Source: Liverpool_Echo
The most remarkable twenty four hours in Liverpool Football Club’s history
Echo reporter Gary Stewart recalls one of the most nail-biting days in Liverpool FC's history[LNB]THE past 24 hours have seen Reds fans subjected to more stomach churning twists and turns than even that famous few hours in Istanbul.[LNB]After last week's night of the long knives - when Liverpool's American co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett tried to dump LFC's rebellious board before they could sell the club out from under them - the battle arrived at the High Court in London.[LNB]On Wednesday afternoon Mr Justice Floyd delivered the verdict that dozens of Liverpool fans waiting outside, and many thousands more worldwide, had hoped for.[LNB]In a damning verdict against the Americans he dismissed their complaint that they had been excluded from the club's sale to New England Sports Venture (NESV), telling the court: 'I fail to see what complaint the owners have.'[LNB] All seemed ready for Boston Red Sox owner John Henry and his backers to snap up Liverpool for £300m and many fans will have gone to bed with a head full of dreams, rather than nightmares, for the first time in three years.[LNB]However late on Wednesday news broke that Hicks and Gillett had taken their battle to a Texas Court and been granted a temporary restraining order against the sale.[LNB]They added to that bizarre twist an incredible broadside against their board as well as the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) who are owed £237m of the club's debt.[LNB]In a statement they claimed they were the victims of an 'epic swindle' and that Liverpool was being sold at 'hundreds of millions of dollars' below market value.
