I'll never be able to see this from Timbo's Goals perspective, given where I live and was born...but as a Bostonian, the comparison with moving the Red Sox commercial center to NYC doesn't really work. Yes, it'd piss plenty of people off (though a much, much higher percentage likely wouldn't give a damn), but the move itself simply wouldn't make sense. Even if you look at it from a purely logistical point of view...just think of the fact that Hogan can expect to need to travel not only to the rest of Europe (from Liverpool the farthest you can fly direct is Cyprus) but to the US, China, Japan, SE Asia, South America, India, etc. You can get to all of those places from London, just as you can get anywhere a Red Sox commercial director would need to go from Boston.
I dunno. The one thing that bothers me (and would bother me a lot more if I had been lucky enough to be born in Liverpool) is the already-mentioned local financial aspect of things. All of the wining-and-dining that incoming groups will be doing will be putting money into the pockets of London restaurants, car services, hotels, etc. when it should be doing so for those in Liverpool. Yeah, we're not talking about billions of pounds here, but it's all important in the long run.
