It takes about five seconds thought to realise that this story's groundless. The fifth most popular search term in the world? The whole world has only four things on its mind other than 'liverpool 08'?

It takes about another minute of searching on Google Trends to prove that this is rubbish. Never mind searches for the likes of Iraq, Barack Obama, Britney Spears, any celebrity, etc, the term 'liverpool 08' doesn't beat searches for 'London', 'Manchester' or even 'Stavanger' on any single day in January so far.

Sloppy journalism from the Daily Post and ridiculous posturing from the Culture Company.