Friday, 15 October 2010

The shankly gates to Anfield seem to be glowing a new silver lining for Liverpool football club, But the rust wouldn't go easily.

The board room battle at Liverpool football club has been a main talking point among football for recent years now and with the High court battle saga just unravelling into tortoise and hare race with New England Sports Ventures patiently waiting on the fence for their inevitable congratulations and gratitude from the Liverpool fans who will welcome them.





Behind the scenes at Liverpool is no doubtingly a complete mess because of two men who were seeking to own a football club with no interest in football, something any good businessman straight away would say is a bad idea. But luckily enough for the players whilst they have been playing some appalling football, the media have not been picking up on this as the high court battle makes a much better read. Players like Torres, Gerrard and Carragher would usually be the players to come under heaps of pressure by the press in asking why the bad form. But football of today is much more than the football now.

Roman Abromovich was the first big money chairman that helped a club on the verge of champions league qualification places to now the best established team in England at this moment in time. He has managed to govern his club well in the essence he got all of the dead wood out straight away and brought in the players from the start he thought would give him the best squad, in which he was succeeded with minor debt. The Glazer family were the next big money family to take control of a football club and the first big money Americans. As any Englishman knows no football fan agrees with Americans associating themselves with football... let alone running one of the biggest clubs in Manchester United. They have never gained respect from their fans and in the past years protests from fans have resulted in a blast from the past bringing in the true colours of Manchester United of yellow and green scarfs. But somehow they are managing to cope with the substantial debt around £700m. However not to far away the same can not be said for the Liverpool owners.


Tom Hicks and George Gillett bought Liverpool football club each having equal shares, and its not in any Americans nature to be on equal terms, they always want that one better than each other, so squabbling started from the very beginning with each one trying to weasel there way into more shares into the club to gain further control. The Board room battle has resulted in jobs behind the scenes at the club lasting around 3 months for anyone working there who disagrees with the owners. But fortunately the first sight of a silver lining came in the appointment of Martin Broughton as the new chairman to look for the best sale of the club, and while the fans grew inpatient with a man who is a season ticket holder at rivals Chelsea, the fans lack of patience was kicked to the side of the road when compared to the fans hatred for the owners.



The Liverpool fans are most likely the most loyal and passionate fans in the country in the essence that they care for the club they love. Almost like a loving Auntie or Uncle, they visit them on weekends and are always in high spirits when seeing their nephews, but care for them enough to be able to tell them off occasionally. And that's what the club needs to always remember and where Tom Hicks and George Gillett went wrong from the start. They were fighting with each other for ownership of the club when all along everyone knows its the fans that run a football club, especially Liverpool Football Club.



This ongoing high court battle was brought to a close on the 15Th October and since then Liverpool football club have endured a turbulent, yet promising run of form with a 2-0 win against Chelsea bringing Fernando Torres out of his scoring duck and in that same week we saw heroics at Anfield that Liverpool only seem to get on European nights, albeit the Europa league. Steven Gerrard came off the bench at half time against Napoli to score a hat-trick in a memorable European night not only for fans but also the new Owner John W Henry and his wife who embraced the warm atmosphere by singing along to the infamous "You'll Never Walk Alone."

That song has always been the body and soul of Liverpool Football Club, but for this moment in time has it never been so relevant to the clubs predicament. The fans will be chanting the song in hope that their team will now not walk alone but with owners with whom they can trust upon to salvage their club.

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