Does it matter who owns your football club?

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Anyone reading the papers or watching Sky Sports News won't be able to ignore the fact that Liverpool football club might end up being owned by a sheikh.

And we’re not talking about the News of the World’s fake sheikh, we’re talking about a real sheikh with real money – lots of it. About $9bn if you believe the sums. Now as someone who’s married to a Scouser, I had to raise a smile when I heard the news – does the Sheikh and his investment team really know what they’re letting themselves into? Liverpool is a great city, great people and their passion for football puts parts of the country (London) to shame, but it almost feels like an episode from ‘Only Fools and Horses,’ because on paper it sounds all a bit surreal. But do you care who o...

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