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Dave Powell

Liverpool decision that prompted FSG's £80m plan and will lead to new club record

When Liverpool welcomed Leicester City to Anfield on September 10, 2016, it would be a game that would draw the biggest home crowd for the Reds for some 40 years.

A crowd of 53,075 were in attendance for the clash against the Foxes, the largest to have been inside Anfield since the Reds hosted West Ham United on May 14, 1977, when the congregation stood at 55,675.

It was a game that marked the opening of the redeveloped Main Stand at Anfield, a development that owners Fenway Sports Group saw from early on as vital to raising revenues at the club, both on matchdays and commercially.

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