When you next have a chat with Nicky, ask him who is team was growing up, ask him if he is big mates with the boxer rag Steve the viking Foster and the other Salford rags he used to hang around with. There have been a couple of posters on here saying he had told them he was a rag growing up, also interviews he's given mentioning this as well, as well as Colin Schindler saying he had a united kit growing up in Fathers' sons and football. As with many Blues and rags I know, who your parents support means very little with some, and actually pushes some to 'rebel' and support the opposite.
As I said in a previous post he comes across better than a lot of our ex players, like Quinn or Mills, when he speaks in the media and I know he says he is a blue now, but that is for his current career as much as anything else I would suggest. Its never hurt Everton fans growing up like Carragher, McMananman and Fowler, all now completely associated with Liverpool since they played for them and they all talk about Liverpool as being their team. As for his friendship with Kinky its well documented, as was the crash they had racing the Ferrari, there were other stories about the pair of them that werent very flattering either, means nothing he has a pic of him, I have pics of my mates on my phone.