Jack Walker
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Oct 31, 2026
Kelly SomersHOST
Mm.
Alan ShearerGUEST
And I remember sitting in the Haydock Thistle Hotel in 1992, and Jack Walker, Kenny Dalglish, Ray Harford, who's the coach, and Robert Coar, who's the chairman, I remember them saying to me, "We will win the league, Premier League, within four years." And I just thought, "Wow, that was a big statement for little old Blackburn."
Kelly SomersHOST
Mm.
Alan ShearerGUEST
Who had just come up via the playoffs.
RobertAUDIENCE
Chelsea had 10 years at the top because Abramovich could spend what he wanted.
RobertAUDIENCE
I mean, Jack Walker did exactly the same thing with the Blackburn team.
RobertAUDIENCE
I mean, they would never have got anywhere near winning the...
RobertAUDIENCE
the Premier League or whatever it was at the time if it hadn't been for Jack Walker that sort of thing has always gone on I just think that the Premier League has created a problem that they never needed to create and in terms of the global product I think that Man City are better for the global product than what Man United are
Dotun AdebayoHOST
that's a valid argument I think I'm going to ask everybody that as well and Robert thank you very much in terms of the global product are Manchester City despite all the 114 charges better Then Manchester United, who just keep delivering a poor, shoddy product, as James, you yourself said, at least in the last match against Bournemouth, which is better for the global footballing product, if that makes sense, or for the Premier League, which would you rather have? A failing Manchester United playing like they've only ever seen a round ball once.
Dotun AdebayoHOST
or Manchester City winning everything inside, but, you know, being a little bit, let's say, quick-handed.
David GreenGUEST
There was never any question about that.
David GreenGUEST
They were brought in after Jack Walker won the premiership by buying it.
David GreenGUEST
They were brought in after Abramovich came to England and started to spend... what looked like the sort of money that was going to keep the premiership at Chelsea for 2020.
David GreenGUEST
They were brought in to keep City and Chelsea down.
Simon JordanHOST
They were owned by an oligarch that had more money than God, more money than anyone had ever seen in football.
Oliver HoltGUEST
Yeah, I mean, so did Jack Walker.
Oliver HoltGUEST
And I suppose that system that you're talking about, Simon, and obviously you're way, way ahead of me with this stuff, but it's like what they would call in the States, I think in the NFL, they call that a luxury tax or that kind of thing where you're allowed to spend over your limit.
Oliver HoltGUEST
But you get taxed
Tim SherwoodGUEST
And he'd come out.
Tim SherwoodGUEST
I remember watching it on a Sunday morning, and he'd got relieved of his duties, and he blamed me for being too instrumental with the players and, and with Jack Walker.
Jamie CarragherHOST
Fair?
Tim SherwoodGUEST
No, not at all.
Tim SherwoodGUEST
Not in a million years.
Jamie CarragherHOST
So-
Tim SherwoodGUEST
Jack Walker and Gary Neville, right?
Jamie CarragherHOST
Yeah.
TimHOST
What's the current state of play with them at the moment?
Mark KitchenGUEST
Yeah, I mean, it's crazy to think they've owned it for a significantly long period of time, more than Jack Walker ever owned Blackburn Rovers.
Mark KitchenGUEST
How many years now, then, are we looking at? So it was 2010 when they took over, so around 16 years.
Mark KitchenGUEST
They appeared...
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Mark KitchenGUEST
British football teams and playing with them? Is this a thing? What's going to happen if they do pull out? The fact that they've stuck around, fair play to them for me.
Mark KitchenGUEST
And I think you can now see, now you're in the Championship, you can see a way that they might potentially get you in the Premier League and then potentially make a profit, which is absolutely madness when you think back to originally.
Mark KitchenGUEST
So, listen, from a Rovers perspective, we had Jack Walker, who was a boyhood Blackburn Rovers fan, made his money and put it into his football team, that should still be allowed to happen for me.
Mark KitchenGUEST
If I went and was lucky enough to win the EuroMillions and wanted to waste it on Blackburn Rovers, I should be allowed to do it.
Jonathan NorthcroftGUEST
Go on, Gaz.
Martin SamuelGUEST
That Jack Walker scenario, isn't it, where once he was funding the club and doing brilliantly well.
Martin SamuelGUEST
I, I was interested.
Martin SamuelGUEST
I did this a couple of weeks ago.
Graham RuthvenGUEST
But yes, you fast forward to Roman Bramwich and that's like an entirely different type of businessman who's investing in Premier League clubs.
Taylor RockwellHOST
Like in the early 90s, you have Jack Walker at Blackburn.
Taylor RockwellHOST
Yes, he's Blackburn, yeah.
Taylor RockwellHOST
And he's very wealthy, like 600 million pounds, I think was his estimated net worth at the time of the acquisition, makes his money in steel, but is still local or relatively local.
Graham RuthvenGUEST
They start outspending everyone to the point that it's kind of like warping the league.
Graham RuthvenGUEST
Obviously, this had happened before with Blackburn Rovers.
Graham RuthvenGUEST
Walker, right? That's his name? Yeah, Jack Walker.
Graham RuthvenGUEST
Yeah, Jack Walker.
Graham DunnHOST
And it's interesting, the team we're doing tonight, I think we'll touch upon the whole ownership side of it because this is kind of an era in which it's almost one of the last times that I kind of British owner was able to pull a team up.
Graham DunnHOST
There's this kind of era where you have people like Dave Whelan and Jack Walker and Steve Gibson who kind of were able to revive the fortunes of local clubs and clubs that they supported.
Graham DunnHOST
That's probably not something you're going to see in the modern era of the game.
Graham DunnHOST
But yes, we are going across the Thames Valley today.
Jamie RooneyHOST
When I was going back to the ownership, this period is quite fascinating when you look at how ownership has changed hands in the English football game over the last four years.
Jamie RooneyHOST
And this period is really the transitional period.
Jamie RooneyHOST
So you still have got Dave Whelans and John Modewski, Jack Walker and Steve Gibson, who are recognizable figures in terms of running football clubs.
Jamie RooneyHOST
And generally, you know, from the 80s through to 2005, it was normally, you know, a local businessman, somebody who had a car dealership or, you know, a business in the local area that would have the football club on the side.
Stuart DeaconsHOST
it was the only time, I remember they were talking about it, it was the only club in the country back in the Premier League days that had a McDonald's walk-through rather than a drive-through.
Stuart DeaconsHOST
But yeah, but obviously it's the club, the Jack Walker club.
Stuart DeaconsHOST
Bill and,
Nick DraperHOST
yeah,
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