William P. Foley II

So yeah, when I went to Bournemouth last week, again, completely different scale to Barcelona, but they're trying to do that.

Other owner Bill Foley was talking about how that's the key to unlocking revenue, essentially, and growing your fan base.

You want to offer more things rather than 90 minutes of football, but that's very difficult to do, I think, for Villa games.

So, yeah, just sort of linking it, I guess, to both clubs.

There's two groups.

One is Jerry Colangelo, former Phoenix Suns owner, general manager, ran the show there, and also Bill Foley is together with him.

Those two are together.

And then there's Nancy Walton, and she has some people with her.

or october december 22.

by Bill Foley and his consortium and a few months prior to that you'll remember they got battered at Anfield they got beaten 9-0 and Scott Parker was subsequently sacked and they appointed Gary O'Neill on an interim basis and then And then he signed a contract and then was sacked at the end of the season.

But since Bill Foley has taken him, they've actually won six times away from home against equivalents to top six teams.

Obviously, three of those are Manchester United.

I don't know the specific number, but I'm fairly confident we've not won six times probably in my lifetime away from home at those teams.

But we've definitely not won six times in the last three or four years.

I know that for sure.

And I think it kind of proves that Sooners... as soon as you kind of have a complete change from the top and they kind of set the precedent from the top and the tone and so on that you can really set off on on a completely different front altogether but i use the ball comparison specifically because um we're now at a stage where the under the freaking group and under david moyes and then since since angus canary although he's been here for one less transfer window we've had four transfer windows under tfg and david moyes and if the Balogun transfer and it's a big if in fairness who knows the impact he would have had on the club this season although I think at this point I would say minimal because I don't think he's played at all for Monaco um since that so obviously I think the club made the right decision and not proceeding with that transfer um But in Bournemouth's first four transfer windows under Bill Foley and his ownership scheme, they spent £265 million on transfers alone.

And lastly, Grove Mill, which again, is part of a big conglomerate of businesses, if you like.

Bill Foley at the helm there.

And one thing with the Foley Wine Group and the Foley Wines, They tend to throw wild cards and throw curveballs where a cheaper entry level one like this actually has high, high quality fruit.

Fruit that most wineries would reserve for their reserves.

Now, I've chosen two from their gold medal winners.

And again, this is a little bit more, a little bit of a difficult one as well, just because, you know, there's, you know, it, It's very easy to find really good Pinot Noir in New Zealand and so to pick a trophy winner out of the calibre of Pinot Noir that there was and I just decided on these two and I wasn't going to list 10 of them because I'd be here all day.

One was the Vavasal Papa, now I included this because, again, like the Grove Mill, it's owned by Bill Foley and they do, you know, tend to consolidate fruit into whatever brand to

win trophies.