Hello everybody welcome to Anfield Extra from the Liverpool echo I'm Andy

Kelly and I'm joined by my colleague Neil Jones and today we're delighted to be

joined by Sir Martin Broughton. Sir Martin was the chairman of Liverpool for a tempestuous period in 2010, perhaps one of the

most dramatic few months in the club's history and we've come down to London to have a

chat with him about those few months and try and put a bit more meat on the

bone of what exactly went on in those those dramatic few months in the closing months of the Hicks and

Gillette period at Liverpool.

Martin, thanks very much for joining us.

Can you just take us back to your first knowledge of Liverpool in the sense of potentially becoming a significant figure at the club?

You made no secret of the fact you've been a long time

Chelsea fan, but just if you can tell supporters why you were asked to come on board and what

your role was likely to be at the football club?

Well, it's a strange background, really.

I had approached a very good friend, the guy called Michael Klein, to help me think about raising

money for a sports investment business that I was starting with my son and three other guys.

And that was like on the Thursday.

And he came up with a few ideas. On the Saturday he rang me and so things have changed.

So I said, what do you mean?

Well, last night I met with Tom Hicks and George July at

Liverpool who were asking him also for advice.

But in that case, it wasn't for raising money, it was,

what do we do now?

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