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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3



royalblue66 said:
Red Echo have an article about Tom Werner saying he was spat on at the first Derby he attended at GP in 2010,why bring this up nine years later ?
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Here is an excerpt of the full article in the new Athletic website; (hope I not infringed any copyright issues? If so then please obviously delete)

Gracing the Champions League felt a long way off when FSG (then known as New England Sports Ventures) completed their £300 million takeover of Liverpool back in October 2010. The club was in a mess. The debt-ridden and divisive reign of former American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett had taken its toll.

Two days after winning a High Court battle to buy the club and signing the paperwork at the London offices of law firm Slaughter & May, the scale of the task facing FSG was underlined when Werner and Henry took their seats at Goodison Park for the Merseyside derby. Roy Hodgson’s side slumped to a miserable 2-0 defeat, which left Liverpool 19th in the Premier League table — only goal difference kept them off the bottom. It was an unpleasant experience for the owners in more ways than one.

“There was a lot of chanting in the Everton stands that day,” Werner recalls. “Everton won that match so it wasn’t a particularly auspicious opening. After Everton scored one of their goals, one of their supporters spat at John and me. It was a somewhat rude welcome to English football. We’ve moved forward a lot since that moment. Gradually, the enormity of the task unfolded and revealed itself.”
 

PaulPowersTash said:
Here is an excerpt of the full article in the new Athletic website; (hope I not infringed any copyright issues? If so then please obviously delete)

Gracing the Champions League felt a long way off when FSG (then known as New England Sports Ventures) completed their £300 million takeover of Liverpool back in October 2010. The club was in a mess. The debt-ridden and divisive reign of former American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett had taken its toll.

Two days after winning a High Court battle to buy the club and signing the paperwork at the London offices of law firm Slaughter & May, the scale of the task facing FSG was underlined when Werner and Henry took their seats at Goodison Park for the Merseyside derby. Roy Hodgson’s side slumped to a miserable 2-0 defeat, which left Liverpool 19th in the Premier League table — only goal difference kept them off the bottom. It was an unpleasant experience for the owners in more ways than one.

“There was a lot of chanting in the Everton stands that day,” Werner recalls. “Everton won that match so it wasn’t a particularly auspicious opening. After Everton scored one of their goals, one of their supporters spat at John and me. It was a somewhat rude welcome to English football. We’ve moved forward a lot since that moment. Gradually, the enormity of the task unfolded and revealed itself.”
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lol ok mate
 

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