The Guardian · 26d ago

‘I suffer a lot’: Villarreal owner Fernando Roig on not enjoying games and the prospect of Liverpool | Sid Lowe

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It will be a tense time for Europe’s longest serving president, despite the Champions League game at Anfield offering a symbol of how far they have come The first time Fernando Roig watched Villarreal play as their president, he sat in the stand at a tiny whitewashed ground that had concrete fever and was half empty. It was a Sunday night in the second division, they lost 3-0 against Badajoz, and he didn’t enjoy it much. But then, he never enjoys it much. Even on Tuesday at Anfield, he will not: into his 30th year, the longest presidency in Europe, that is about the only thing that hasn’t…

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