsica.