i feel i've got to inform you of a few facts before people starting taking your article at fact value.
firstly, you are correct that anfield is a deprived area of liverpool and that the delay to the new stadium is stopping the re-development work in the area from taking place - hence much of the resentment from liverpool fans towards george gillett and tom hicks.
however, the houses you saw around the stadium are in fact owned by the club. they were bought by the club from liverpool city council many years ago with the thought of a stadium expansion in mind which has become unworkable since for various reasons. The houses have been kept by the club and boarded up because to let people live in them with the volume of people walking through these streets on match days would be extremely un-safe. The area is not as bad as it looks around anfield as you have to look past the houses directly next to stadium to see
that said george gillett and tom hicks can get the hell out of our club and our sport! they know nothing about it and were naive enough to think they could afford to invest in a sport they are not successful enough to afford
