| Liverpool sale: Peter Lim asks board to consider his bid to buy club • Singapore businessman makes £320m takeover offer• Board to discuss sale tonight following high court victory• Liverpool sale: Live coverageThe Singapore billionaire businessman Peter Lim has urged the Liverpool board to consider his bid to buy the club.A fresh takeover of the club can take place following the high court ruling this morning which prevented the current owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, from further attempts to bloke a sale.The newly reconstituted Liverpool board, led by the chairman Martin Broughton, is expected to meet tonight to ratify a sale to New England Sports Ventures but Lim is hoping his improved offer of £320m for the club will also be considered."I welcome the decision of the court. The way is now clear for the board to sell the club. I have delivered my offer to the board and believe that my ownership represents the best option for the future of the club and its supporters," said Lim in a statement. "I hope that when the board is reconstituted tonight that it will not simply ratify a sale to NESV but will consider all the offers before them. I am asking the board to run a full and fair process that enables all of the offers to be considered on their merits before the future of the club is decided."Liverpoolguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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Panorama exposés: From Jason Ferguson to the Glazers Panorama have a history of looking into football-related mattersFather and Son 2004The programme claimed Sir Alex Ferguson's son Jason had exploited his father's position as Manchester United manager to set up transfer deals and make a financial gain from them. Jason Ferguson was never found guilty of any wrongdoing but his father has refused to speak to the BBC since.Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets 2006Following the setting up of Lord Stevens's inquiry into illegal transfer payments in the Premier League, the programme alleged that leading figures, including Harry Redknapp Kevin Bond and Sam Allardyce, had been involved in impropriety. All those involved denied any wrongdoing and Bond sued the BBC for libel after losing his job as the Newcastle United assistant manager before dropping the case in June 2009. The Football Association and the Premier League investigated the Panorama evidence before Stevens issued his final report in June 2007, which found "there was no evidence of irregular payments to club officials or players".Fifa and Coe 2007The episode focused on Fifa's ethics committee, run at the time by Lord Coe, and its failure to take action over a number of suspect dealings, including the allegation that the Fifa executive Jack Warner had asked John McBeth, the former chairman of the Scottish FA, to pay him personally for setting up a friendly between Trinidad & Tobago and Scotland. The programme also looked into Warner's failure to pay the T&T national team bonuses for competing at the 2006 World Cup, a matter which has now been taken up by a judge in Port of Spain.Manchester United – Into the Red 2010 Following a season in which many United supporters had made evident their opposition to the club's American owners, the programme claimed the Glazers have a debt of close to £1.1bn. "In their core business in the US they got it absolutely wrong," said the presenter Andy Green as he detailed how four of the Glazers' 64 shopping malls in America had gone bankrupt due to insufficient revenue growth and the owners' inability to keep up with interest payments.Sir Alex FergusonManchester UnitedJack WarnerBBCSachin Nakraniguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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