‘I suffer a lot’: Villarreal owner Fernando Roig on not enjoying games and the prospect of Liverpool
It will be a tense time for club’s 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 n…
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