Recently my beloved Liverpool were taken over by a couple of Americans. I have nothing against them per-se but they do not seem to understand quite what they have bought. This is not a franchise that they can play with, this club is much more important than that to paraphrase the great Bill Shankly.
Recently they have started to stray away from the Liverpool way and the team is not playing as well as it was earlier in the season, the extra players we should have brought in during the January transfer window have not been bought and one of the best managers in the world has been made to feel unwelcome. However, this being Liverpool the fans have not let it happen unopposed. There have been a number of shows of support for the manager including a march to the ground by a few thousand fans before a home game.
Now comes the most audacious idea of the lot. Get 100,000 fans together to buy the club for a cool £500 million ($1 billion!) so the club is owned in the same way as Barcelona. Never again will anyone be able to buy the club. The fans will elect the board and de-select them if they do not perform.
I think this is a fabulous idea and given the fact that the website for this scheme crashed not long after launch due to the number of people trying to visit it I am clearly not alone.
Watch this space.
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