Liverpool FC sale to NESV approved last night, lawyer reveals

Lord Grabiner QC, representing the Liverpool companies in the British High Court today, has revealed that the board last night approved the sale of the club to NESV by three votes to two.

Mr Hicks and Mr Gillett voted against the deal and were now calling on the Dallas court to jail directors and lawyers at the board meeting for contempt of the US court.

“We say the proceedings brought in Dallas are abusive, vexatious and oppressive.”

He added: “Having lost in front of your lordship they simply went to another jurisdiction to resume the same debate.”

But he said that, in the 28-page petition presented to the judge in Dallas, there was only one paragraph which dealt with the proceedings in London and their claims were “a grotesque parody of the truth”.

They had not told the judge they had been refused an order to restrain the sale of Liverpool.

“They concealed the fact because they are now anxious to secure for themselves a second bite of the cherry from that famous jurisdiction, the Dallas County Court.

“If it were not such a serious matter, it would be a joke.”

The Dallas proceedings also included a massive claim for damages and claims of a conspiracy, he said.

“The owners’ behaviour conclusively demonstrates just how incorrigible they are.

“They are absolutely determined to stop this transaction in its tracks and they have no lawful justification for behaving in this way.”

He added: “This is unconscionable behaviour of the worst possible kind and they are probably sitting there giggling now to themselves.”