MONSTER Colonel Gaddafi was a Liverpool fan. One of the team's mugs was found in the Libyan dictator's hideout and he is thought to have supped tea from it hours before his death.
Football is a funny old game, as shown by the club allegiances of these other masters of menace.
OSAMA BIN LADEN: The 9/11 monster became an Arsenal fan during teenage visits to Britain in the Seventies.
According to Adam Robinson, author of Bin Laden: Behind The Mask Of The Terrorist, he continued visiting Britain in the Nineties to catch the occasional game.
BENITO MUSSOLINI: The leader of Italian fascism was no fair-weather fan.
Mussolini stuck by his home-town team Bologna all his life � until it was cut short by his unpleasant encounter with a lamp post in 1945.
RADOVAN KARADZIC: The former Bosnian Serb president is facing trial in the Hague on war crime charges but insists on being given the latest scores of his beloved Inter Milan.
CARLOS THE JACKAL: Notorious in the 1970s for a string of terror attacks, Venezuelan-born Carlos was a keen Arsenal fan.
He is now more of a goner than a Gooner as he is serving life in prison with no hope of parole. PAUL KAGAME: Rwanda's current hardman president is another Arsenal fan, who also takes a big interest in modern weaponry.
Perhaps he associates the Arsenal name with a military build-up.
ADOLF HITLER: The Fuhrer had a soft spot for Schalke 04 and they won six national titles from 1934 to 1942.
But the club, based in Gelsenkirchen, near Dusseldorf, claim there is no proof Hitler was a fan.
With rare German humour spokesman Gerd Voss said: "We watched every episode of 'Allo 'Allo! in a bid to find a clue. Nothing."
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