In line with LFC’s The Red Way sustainability programme, the Nike kit is sustainably made, with on-pitch and replica jerseys constructed with 100 per cent recycled polyester fabric, which is made from recycled plastic bottles.

My position became untenable,” he said. “The structure we had was dysfunctional and something had to give.” Champions League winner out, Danish league winner in The arrival of billionaire Roman Abramovich at Chelsea in 2003 had changed the landscape of English football. In comparison Moores was a pauper and Liverpool were in danger of being cast adrift from their big-spending rivals. And off it Liverpool was on the brink of financial meltdown amid talk of going into administration and landing a nine-point penalty.

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Just how far the club had fallen was underlined by the fact they swapped a Champions League and La Liga winning manager for Roy Hodgson, whose last honour had been the Danish title a decade earlier. The idea that he was a safe pair of hands to guide the club through some tough times was brutally exposed. In May 2009 Liverpool finished second in the Premier League. Twelve months later they were seventh and Benitez was on his way out of Anfield.

How had it come to this? How did the most successful British football club in history fall so far and so fast? DIC out - and in comes Gillett Fowler said: “I have fond memories of the 1995-96 season because of the iconic white and green away strip and for scoring my most goals in one season. I’m a huge fan of the new fresh take on the white and green away kit.” However, Benitez and Purslow were soon at war with the manager complaining of being undermined and he was fuming that the cost of new contracts for players was coming out of a dwindling transfer kitty. Plastic bottles are collected, cleaned and melted down to produce a high-quality yarn for manufacturing and is part of Nike’s wider Move to Zero initiative, with football apparel leading the way in sustainability. In response the bank agreed to one final six month extension of the loan but in return the owners had to agree to the appointment of an independent chairman to sell the club. British Airways chairman Martin Broughton was installed and crucially he had the casting vote on the board.It soon became clear that they had very different philosophies on how the club should be run,” Parry said. “One was hands off, the other hands on; one courted publicity, the other didn’t.” The men’s team will debut this kit against Leicester City during the pre-season tour in Singapore, while the women’s team will also debut it during their pre-season matches in late August.