Liverpool FC bought by American sports moguls

Liverpool soccer club has just been sold to American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks. The pair already own a number of sports franchises with Hicks owning the NHL’‘s Dallas Stars and Major League Baseball’‘s Texas Rangers and Gillett owning the Montreal Canadiens. This whole affair begs the question: who the hell becomes a sports franchise tycoon? They don’‘t make a video game for that.

BBC Sports article on the buyout

posted by Alex Herder on 16 February 2007
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