Will we walk alone?

A story in today's Financial Times (page 18) about the purchase of Aston Villa by Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner notes:

Other US football team owners are interested in expanding their sporting interests over the Atlantic. The Kraft family, owners of the New England Patriots, have been linked to Liverpool FC.

I had started to gravitate toward Arsenal, largely on the strength of Nick Hornby's book Fever Pitch, but a Kraft purchase of Liverpool could swing me over.

So, time to familiarize ourselves with Liverpool? If you watched the World Cup, you know stork-like striker Peter Crouch. Midfielder Harry Kewell was the key to the Australian offense, and his absence against Italy was one of the reasons the Sockeroos looked so flat. Much of the rest of the squad is a mystery to me, but not the captain, Steve Gerrard. He had a terrible World Cup -- he kept knocking field goals trying to replicate this sort of thing:



And I've posted this before, but it still amuses me. A Liverpool song, to the tune of "Que Sera."

Steve Gerrard Gerrard
He hits it from 40 yards
He's big and he's f***in hard
Steve Gerrard, Gerrard

"Take a bow, sir. You have been immense."