David Richard Moores was a British football executive, chairman of Liverpool FC from 1991 to 2007 and later the club's honorary life president.
14 Facts About David Moores
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David Moores became chairman of Liverpool FC on 18 September 1991.
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David Moores's uncle, Sir John Moores, was chairman of Everton FC, although he was a small shareholder.
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John Moores created Littlewoods and made the Moores family one of the wealthiest in the UK.
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However, David Moores increasingly sought external investment to help the club develop a new ground, and ended up selling it in 2007, to American investors Tom Hicks and George Gillett, in preference to Sheikh Mohammed and DIC.
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In 2010, David Moores said that "significant shareholders like Granada and Steve Morgan were insistent the board of Liverpool FC should accept the Gillett and Hicks offer and left me in no doubt about my legal duty to accept the offer".
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David Moores called on Gillett and Hicks to step aside and find a suitable buyer for the club.
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David Moores wrote: "I call upon them now to stand back, accept their limitations as joint owners, acknowledge their role in the club's current demise, and stand aside, with dignity".
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Under the chairmanship of David Moores, Liverpool had a turbulent period between 1991 and 1994 under manager Graeme Souness.
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When David Moores sacked Souness in January 1994, it was the first time a Liverpool manager had been sacked since 1956.
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Under David Moores, Liverpool went through their most barren spell for three decades.
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David Moores's first wife Kathy Anders was a beauty queen and model, who became Miss England in 1974.
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David Moores was married to wife Marge in 1983 until her death in 2022.
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David Moores died at the age of 76 on 22 July 2022, just weeks after Marge's death.