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John Moores thwarted in bid to buy Everton

Soccer can be a fickle master, the score remaining 0-0 as you continually pepper the post and crossbar, only for your opponent to score against the run of play in the final minute to win.

Doesn’t John Moore know.

The former San Diego Padres owner has failed in his bid to buy a team in England’s famed Premier League for a second time, with Everton confirming Saturday that Iranian-born billionaire Farhad Moshiri purchasing a controlling stake in the Liverpool club just as Moores was finalizing a deal.

On Friday, Morshiri suddenly sold his shares in London giant Arsenal, worth an estimated $277 million, and bought 49.