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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Blood Red Special: Sir Martin Broughton On FSG & Liverpool Sale

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sir Martin Broughton was speaking exclusively to the ECHO to coincide with the release of his new book 'Whenever I Hear That Song' Mr Broughton played a major role in ushering in the FSG era at Anfield back in October of 2010 when the Boston-based organisation, who were then known as New England Sports Ventures, purchased the club for £300m to end the reign of the detested duo of Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

0:08.0

I suppose the first thing I want to ask, as was just say, is the book title

0:13.0

we never hear that song, you know, why does it call that?

0:15.1

And why now is the right time to kind of

0:18.0

to kind of go to the memoirs?

0:19.1

Well, as, Formula One, horse racing, football,

0:37.0

such.

0:38.0

And didn't focus on any one of them at the expense of the others. on the other

0:43.0

other's and it came to me that with every sort of important part of my life at

0:51.0

different times there's been a song which whenever I hear it takes me back to that era.

1:00.2

So I felt well whenever I hear that song works as a title and then so well

1:06.6

I'll head each chapter with a song title being the one which takes me back. So I mean some of them are obvious you can't

1:17.6

hear you'll never walk alone without seeing the cop in full throat.

1:29.4

And it's the football anthem of all. But for example, horse racing, I've been lucky and had a couple of grade one winners at

1:39.2

Chucklem and when you have a great one with the Chumman Festival, as the horse comes into the parade ring for the winter's enclosure, they blare out of full volume, part of courage by two steps and help. Now most of your

1:58.8

readers would never have heard of heart of courage or two steps on health, but when I hear that music I'm in there bringing in

2:07.5

dodging bullets to the champion chase winner so and each part of my life has been something like that.

2:16.8

Yeah, so it's obviously a very obvious one with Liverpool,

2:19.9

has it with me, you don't have a walk along and do the iconic hand.

2:23.0

I just wanted to go back to when you came in as chairman 2010, was it?

2:28.0

How did that all come about?

2:30.0

Obviously it's something you touch on in the book, but it just wants to kind of get a little bit more on

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