Liverpool FC: Flub-a-club

Teams are supposed to share the burden and divide the grief. But they sometimes just create more of both, as in the case of George Gillett and Tom Hicks. The US sport investors together bought Liverpool FC, the British football club, for £219m last year. Though the Reds are ably competing on the pitch, the ownership duo is tripping over itself. After initially presenting a united front with Hicks, Gillett now wants out. He claims his partner threatened to block the sale of his half the club to a...