Liverpool Football Club is over for me

I’ve spent the last eighteen years telling anyone who cared to know that Manchester City (previously a football team that I was quite fond of) had shot to the bottom of my list, having been acquired by the Abu Dhabi United Group to become the PR arm of the United Aram Emirates. And I’ve spent the last five saying that Newcastle (formerly Everyone’s Second Favourite Team) were now my second least favourite, having been acquired by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia as a PR exercise to make us all forget they’re a regime that chops up journalists. It distressed me that the vast majority of Newcastle fans just shrugged, welcomed the cash influx, and carried on as normal. Now my own team — Liverpool, who I have loved for very nearly 50 years — is in the process of being acquired by one of the worst people on the planet. At the time of writing, a consortium including Jeff Bezos owns 38% of my club. (Ha! My club! As if.) And if Bezos alone isn’t bad enough for you, the consortium…