Not such a special relationship: US owners' checkered history of investing in English soccer
CNN
They are the US billionaire owners of multiple sports teams, but you don't often see the likes of Arsenal's Stan Kroenke, Liverpool's John W. Henry and the Glazer family, which runs Manchester United, popping into the stadiums of their clubs to watch the teams they bought.
Fans say their hands off approach shows the US owners have little or no understanding of why English soccer fans care so passionately about the clubs they support. One former Manchester United chief executive -- Peter Kenyon -- agrees with that characterization of his former team's owners.
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