It was just after half past nine on Saturday night that Liverpool's season reached crisis point.
With the Reds defence resembling something of a wet paper towel, Crysencio Summerville, a Dutchman born after the last time Leeds United won at Anfield, scored with 89 minutes on the clock to condemn Liverpool to a second consecutive Premier League defeat to that of a team in the bottom three.
There may as well have been a fire drill at Anfield, such was the numbers of home fans who made for the exits, but the real alarm bells should have been ringing over in Boston, where John Henry's teatime would have been ruined by the result across the Atlantic.
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Or so you'd hope.
Because the last time Henry was in town, it was to watch Liverpool put nine goals past Bournemouth to register their first win of the season after two draws and defeat to Manchester United. He must have wondered what all the fuss was about.
But it proved to be a false dawn in what has quickly become a crisis campaign for Jurgen Klopp's side.
There have been three more league defeats, two more draws and most worryingly, just three more victories since that sunny day in August.
And with a loss to Leeds on Saturday night, Liverpool's troubles on the road have spilled into their home form as negativity spread to the stands.
There is a lack of confidence in the squad, frustration in the dugout and now dissatisfaction in the stands as patience finally snapped among supporters.
And for FSG, that anger will be directed their way after long-held suspicions about their ambition.
For some supporters, they will finally feel justified in their 'FSG Out' Twitter handles, quick to spread their message of 'I told you so' as Liverpool's problems worsen.
The truth is that FSG are far from bad owners. The opposite, in fact. Anyone who has witnessed the change at Anfield, which is now a modern stadium as good as any in Europe, knows that.
Throw in a £50m training complex as well as the healthy state Liverpool as a club now find themselves in and the Reds have a lot to be thankful for.
Ownership of a football club is about much more than what happens in the transfer market, after all.
Could and should they have invested more on transfers in recent years? Absolutely.
But the reality is that those not inside the corridors of power at Anfield will never really know how much FSG's strict financial policy impacted on Liverpool transfers as much as, say, Klopp's loyalty to his players or the club's careful and patient approach to recruitment.
Besides, the idea that owners can be traded like a striker whose goals have dried up is simply ludicrous. The sale of a club is a long process and, as Liverpool found out in 2007, nobody really knows what happens when it comes out the other side. There isn't a queue of sensible new openers with a bottomless pit of cash ready to step in at a moment's notice.
Newsflash; owners such as Sheikh Mansour or PSG's Qatari group are extremely rare. And fraught with wider issues that surely the majority of Liverpool fans would rather not see envelop their club, even if they did start spending on transfers in the extreme.
But this is no defence of Liverpool's owners.
It may be far from 'FSG Out', but more like FSG pull your finger out.
Because, as they have done in the past, it's time for them to hold their hands up and admit mistakes have been made.
As Paul Gorst argued in his Liverpool verdict from Anfield after the defeat to Leeds, the Reds' problems could get far worse if, as Klopp fears, they could miss out on Champions League football next year.
Indeed, FSG have Liverpool on sound financial footing but, in a sporting sense, missing out on the top four could see damage inflicted on the side that might take years to reverse.
This isn't American sport. Seasons cannot be written off with a reset and a change in the summer. Poor campaigns have far reaching consequences. And their ownership may come under increasing scrutiny should that happen.
Henry need only to call a fellow American, Joel Glazer, to find out what happens when success on the pitch dries up.
For now, the greatest decision FSG have made since arriving at Anfield, appointing Klopp as manager, remains their greatest hope of getting out of this mess.
But Klopp has already admitted what he hopes from his bosses for transfer windows to come.
Speaking earlier this season, he said: "Do I feel I've been backed? Yes. This summer? What does it mean 'backed'? Look what I don't like about it now is if I say 'I am not sure' then we make a massive thing about it. But it's not [a big deal], I realise as well that it is always like this. Is it always easy? No. Do we discuss this kind of thing in public? Of course not. Why would we? We don't start now with it.
"So let me say it like this, from time to time I would be ready to risk a bit more but like I say I don't decide that. And that is then fine because I am like this, we try everything until someone tells us 'here's now the deadline, we can't do anything anymore' and that we can't. And in that moment, I don't think one second back and that's what we all have to do now."
It's not as if Liverpool haven't spent big in the transfer market. Darwin Nunez, Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker are proof enough of that. This is no sob story. No shoestring budget.
But faced with the financial might of an increasing number of clubs, Klopp is right to want Liverpool to take a chance every now and again.
Klopp isn't a man to make excuses. And he's fiercely loyal to those who have delivered success in the recent past. But if he wants more risks then so be it. He's not often wrong.
FSG would do well to listen to him. Starting in January.
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