If you missed last night’s documentary on our 30-year wait for a league title on BBC2, go and watch it before you read on.
But if you did catch it, then you will join me in saying that it was a fantastically put together piece of television that all of us thoroughly enjoyed. Not only did it illustrate how far we have come as a football club since the days of Graeme Souness, but also the impact that our current owners have had in modernising us as an institution.
For me, it was an emotional roller-coaster during my first memories of being a fan under Roy Evans, to today under the newly-labelled club legend Jurgen Klopp. I most certainly shed a tear watching the footage back of Istanbul, the touching comments from Margaret Aspinall and Kenny Dalglish’s support for those families affected by the Hillsborough disaster. It’s what makes our club different from all of the rest.
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Despite all of this, there was one part of the film that struck me. Our current ownership, under John Henry and FSG, and the marvellous job that they have done to help take us to the peak of English, European and world football.
It’s fair to say that they do have their critics, I am certainly not one of them. For far too long, we were caught in the blinding headlights of nostalgia, which severely hampered our progress for over 20 years in the Premier League. This prevented us from taking that extra step.
John W. Henry described the moment when he was meeting Jurgen Klopp in New York as “the most exciting”, since becoming our majority shareholder. This enlightened me towards his ambition and how much he wanted to emulate the Boston Red Sox’s success and bring it to Anfield.
The expansion of the Main Stand, the blueprints for the Anfield Road End and the construction of the new training ground, all reinvestments, shows how much FSG care about this club. We may not sign as many players as we want, but the infrastructure is almost in place to become a modern-day powerhouse on and off the pitch.