In its letter, FSG insisted: “The unique and sacred relationship between Liverpool Football Club and its supporters has always been foremost in our minds. It represents the heartbeat of this extraordinary football club.”
At at time when the Hillsborough inquest process is finally drawing to a close, those words take on even more meaning. Now there is an onus on Liverpool’s owners to prove that those are more than just warm words. And for the rest of the Premier League’s 19 clubs to wonder whether they might not just have got their priorities skewed too. Power to the people, right on.