Inside the mind of John W. Henry, Liverpool’s ‘semi-detached’ owner

“Across the sporting institutions with which he is most associated, there was a sense of John W. Henry being everywhere and nowhere last weekend. On Saturday afternoon at Anfield, before Liverpool’s victory over Crystal Palace, the stadium was decorated with yellow cards and an image of him sticking his fingers in his ears. It was a protest at a potential 13 per cent rise in ticket prices over the next three years, depending on inflation, but Henry was not on Merseyside to see it. At the same time that protest was taking place...