LFC: Thirteen Years of Good Luck (Or Rather, Good Ownership)

There with the grace of FFP go others

Gillett and Hicks, clueless warring cowboys piling debt on Liverpool; Roy Hodgson, leading the team with his 6-2-2 formation fast into the relegation zone; administration awaiting in a court case, if new owners cannot take charge; and me, Paul Tomkins (bald, bland, bespectacled and talking about himself in the third person), on a leaked list of club enemies.

Thirteen years ago; unlucky for some.

But back then I already supported the self-sustainable football model of ownership; I had ever since seeing Leeds reach for the stars with a rocket they couldn't afford. (And when it felt back to Earth, the damage was immense.)

I didn’t know a lot about FSG (NESV as was) beyond what sagely American subscriber Jeff said on the old TTT site, launched in 2009 (like night and day, compared to Gillett and Hicks). Then, in the summer of 2010, unbeknownst to me, John W Henry bought some of my books on Amazon, after someone told him to take a look at Liverpool FC, and later he got in touch with me.

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