The LFCNY tells Hicks and Gillett to get out immediately.

New York, Wednesday 28th July 2010.

“Get out of our club now and forever. You’ve done enough damage. Go before you do any more.”

The LFCNY, the oldest and biggest Liverpool supporters’ club in North America, unreservedly calls for Tom Hicks and George Gillett to step down immediately as owners. They are nothing more than financial parasites who are using the club we have known and loved all our lives for nothing more than increasing their bank balances.

They care not for our 18 League Championships; they care not for our 5 European Cups; they care not for our 3 UEFA Cups; they care not for our 7 FA Cups; they care not for our 7 League Cups; they care not for our 3 European Super Cups. They care not for the Liverpool way, for the fans, for the history, for the memories, for the glories of our great club. For the glory that is Liverpool FC. They care not.

They are not fit and proper persons to be the guardians of Liverpool FC.

All they have contributed to Liverpool FC since that horrendous day in February 2007 is shame and dishonor. When they arrived, the club debt stood at £44.8 million; we were told that their debts incurred in buying the club would not be foisted upon the club. We were also told that work would begin on a new stadium in 60 days. This summer, the debt of Liverpool FC is £350 million and there are no plans for any stadium and the manager Rafael Benitez has been fired. Lies, subterfuge and debts. This has been the sad and sorry story of the tenure of Tom Hicks and George Gillett at Liverpool FC.

In coming weeks, the LFCNY will be working closely with all the other Liverpool supporters’ clubs in North America and the Spirit of Shankly (SOS) to make sure that these two men will have nothing more to do with Liverpool FC. The people of Liverpool, the fans worldwide and the club itself deserves better than the steady diet of falsehoods and insults that have been served up by Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

“Get out of our club now and forever. You’ve done enough damage. Go before you do any more.”

Statement of the LFCNY.

New York, Thursday 10th June 2010.

Three and a half years ago, in early February of 2007, Tom Hicks and George Gillett bought Liverpool Football Club, promising to respect the traditions and culture of the club. It has been a three and a half years of unendurable torture for all Liverpool fans. Paved with lies, false starts and insults, they have created a path that is undeniably taking Liverpool FC on the road to ruin. These two owners have promised much, delivered nothing and most recently dismissed manager Rafael Benitez.

After this dismissal hundreds of Liverpool fans gathered outside Anfield to vent their disgust at the two owners. This was both a spontaneous gathering for some and an internet organized protest by others. Unfortunately, that evening, some Liverpool fans judged it best to burn the American flag to protest the American owners who have ruined Liverpool FC. The LFCNY strongly condemns these actions, as wrong, distasteful and counter to fostering unity amongst Liverpool fans worldwide. Quite simply, this should never have happened and is inexcusable and reprehensible. There are better ways to protest and make one’s point.

The LFCNY is a fan club which supports Liverpool FC and it is based in the USA; many of our members are American and many others have found a warm welcome on American shores. The LFCNY will always condemn the burning of the flag of the country that means so much to our members.

The LFCNY looks forward to working closely with all Liverpool fans worldwide, including the SOS, in the campaign to end the tenure of Tom Hicks and George Gillett as the owners of Liverpool Football Club.

LFCNY

Please contact Nathan Smith (Nathan@lfcny.org) with any questions

Response from the Spirit Of Shankly

"The Spirit of Shankly are aware of the concern and disgust that has come from Liverpool supporters in the US following the isolated incidents at the demonstration at Anfield last Thursday.

Firstly, it is essential to note that the demonstration had nothing to do with the Union and was a a spontaneous event on a day when emotions were running high with the manager having left. It was pretty clear to those there that the flag incidents were reflective of the distaste for Hicks and Gillett and not for Americans in general.

Secondly the Union has a major event planned for the 4th July and will give clear guidance before and during the rally that demonstrations of xenophobia including anything to do with American flags will not be tolerated."

More LFCNY news will follow shortly...

On April 15 1989, 24,000 Liverpool fans travelled to a football match. 96 never returned. Over 20 years after Britain's worst sporting disaster, we want the world to see the faces of the fans whose hopes and dreams for the future ended that day.

Collectively they've become known as 'The 96' but to the families and friends they left behind, they were simply a dad, a son, a brother and a sister; a cousin, an auntie, an uncle and a grandad; a boyfriend, a husband, a soul mate and a best friend.

As the wife of one of the supporters who never came home so eloquently put it in a letter published on this website on the 20th anniversary of the disaster, "To the world my husband is one of the 96, but to me and his children, he was always our number one."

To those who didn't know them, the fans who died at Hillsborough that day may just be a number of names etched into the Hillsborough Memorial marble.

24,000 tickets, 23 turnstiles, two criminally overcrowded pens, 96 dead and 766 people injured - numbers alone don't even begin to tell half the story of a disaster that has shaped Liverpool Football Club and the fans that will forever follow it.

Probably the most significant number in this whole sorry tragedy is the one that depicts the age of each victim on the slide show below.

That number, and the faces staring back at you - captured during happier times - tells you everything you need to know about why the events of April 15, 1989 and the fans who died that day will never ever be forgotten.