Boston to Liverpool | Inside story on how FSG and John W Henry set the Reds on path to domination

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Having arrived at Anfield in October 2010, Fenway Sports Group have revolutionised Liverpool and even Anfield itself. Fresh from delivering the club's first Premier League title, ending the 30-year wait for a 19th top-flight crown, Matt Addison explores just how John W Henry and FSG have gone about returning Liverpool to the top of English football. Crossing the Atlantic, Matt speaks with Boston sports writer Frank Dell'Apa, Adam Zand and Garrett LaBonte of the Liverpool FC Official Supporters Club Boston, as well as Liverpool.com's Ollie Connolly, to explore FSG's decision-making, use of analytics and ability to delegate to experts in the respective fields they work. Plus, we look at how FSG have been quick to backtrack on contentious decisions, such as price-ticket rises and the recent decision to use the Government's Job Rentention Scheme by furloughing employees. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberWant to leave a message to Jurgen Klopp's title winners? If you do, let us know where in the world you celebrated Liverpool's Premier League victory here: https://liverpoolchampions2020.liverpoolecho.co.uk/ Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/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	In October 2010, Fenway Sports Group, then known as New England Sports Ventures, the owners of the prestigious
0:15.4	baseball team the Boston Red Sox, announced that they had bought Liverpool Football Club.
0:20.0	I'm Matt Addison and on this special edition of the Blood Red Podcast, I've spoken to four people who know all about the ownership group to get the inside story on their tenure at Anfield so far.
0:30.0	There have been plenty of mistakes. The recent further decision and then U-turn for instance proves that.
0:36.0	But Liverpool are now the reigning Premier League, European and World Champions under Yoganclop.
0:41.0	So FSG must have done something right too.
0:44.0	The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.
0:47.0	In Boston, the Red Sox hadn't won the World Series for 86 years
0:52.0	in a drought that was painful for fans until John Henry series for
0:53.4	86 years in a drought that was painful for fans until John Henry Tom Werner and co took over in 2001.
0:57.4	They won the World Series inside three years and thanks to some smart recruitment
1:02.0	their title drought was over thanks to the work of their coaching staff.
1:05.0	Sound familiar? That's because it very much is.
1:09.0	There are plenty of parallels between Liverpool and Boston, and by extension, Liverpool FC and the Red Sox and not least because of the shared ownership.
1:17.4	The first of the people I spoke to in order to get the inside track on FSG,
1:21.6	the Red Sox and how it's all relevant to Liverpool FC is Frank de Lapper,
1:25.8	one of the biggest soccer writers in the USA, who's also based in Boston.
1:30.3	Starting with the financial side of things, then about Anfield and Fenway Parks renovations,
1:35.2	we discussed the similarities between Liverpool Football Club and the Boston Red Sox.
1:39.8	There's a lot of similarities.
1:42.1	Yeah, I think they saw, well, I don't think either,
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