An open letter from a Liverpool fan to Jim Jordan, the Presiding Judge of the 160th Judicial District of Dallas, who accepted Tom Hicks and George Gillet’s application for an injunction against the club’s sale to NESV.
Mr Jordan,
Hicks and Gillett are clinging to power at Anfield
Thank you dearly for standing in the way of a perfectly legal business acquisition and causing further grief to millions of people around the world. Due to the common conception that Americans cannot understand British humour, I will at this point inform you that I am being sarcastic. A long drawn out legal experience that is completely alien to you, has created a great deal of distress and heartache to people who follow Liverpool Football Club. People have campaigned in their hundreds of thousands, protested loudly at every related sporting event and shown support that consumes their private lives and free time, such is their love for this Football club. Motivated solely because they were lied to and manipulated.
Our sports teams are sewn into the fabric of the community and as a result are as much a part of life as our Neighbours, Councils or Law enforcement. I don’t expect you to understand this, given that going to watch your local Baseball/Basketball team has as much to do about sport as: eating a hot dawg, watching half naked women parade around or a huge mascot taking shots at his novelty basketball hoop.
As melodramtic as it sounds, our teams are an extension of our cultural personality, yours are merely another place in America to eat fried food and buy overpriced memorabilia. Due to our unconditional passion, when a wealthy Texan offered our football club an exciting future in 2007, we were naturally elated with the prospect, when he went back on his promise and left us on the brink of chaos we were incredibly incensed. Liverpool Football Club is not just stocks and shares, it is a cultural icon shared by millions who rely upon it to find happiness and excitement, not just a Large Pepsi at ‘Time Out’.
On October 13th 2010, this long drawn out affair, in which your friend Tom Hicks had come heartbreakingly close to destroying OUR club, had come to a close, as a British court ruled that he was no longer liable for making decisions related to the ownership of the club. Instead of accepting said agreement, he turned to American jurisdiction in a disgusting show of egotism and bitterness. How the next few days will unfold is hard to determine, but rest assured, you are now a footnote on the story that tells of how one man’s greed and vanity threatened to destroy an institution that gives hope and inspires dreams, to millions of adults and children everywhere. I hope you’re proud of your injunction, that will help an incredibly rich man try to make some more money from the everyday people, who can barely afford a ticket to watch the football club they adore. By signing your name on a piece of paper, you may have destroyed one of the greatest sports teams of all time, and condemned it’s inconsolable fans to a lifetime of disillusion.
The British public were generally quite critical with your legal system, when an American court found OJ Simpson Not Guilty of murder fifteen years ago. I’m glad to see that incompetency and artifice are still very much prevalent in your judicial system and that a fine man of your stature is spear heading this quest for dishonesty. Just in case you don’t quite follow me, I’m being sarcastic again.
Have a great day!
Chris Jordan
The ordeal is over and the deadly American duo gone. The future is bright with the new owners making positive noises from the boardroom