Source: Liverpool_Echo
DAVID RANDLES: Liverpool FC has chance to include fans in new era
Multimedia Background image for 'Bill Shankly - the Legend'[LNB]BILL SHANKLY made the people happy. It goes without saying, Tom Hicks and George Gillett haven't.[LNB]There was a significance when one of Shankly's grandaughters joined a recent campaign to oust Liverpool Football Club's (now outgoing) owners.[LNB]In an e-mail sent directly to the movers and shakers involved in the club's current financial plight, Karen Gill made an impassioned plea to the Royal Bank of Scotland to stop bankrolling the Americans' debt-laden tenure at the club.[LNB]It was nothing we haven't heard already via countless protests. The benefit of Shankly's aura did add a bit of clout though.[LNB]Wrote Gill: 'During the past three years, time and again Tom Hicks and George Gillett have shown that they are not fit and proper custodians of the club that my grandfather loved and devoted 15 years of his life to.[LNB]'The business model operated by Hicks and Gillett is unsustainable with debts of £237million loaded onto the club, crippling the clubs ability to progress both on and off the field, with the new stadium and regeneration of the Anfield area seemingly further away than ever.[LNB]'I call upon the chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland - Stephen Hester to stop supporting the current ownership with the renewal of crippling loans and urge Gillett and Hicks to sell the club with immediate effect to more suitable custodians who can help provide the future that Liverpool FC and the Anfield area so desperately need.'[LNB]Within a week, the club has been formally put on the market with the hope Hicks and Gillett are about to ride off into the sunset.[LNB]It would be far-fetched to claim Gill's intervention was the straw that finally broke the camel's back.[LNB]Of course it wasn't.
