A True Football Hero!

[Foxholer]

A couple of days late, but....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30816404

Football at the highest level seems just too big for these folk now, but it demonstrates the passion it can promote!

Sir John Hall and Jack Walker were others, though it's debatable whether their money didn't have too much influence - or did it just happen at the same time as Sky was exploding!

RIP Sir Jack!

 

[Liverbirdie]

Sounds like a throwback to when clubs were owned by the local butcher and the likes.

An amazing gesture to sell what he'd built for a tenner, but ensure the clubs future by insisting that Morgan put at least 30Mill in.

I remember when they nearly/did went bust after building the new stand (the oldest one now) back in the 80's.

 

[pbrown7582]

The local butcher who used to put dodgy meat in the pies .... :mmm:



Not sure there is a massive difference between Roman and john Hall/jack walker but that's another debate.

But fair play to Jack Hayward genuine local hero.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Jack Hayward and Jack Walker ploughed their own money into their clubs, lost lots but didn't care because they loved their clubs. John Hall put some of his own money into Newcastle, not much though, certainly loved the club, but made a very tidy sum when it was sold to Mike Ashley, he was the major sharholder although Freddie Shepherd was the Chairman at the time. The toon were in a very bad way when Ashley took on the club. Not defending Ashley but Hall was not a football philanthropist, he was a businessman out to make money and he succeeded. Not to be classed alongside Hayward and Walker.