Aston Villa boss Gerard Houllier hopes for a warm reception from Liverpool fans tomorrow.
Injury-blighted Villa have just one win in nine League games under him and lost to Birmingham City in the Carling Cup quarter-finals.
"It will be interesting to see what the Liverpool crowd is like," Houllier told the Mail on Sunday.
"I trust them to be good. After all, I didn't go afterwards to Everton or Manchester United, did I?"
He will surely be welcomed with open arms. He admits that after suffering heart problems while in charge at Liverpool in 2001 that required 11-and-a-half hours of heart surgery for a dissected aorta, his return five months later was premature and he could not devote the same energy to recruiting players.
"After my illness, some of my signings were not good enough. I didn't have time to check," he says.
