Liverpool fans call on bank to cut funds to owners

Liverpool fans’ group the Spirit of Shankly want the Royal Bank of Scotland to stop financing the club’s American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

The bank, along with US investment bank Wachovia, gave finance to the owners in January to re-finance their original loan of £350m (€428.3m), which ended with the club being saddled with £30m (€36.7m) a year of interest payments.