By Chris Bascombe
Hicks and Gillett are suing Anfield’s new custodians,
Fenway Sports Group, for hundreds of millions in damages following
their ousting from the Merseyside club a year ago.
They are also taking legal action against their former creditors
Royal Bank of Scotland, former Liverpool
chairman Martin Broughton and the remaining members of the Kop
hierarchy who oversaw the demise of the old regime.
The former co-owners failed in an attempt to switch legal
proceedings to the United States last February, and their latest
efforts to be reimbursed for their huge losses are being dismissed
by Anfield sources as futile.
A date for a court hearing could still take months to determine.
But papers have now been served on the key figures who forced Hicks
and Gillett out of the club during a dramatic week at the High
Court 12 months ago.
Hicks famously described the events leading to the takeover by
FSG in October, 2010 as an "epic swindle".
He and Gillett were forced to sell after failing to repay debts
worth £282 million with the RBS, missing a series of deadlines.
At the time, fellow board members Broughton, former managing
director Christian Purslow and current chief executive Ian Ayre
used their majority votes on the Anfield board to push the owners
out.