Is there a reason that the portugal national team on rugby 08 contains liverpool players/managers?

Ive played this game for a number of years but have only discovered who is actually in the pretend portugal team. I know that EA didn't have a license to use the real team, but i'm starting to think that the person who invented the name's was a liverpool fan. The team includes: B. Paisley, D. Alg'leash, R. Benitez and X. Alonso. There may well be others but my limited liverpool knowledge has only noticed these. Does anyone know if this was deliberate or by accident?