Liverpool-Roma, the Pallotta family will be divided... due to superstition: Michael at Anfield and James in London

Roma President James Pallotta spoke to ESPN.com prior to their Champions League Semi-Final against Liverpool: "I'm not going to the game, because I have my superstitions. I mean I didn't go to the last game in this round in Barcelona and then went to the home game and so I kind of keep doing those same things. It's just always stuff like that happens that I have. If I go back to the days playing basketball, from high school and on, I would put my left sock on first then my right, my left shoe then my right, tie my left shoe then tie my right. If my right shoe came undone, then I'd have to go back and untie my left, retie that one, do the right, so you know, I've got these little quirks. I'm not going to publicly say where I am watching the game, but there's an Italian restaurant in London that Franco Baldini and a few of us have watched games in the past so we'll be upstairs in one of those. I have not [been to Kiev], no. I actually know where it is on a map, but I haven't been there. It's a beautiful city. I was with a friend of mine yesterday, who is formerly from there, 35-plus years ago and we were talking about the city. I would love to go." His son, Michael, will attend tonight's game at Anfield in his place.