MPs uniting against the owners?

[SummerOnions]

A MERSEYSIDE MP has tabled a Commons motion asking for help to kick out Liverpool FC’s American owners.

Walton MP Steve Rotheram, who has only been in the job for a month, has tabled an Early Day Motion asking the house to:

Express dismay at Tom Hicks and George Gillett failing to be responsible stewards of LFC.

Note the departure Rafael Benitez.

Regret the failure to provide a new stadium.

Support talks with supporters’ groups.

And look to an early change of ownership.

Mr Rotheram, supported by fellow Merseyside MPs Alison McGovern, Maria Eagle, Dave Watts, Derek Twigg, and Bill Esterson, said: “I am a Reds fan but this was started by Peter Kilfoyle who is a Blue.

“This is not about Liverpool FC, or even the stadium. Both the clubs are in my Walton constituency and this is about the negative impact this impasse is having on certain areas of Liverpool.â€

The Parliamentary new boy added: “I don’t know if this will be debated but someone told me I could do this so I did.

“It’s just one way of putting pressure on the owners which is something we all should be doing.â€

Worth it, or a bit pointless?

 

[Judge Jules]

More than a bit pointless. There are far more productive things which he as an MP could have done to fire up RBS, largely taxpayer-owned as it now is, to turn the screw on Statler and Waldorf.

Incidentally I thought Kilfoyle was a Red. You learn something every day.