Not another US premier league deal

Kevin Roberts — Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:06:42 +0000

Britain’s essential utilities, airports, much of the rail network and even steel manufacturing have all slipped almost unnoticed into foreign ownership.

But when overseas investors start snapping up Premiership football clubs all hell breaks out.

The Sun likened the new American owners of Liverpool to the two wrinklies in The Muppets while Radio Five Live’s Nicky Campbell orchestrated a studio piss-take because one of them used the word franchise instead of club to describe their acquisition.

Gosh wow. We did Tomayto/ Tomarto a long time ago - Get over it. These people have money and expertise in running successful sports teams. It’s only when either one of them (or in the case of our very own British Mark Goldberg, both) is missing that we have a problem.