On this day in 2010, FSG's tenure as Liverpool owners started with a miserable 2-0 loss at Everton to leave talk of relegation swirling
Upon completing his £300m purchase 13 years ago, John W Henry had planned to hold off on attending his first match as the new principal owner of Liverpool FC.
By early evening the following day, Henry was likely wishing he had held off for the Anfield visit from Blackburn the following week. The cries of "going down, going down" from the home end would have sounded like nails on a chalkboard for the away supporters at Goodison Park but they would stung Henry and his team even more so. The company who would soon become Fenway Sports Group had begun their ownership of Liverpool in the most auspicious of circumstances.
"That is as good as I have seen a Liverpool team play under my management," said Hodgson, unaware of the excruciating irony of such a statement. "To get a result here would have been Utopia," was another questionable post-match observation. The current Crystal Palace manager became infamous in his relatively short-lived stint in the Anfield hotseat for a litany of eyebrow-raising assertions.
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