As takeover talk dominates the football conversation, not just for Liverpool, Jim Boardman and Tony Evans look back to the last time it happened to the Reds and the destructive, vicious, build up to the sale. More headlines on the business pages than the back pages, talking more about Wall Street than Anfield Road, two cowboys fighting each other and the banks with the help of their posse and none of them caring about the club they bled dry. With paranoid dossiers, threats to fans, and more liars than goalscorers, we’d have gone mad if we weren’t so mad.