Everton Football Club
Bill Kenwright is the current chairman of his boyhood team Everton Football Club, where he used to watch them in the "boys pen" section of Goodison Park. He succeeded Littlewoods director Philip Carter in the role. Kenwright has been on the Everton board since 1989 and became the second largest shareholder in 1999 when Peter Johnson sold his shareholding in the club after the Football Association told to him sell his interests in either Tranmere Rovers or Everton as he was breaking the FA's rules. He became the largest stakeholder in the club in 2004.
Scottish international forward Andy Gray reported in his autobiography that the Everton board were ready to offer Gray the job as manager in August 1997, but Bill Kenwright, then director, had wanted to appoint Howard Kendall as manager for a third time. Gray would decide not to become Everton manager and Kendall was appointed.
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