One emerging problem with the "benefactor model" of club ownership is "what happens next?"
Blackburn Rovers have struggled with this problem since their 1990s benefactor, steel magnate Jack
Walker, died in 2000. And current owners Venky's are not, yet anyway, the solution. Walker, who
famously took Rovers to/bought the 1995 Premier League title, made some post-benefactor plans,
forming the "Jack Walker Settlement" (JWS), a trust based in the Jersey tax haven, where he lived
from 1974, when his riches attracted taxes which the great benefactor was.
Last September, 29-year-old Carolyn Still became the youngest CEO in English football when she
took the helm at Conference side Mansfield Town. Two weeks after her appointment, she was engaged
to club chairman John Radford (this handsome devil), and it has emerged that she used to work as an
escort under the name 'Luella'.
