Shouting distance: Henry, Werner cheer Liverpool title

They had waited 10 years for this, just the last of three decades of frustration for Liverpool supporters that included tragedy and heartbreak yet rarely silenced the passionate scouse voices singing in the Kop.

When the final whistle sounded at London's Stamford Bridge, John Henry was in Brookline, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, where he's been in lock down with wife Linda. Tom Werner was on Cape Cod.

They had restored Liverpool to the top, just like they had with the Boston Red Sox. Only because of the coronavirus pandemic, they had to watch from afar.

Didn't matter that they couldn't be there.

Didn't matter that Liverpool's players couldn't celebrate on the field and watched from the patio of the Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa as Manchester City fell 2-1 to Chelsea at London's Stamford Bridge on Thursday night. Players sprayed beer and bubbly all the same when Liverpool clinched its 19th league title but first since 1990 — two years before the Premier League launched.

“There can be no disappointment in winning the Premier League!” Henry wrote in an email to The Associated Press.

Henry and Werner would have had to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the U.K., but they thought it was important to quarantine at home and knew they would not witness Liverpool's title firsthand.

They partnered to head the group in 2002 that bought the Red Sox. Boston had not won a World Series title since 1918, was thought to be cursed since selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, and was hampered by tiny and antiquated Fenway Park.

They restored the ballpark with Larry Lucchino and Janet Marie Smith, lifting it back to its perch among baseball's crown jewels and expanding capacity to generate more revenue for a higher payroll. They became the most successful Major...

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