Liverpool investigation

LIVERPOOL managing director Ian Ayre is mounting an investigation into the background behind the extraordinary claims in a fan’s blog, written under the alter- ego Duncan Jenkins, alleging serious harassment by the club’s director of communications Jen Chang.

Ayre is due to speak to Jenkins — whose real name is Sean — as well as Chang and others involved in an unseemly episode which started when Jenkins started publicising information Chang believed must have come from inside Anfield. Chang describes Jenkins’s allegations about threats made at a genuine meeting in Manchester as ‘fictitious nonsense’ but his position looks vulnerable if Ayre decides otherwise.