Overwhelming response to 'Share Liverpool FC'

Following the ‘Share Liverpool FC’ Press Conference on Friday, the Group’s website – which went live simultaneously – reached a level of one thousand hits per second, before it crashed at 5.07pm, following the launch of a ‘fan’s ‘buy out’ of Liverpool Football Club. The site has had to be moved to a larger hosting company and is now up and running.

‘Share Liverpool FC’ spokesperson, Rogan Taylor said: “We knew this was going to be big, and we thought we had enough robustness in the website to take the strain, but we were completely overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of hits within just a few minutes. We will have www.shareliverpoolfc.co.uk back up as soon as possible.

The story went round the world in a flash and there are clearly many millions of Liverpool fans who wanted to know more about our project to enable Red’s fans to take over LFC on a model very similar to the fan-member’ ownership at Barcelona.”

The ‘Share Liverpool FC’ Group are proposing that 100,000 Liverpool fans buy individual member shares at GBP 5,000 each, producing GBP 500 million to purchase the Club and start the building of the new stadium.

Andy Burnham, the new UK secretary for culture, media and sport has described the move as a "fascinating development." Burnham was one of those who set-up Supporters Direct, an organisation with the aim to encourage supporters to take a greater share ownership in their own clubs.

"Obviously we'll wait to see details but this is a fascinating development and it will be really important to see how it works. "It had been a great success in the Football League and lower and this development will test the water in the Premier League."

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