Comments on: Liverpool’s Tom Hicks Defaults on $525 Million Loans

By: paul penn

paul penn — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:52:56 +0000

hicks is dulusional if he thinks somebodys gonna put money into the clubs and not retain a holding stake.he cant afford to keep going about his business like this because the bottom line is, he simply cant afford to. get out of liverpool now

By: Kingsnake

Kingsnake — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:25:27 +0000

I wonder when supporters will realize that fat men bearing supposedly fat checks (but in reality purchasing using the team to finance its own purchase — wish I could pull that off!) are not their saviors, but their executioners?

By: Brian Phillips

Brian Phillips — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:04:23 +0000

joejoejoe — No one who leaves brilliant made-up supporter chants in this space has to apologize for mild generational inaccuracies in them. And switching Mansour in for Zayed doesn’t change the meter anyway.

Brandon — Similarly, no one who works the Boer War into a comments section—any comments section—ever needs to say they’re sorry for it.

j — You may well be right. And how happy is George Gillett that he ever went into business with Tom Hicks at this point? I’m guessing his photo from the Hicks Christmas card is just nasty with drawn-on mustaches and evil eyebrows at this point.

By: j

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:44:32 +0000

I suspect this is exactly the sort of news potential buyers were waiting for. Now they can bend Hicks over the barrel and get a cut rate price for Liverpool FC or Kop Holdings or Kop Investment or whatever.

By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:49:48 +0000

Sheikh Zayed is the deceased father of the current Man City owner, Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. I apologize for the error. I could blame Google but it was really an operator error.

By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:45:23 +0000

His armband says that he’s for sale*
Torres, Torres
The check is in the mail it says
Torres, Torres
They sold the lad from sunny Spain
to Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Fernando Torres, loan payment #9

* – I hope not

By: Brandon C

Brandon C — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:10:22 +0000

Sorry, just flashbacks from having a roommate that was a die-hard Liverpudlian (and Liverpool fan) in Birmingham.

By: Brian Phillips

Brian Phillips — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:00:55 +0000

It refers to a battle in the Boer War. But I’m pretty sure that to Hicks and Gillett when they were setting up their holding companies, it just referred to the fact that someone told them it was a marketable thing in Anfield.

By: Brandon C

Brandon C — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:28:51 +0000

Wow. That’s not going to be good; RBS is busy reparing windows at the moment.

Also, IIRC Kop means ‘hill’ in Afrikaans or something like that. Came into use after the Boer War; used for the slanted hills on the end of pitches.