Why doesn’t Hicks get the message?

NEEDS must: I can’t avoid the subject of Liverpool that, in itself, probably encapsulates ‘Good Week’, ‘Bad Week’ and ‘Gripe of the Week’.

Why doesn’t Hicks get the message? It’s difficult to think of a man more reviled in English football. No rhinoceros can have a hide thicker than the Texan. And what about the hypocrisy of the Premier League that, remember, deemed the Americans ‘fit and proper’ to take over at Anfield? Are they now seriously considering docking points when those to blame for the whole mess are so obviously acting outside the interests of the club? Aren’t they meant to distinguish between the debts of a club and those of its owners? Clearly, Liverpool would be financially solvent, healthy even, if it wasn’t for the debts loaded onto it by those hustlers from across the pond.

Dip into the ‘chat rooms’ and the phone-ins and it’s plain many are having a great time enjoying Liverpool’s distress. But they should ask themselves a question: would the potential demise of Liverpool be in the interests of English football? Of course not, it would make our game a laughing stock across the planet.