In 2022, he, along with Lewis Hamilton and Serena Williams, was involved in a bid to purchase Chelsea F. And now you’ve got the Saudis coming in to Newcastle, which will make it six and Tottenham are always sort of on the fringe. Viv went on to a Central School and we were expecting to do the same after the 11 Plus exam as our form positions did not suggest we would be amongst the small number expected to get into Grammar School. Every child suffers anxiety from being the ‘new boy or girl’ and the first morning is the most intimidating of all.

We first saw a real racehorse when Dad took us to Epsom one August Bank Holiday to see the ‘Amateur Derby’ when we were sixteen. This time we were at the North End, almost behind the goal and not far from where we have our current season tickets in the Matthew Harding Stand. We had races for 2-Y-O’s, 3-Y-O’s, and older horses, originally just on the flat and then started some jump racing.Totopoly started a lifetime of interest in racing, but I never imagined I would get to be so involved in the world of horseracing.

Chief executives such as Ivan Gazidis, at Arsenal, seem to understand what a football club is, that it is not "just a business like any other", the spivvy Thatcherite philistinism which dominated through the 1990s. Steve matched my performance with two passes – Latin and French (he passed the oral) – and one fail (maths). The Premier League being the most competitive league in Europe, effectively a European Super League, is nice for the Premier League itself, but even Broughton admits that as a fan it could make it tricky for supporters of teams eager for silverware. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The lifelong Chelsea fan and former British Airways chairman successfully oversaw the sale of Liverpool Football Club in 2010, having been appointed as temporary chairman by the Royal Bank of Scotland as the Reds teetered on the brink of administration under Tom Hicks and George Gillett’s ownership in 2010.With the NESV deal agreed and Hicks and Gillett having sought to block it by sacking Purslow and Ayre and replacing them with Hicks's own son, Mack, and Mack's assistant, Lori Kay McCutcheon, Broughton took the strategic decision to go to court, and go public. So far Jim Ratcliffe, the British billionaire owner of petrochemicals giant INEOS, is the only confirmed bidder. Another big day was Taquin Du Seuil’s win in the JLT at the Festival, while Oscar Time, my first ever runner in the Grand National [co-owned with twin brother Steve and Robert Waley- Cohen] just about got his nose in front at the elbow before finishing runner-up to Ballabriggs.

Dan is joined by Sir Martin Broughton to talk about his new book, ‘Whenever I hear That Song’, which chronicle’s his time as Liverpool Chairman and his role in passing custodianship of the club over to Liverpool’s current owners, FSG. Sure, they had a board majority, but directors can normally only recommend a deal to shareholders, which, as half-each owners of Liverpool, the American pair could surely reject. If there is an investor that wants to come, we'd certainly be willing to look at that and we wouldn't be at all surprised if we didn't get either and we continued to hold it. Such was the ultimate respect of the Liverpool supporters for him that the Kop sang with gusto " There's only one Martin Broughton.Westminster City Grammar streamed classes and although Steve and my results were virtually identical, we were not always in the same class. Then [Roman] Abramovich came in and made it three [clubs], then [Sheikh] Mansour came in [at Manchester City] and made it four. The reason Liverpool is worth what it is and the reason Manchester United and Chelsea are worth what they are is because the Premier League is the Premier League. The formal process sets dates by which you want bids and if you want to bid come see us, get an information memorandum, get the facts, go into a data room and look at the facts, etcetera.

Whenever I Hear That Song is a fascinating story told with all the pace of one of his many winners galloping up the home straight at Cheltenham. Broughton said the fact the judge, Mr Justice Floyd, agreed, ruling that Hicks and Gillett committed "the clearest possible breach" of their agreement with Royal Bank of Scotland, had won Broughton, Purslow and Ayre their case. C. appointed Martin Broughton to be their new chairman, despite the fact that he is a lifelong Chelsea supporter. C. board won the right to sell the club in a High Court case against Hicks and Gillett on 13 October 2010. The ruling was described by the fans' group Kop Faithful as "It's like a huge cloud has been lifted off us.

But they are already foreign billionaires with a pad in Knightsbridge or Chelsea or Kensington and they came to London fairly regularly and when they came to London it was to watch Chelsea. It’s easy to read and told with a sense of humour - you end the book feeling like you have learned quite a lot about how those industries work - some of which are quite dysfunctional!