John W. Henry
Owner of the Boston Red Sox
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2002
Preceded by	John Harrington
Owner of Liverpool Football Club
Incumbent
Assumed office October 15, 2010
Preceded by	Tom Hicks & George N. Gillett, Jr.
Personal details
Born	(1949-09-13) September 13, 1949 (age 62) Quincy, Illinois, U.S
Alma mater	Victor Valley High School Victor Valley College University of California
Profession	Businessman

John William Henry II (born September 13, 1949) is an American futures and foreign exchange trading advisor who founded John W. Henry & Company (JWH). He is the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C., and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing. In March 2006, Boston Magazine estimated his net worth at $1.1 billion, but noted that his company had recently experienced difficulties.^[1] In May 2007, reports in the Wall Street Journal^[2] and Bloomberg noted further difficulties with the firm.

Early life[link]

John William Henry II was born on September 13, 1949^[3] in Quincy, Illinois.^[4] His parents were farmers, and he split his time growing up between Illinois and Arkansas. His asthmatic condition^[5] at the age of 15 prompted his family to move to Apple Valley, California.^[6] After his graduation from Victor Valley High School in Victorville, he attended Victor Valley College^[7], then the University of California (at Riverside, Irvine, and Los Angeles), where he majored in philosophy but did not graduate^[8] — partly the result of performing on the road in two rock and roll bands, Elysian Fields and Hillary.^[9]

Henry started trading corn and soybean futures, to learn the basics of hedging the price risk of holding an inventory of these commodities, whether in storage or out in the field. In 1976, a commodities broker at Reynolds Securities asked him to advise other farmers, but he declined. After spending a summer in Norway with his first wife, Mai, Henry developed a mechanical trend following method for managing a futures trading account. He tested his trend-reversal method—which was never out of the market but always held a position (either long or short) in every one of the markets in the account's "basket" of commodities—"using his own money" (in the words of his marketing literature of 1983). When that test proved successful, he founded JWH in 1981^[10], opened a small office across the street from the airport in Irvine, California, and began marketing his management to the largest commodity brokerage firms in America. That proved so successful by 1983, that he moved to considerably larger quarters at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. In 1989, Henry moved to Westport, Connecticut and Henry moved to Boca Raton, Florida. Two years later, Henry established a second office in Boca Raton.^[11]

John W. Henry & Company, Inc.[link]

JWH was established in 1981, and began taking retail clients in 1982.

The firm's management methods make mechanical, non-discretionary trading decisions in response to systematic determinations of reversals in each market's direction, with the explicit intention of precluding not only human emotion, but also any subjective evaluation of such things as the so-called fundamentals, to trigger each decision to be long or short each market, or not.^[12]

Baseball[link]

John W. Henry grew up a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, especially their star Stan Musial. After acquiring his fortune, his first foray into professional sports was in purchasing a AAA minor league team – the Tucson Toros of the Pacific Coast League in 1989. He was also one of the founders of the Senior Professional Baseball Association (a winter league in Florida composed of retired Major League players). Henry co-owned the winning team in 1989–1990 – the West Palm Beach Tropics managed by former Boston Red Sox Impossible Dream (1967) manager, Dick Williams. He sold his interest in 1990 and the league went out of business the following year. In 1990, Henry negotiated to purchase the Orlando Magic NBA team, for a short time was the lead general for an expansion team which became the Colorado Rockies, headed a group attempting to land an NHL expansion bid for South Florida which ended up going to Tampa Bay, pre-dating South Florida's more successful NHL expansion bid soon after by Wayne Huizenga. Subsequently, Henry negotiated to buy the Miami Heat and later the New Jersey Nets.

Henry entered Major League Baseball with his purchase of a small interest in the New York Yankees in 1991. Henry became the sole owner of the Florida Marlins in 1999, purchasing the Major League club from Huizenga for a reported $158,000,000. In January 2002 Henry sold the Marlins in a multi-franchise deal to Jeffrey Loria then owner of the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals). Simultaneously, Henry led a purchase of the Boston Red Sox with partners Tom Werner and the New York Times Company from the Yawkey Trust headed by John Harrington. Henry, as principal owner and, Werner, as chairman, assembled a front office team headed up by Larry Lucchino with the express goal of "breaking the Curse of the Bambino." He accomplished this feat in the 2004 World Series, against his former childhood favorite Cardinals, and again in 2007, against a franchise with which he had pre-expansion involvement, the Rockies. He is also responsible for saving Fenway Park from the wrecking ball. The previous Red Sox owners had planned on building a new Fenway Park next door, but Henry chose to keep and renovate (including new seats over the Green Monster) the current Fenway Park, which celebrated its centennial in 2012.

New England Sports Ventures[link]

Henry and Werner established New England Sports Ventures in 2002. The company owns the Boston Red Sox, 80% of the New England Sports Network (which also carries the NHL's Boston Bruins), Fenway Park, Fenway Sports Group – a sports marketing and management firm, and various real estate properties surrounding Fenway Park.

In 2009, the company made its first foray into European sports with an unsuccessful bid for the French Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille.^[13]

Liverpool F.C.[link]

In October 2010 the Fenway Sports Group took over Liverpool F.C.. As of May 2011. Tom Hicks and George N. Gillett, Jr. announced that they would sue for at least $1.6 billion for the "extraordinary swindle" they suffered.^[14] On 26 February 2012 Liverpool won the 2012 Football League Cup Final at Wembley, London, beating Welsh side Cardiff City 3–2 on penalties after the game finished 1–1 after 90 minutes and 2–2 after extra time. This was Liverpool's first trophy since the 2006 FA Cup Final win over West Ham United on 13 May 2006 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. In May 2012 he made a controversial decision by sacking manager and club icon Kenny Dalglish citing the club's poor league results. This was widely regarded as a poor decision by football experts such as BBC expert Alan Hanson given Dalglish's success in lifting the club from 4 points above the relegation zone to a cup win.^[15][16]

NASCAR[link]

In 2007, Henry's Fenway Sports Group bought a 50% stake in the Jack Roush's Roush Fenway Racing stock car racing team.^[17] Driver Matt Kenseth won the Auto Club 500 at the California Speedway in February 2007 marking Henry's first win as an owner. In February 2009 the team won their first Daytona 500 with Matt Kenseth.

iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations[link]

In September 2004 Henry and David Kaemmer founded iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations for developing a racing simulation service aimed at both real-world racers and racing simulator enthusiasts. The service was launched in August 2008.

In Popular Culture[link]

Henry was briefly portrayed by Arliss Howard in the 2011 film Moneyball which follows Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his quest to build a winning team in 2002.

References[link]

External links[link]

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Sir Martin Faulkner Broughton (born 1947) is a British businessman who is the current chairman of British Airways and former chairman of Liverpool Football Club. He is also the Deputy President of Confederation of British Industry (having served as President from 2007 to 2009).

Early career[link]

Broughton joined British American Tobacco in 1971, becoming Finance Director in 1988, Group Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman in 1993 and, ultimately, Chairman and Chief Executive in 1998. In 1999, he also became an independent director of the British Horseracing Board, eventually succeeding Peter Saville as Chairman in July 2004, at which point he retired from his roles at BAT.

Other directorships which Broughton has held include Wiggins Teape Group 1989–90 (as Chairman), Eagle Star 1992–93 (as Chairman) and Whitbread 1993–2000 (as Non-executive Director).^[1]

Broughton was knighted in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to business.^[2][3]

British Airways Chairman[link]

Martin Broughton joined the British Airways board as a non-executive director in May 2000 became the Deputy Chairman in November 2003^[4] and became Chairman in July 2004.

Liverpool F.C. Chairman[link]

On 10 April 2010, it was announced that Liverpool FC approached Martin Broughton to be their new chairman. On 16 April, it was confirmed that he was the new chairman (despite the fact that he is a lifelong Chelsea supporter).

On 6 October 2010, it was announced that Liverpool FC was to be sold to New England Sports Ventures for the sum of £300m – significantly lower than the sums being requested by the club's existing owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett. In an attempt to scupper the deal, Tom Hicks attempted to sack Broughton's fellow directors Christian Purslow and Ian Ayre and install his son Mack Hicks and his assistant Lori Kay McCutcheon to reconstitute the board. This would give Hicks and Gillette control of the board and effectively block the sale.

However, on his appointment, Broughton had insisted that he be the only person with this right, and this clause had been installed into the articles of association of Liverpool FC.

Broughton and the rest of the Liverpool FC board won in a High Court case against Hicks and Gillett on 13 October 2010 so they could press on with the sale of the club, described by the fans' group Kop Faithful as “It’s like a huge cloud has been lifted off us.....Hicks and Gillett leave with no legacy, apart from one of chaos.”

Tote Bid[link]

In 2009, he spearheaded a private equity bid to buy The Tote as part of the government's privatisation process. The bid was made through an investment vehicle called Sports Investment Partners, with which his son Michael is also involved. The bid was one of five that successfully passed the first round of the process in January 2011^[5].

References[link]

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Roy Hodgson

Personal information
Full name	Roy Hodgson
Date of birth	(1947-08-09) 9 August 1947 (age 64)[1]
Place of birth	Croydon, England[1]
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	England (manager)
Youth career
1963–1965	Crystal Palace
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1965–1966	Crystal Palace	0	(0)
1966–1969	Tonbridge Angels
1969–1971	Gravesend & Northfleet	59	(1)
1971–1972	Maidstone United
1972–1973	Ashford Town
1973–1974	Berea Park
1974–1976	Carshalton Athletic
Teams managed
1976–1980	Halmstad
1982	Bristol City
1982	Oddevold
1983–1984	Örebro
1985–1989	Malmö FF
1990–1992	Neuchâtel Xamax
1992–1995	Switzerland
1995–1997	Internazionale
1997–1998	Blackburn Rovers
1999	Internazionale
1999–2000	Grasshopper
2000–2001	Copenhagen
2001	Udinese
2002–2004	United Arab Emirates
2004–2005	Viking
2006–2007	Finland
2007–2010	Fulham
2010–2011	Liverpool
2011–2012	West Bromwich Albion
2012–	England
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Roy Hodgson (born 9 August 1947) is an English former footballer, who is the current manager of the England national football team.

Hodgson, who has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries, guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. From 2006 to 2007, he managed the Finland national team, guiding them to their highest ever FIFA ranking of 33rd place, and coming close to qualifying for a major tournament for the first time in their history. He has been the beaten finalist in the UEFA Cup and the Europa League. Hodgson has also coached many notable club sides, including Internazionale, Blackburn Rovers, Grasshoppers, FC Copenhagen, Udinese, Fulham, Liverpool and West Brom. Hodgson served several times as a member of UEFA's technical study group at the European Championships, and was also a member of the FIFA technical study group at the 2006 World Cup.^[2] Hodgson speaks five languages and has worked as a television pundit in several of the countries in which he has coached.^[3]

On 1 May 2012, Hodgson was appointed as manager of the England national team, officially assuming his duties on 14 May.

Early life[link]

Hodgson was born in Croydon, Surrey.^[4] His mother was a baker in the town, and his father, who was an Everton fan, originally from Walton, Liverpool, worked in a chemical factory.^{[citation needed]} Hodgson's family lived in the same building as Steve Kember, one of Hodgson's schoolmates at John Ruskin Grammar School.^[4][5] The two played on the school football team, a side which also included Lennie Lawrence.^[5] Bob Houghton, who would go on to play a prominent part in Hodgson's career, joined the school in the sixth form.^[5]

Playing career[link]

Hodgson was a moderately successful youth player with Crystal Palace, but was never able to break into the first team.^[4] After leaving Crystal Palace he played non-League football for several years with Tonbridge Angels and Gravesend & Northfleet.^[6] At the age of 23 he completed training to become a fully qualified coach.^[7] He then joined Maidstone United, where he played and also served as assistant manager to Bob Houghton.^[5] In 1972 after a year at Maidstone he moved to Ashford Town,^[6] while also working as a P.E. teacher at Alleyn's School in south London.^[7] The following year he moved to Pretoria, South Africa to play for Berea Park F.C. despite the sporting boycott of South Africa in effect at the time. While in South Africa he also coached a Northern Transvaal under-13 team which included future USA-international Roy Wegerle and future Arcadia Shepherds F.C. and Moroka Swallows F.C. player Noel Cousins.^{[citation needed]} In 1974 Hodgson returned to England for his final playing spell, joining Carshalton Athletic.^[6] Again he supported himself by teaching, this time at Monks Hill Comprehensive.^[5]

Managerial career[link]

Early career[link]

Hodgson started his managerial career in 1976 at Swedish top division side Halmstad, having been recommended by then Malmö FF manager Bob Houghton.^[5] Hodgson spent five years at Halmstads, winning the league championship in 1976 and 1979. His success with Halmstad in 1976 is considered one of the biggest surprises of all time in Swedish football.^[8] The year before, Halmstad had struggled against relegation, and before the 1976 campaign began they were almost universally tipped for relegation. Hodgson himself says that "my greatest achievement would have to be the water-into-wine job at Halmstads BK."^[8] Early in his career, he was dubbed the nicest man in the world.^[9]

In 1980, he moved to Bristol City in his native England, where he was assistant manager and later manager. Due to the club's financial problems he was largely unsuccessful and was sacked after four months in charge.^[10] In 1983, Hodgson moved back to Sweden to take over Oddevold and then Örebro.^[10] In 1985, he took over at Malmö FF, which he led to five consecutive league championships, two Swedish championships (at the time the Swedish championship was decided through play-offs) and two Swedish Cups. Due to his successful time at Malmö, Hodgson is still highly appreciated by the club's fans who have unofficially named a section of the new Swedbank Stadion "Roy's Hörna" (Roy's Corner).^[11] His greatest continental achievement at Malmö was knocking the Italian champions Internazionale out of the European Cup, winning 1–0 at home and drawing 1–1 at the San Siro. Hodgson continues to be held in high regard at Malmö where he is known as "Royson".^[12] His period as manager of the club is seen^{[by whom?]} as one of the best in the club's history.

Malmö offered Hodgson a lifetime contract, but he declined, saying later that "moving to another place seemed exciting. The decision was also financial. Swedish taxes were so high that even if you were being paid reasonable money, after losing 65% in tax there wasn't a lot left."^[8] Hodgson moved to Swiss side Neuchâtel Xamax in 1990. He led Xamax to European victories over Celtic and Real Madrid.^[13]

His early coaching career was closely linked to that of his friend Bob Houghton; they worked together at Maidstone, Stranraer and Bristol City, and they both worked in Swedish football at the same time. The pair are credited with transforming Swedish football, bringing in zonal marking for the first time.^[14]

Switzerland[link]

Hodgson took over as manager of the Switzerland national team from Uli Stielike on 26 January 1992.^[15] Stielike had been the first Swiss coach to have a winning record,^[15] winning 13 of the 25 games he was in charge. As Hodgson was succeeding Stielike at the national level, Stielike took over the job Hodgson had just vacated at club level with Swiss Super League side Neuchâtel Xamax.

Hodgson took the Schweizer Nati to the 1994 World Cup, losing only one game during qualification, from a group that included Italy and Portugal. The Swiss took four points off Italy, who, managed by the successful former coach Arrigo Sacchi, went on to make it to the World Cup final and lose only on penalties. In the game in Italy, the Swiss were at one stage leading 2–0 before being pegged back to 2–2. This was Switzerland's first World Cup since 1966. At the 1994 World Cup, the Swiss finished runners-up in their group, qualifying for the Round of 16 where they lost to Spain.

The Swiss easily qualified for Euro 1996, but Hodgson left immediately after qualification, on 15 November 1995, to join Italian club Internazionale. He had in fact been doing both jobs from October of that year.^{[citation needed]} Without Hodgson, the Swiss had a difficult time at Euro 1996 losing to the Netherlands and Scotland. Switzerland finished bottom of their group with only one point from three matches.

At their peak while managed by Hodgson, Switzerland were rated the third best international side in the world, according to the FIFA World Rankings.^[8]

Internazionale[link]

Before the European Championships, Hodgson joined Italian Serie A giants Internazionale, where he worked from 1995 to 1997. With significant investment, he presided over a rebuilding phase. Inter had finished 13th and sixth in the seasons prior to his arrival. After a terrible start to the season, Hodgson was brought in and guided the club to seventh place in the 1995–96 season, qualifying for the UEFA Cup. The 1996–97 season saw Hodgson leave Inter after 14 wins, 13 draws and five defeats in Serie A, with Inter placed 3rd in the league, and he was replaced by Luigi Simoni whose side finished second in the league in the 1997–98 season and won the UEFA Cup. In 2009 Hodgson recalled his time at Inter: "We lacked stars, apart from Paul Ince. It wasn't the Inter we see today of household names. They weren't the best technically but physically they were like machines. The Premier League is like that now, but back then Italy was far ahead."^[8]

Hodgson managed to get his Inter team, containing Javier Zanetti, Youri Djorkaeff and Ince, through to the 1997 UEFA Cup Final where they played Schalke 04. Given that Inter had a recent history of winning UEFA Cup finals, with victories in both 1990 and 1994, the Italian side started as favourites. When the German underdogs won the final in Milan on penalties, Inter fans pelted Hodgson with coins and lighters.^[16]

Hodgson later admitted that, throughout his one-and-a-half seasons at Inter, there had been regular speculation that he would get the sack, but he insisted he had had the support of the owners.^[17] The directors did support him in a disagreement that he had with Roberto Carlos whilst at the club. Hodgson wanted to exploit Carlos' attacking flair by playing him in an advanced position but Carlos was adamant in his desire to play as a left back, the position that he held when playing for Brazil and to which he felt best suited.^[18] Carlos told FourFourTwo magazine in May 2005 that he spoke to club president Massimo Moratti at the time "to see if he could sort things out and it soon became clear that the only solution was to leave."^[18] Carlos subsequently departed for Real Madrid in 1996.

Blackburn Rovers[link]

In the 1997 close season, Hodgson was tempted by Jack Walker to become manager of Blackburn Rovers. Rovers had finished 13th the previous season — only two seasons after winning the title — and had been in danger of relegation. Manager Ray Harford had quit on 25 October 1996 with Blackburn winless, bottom of the Premier League and just knocked out of the Football League Cup by Division Two underdogs Stockport County. Manager Tony Parkes had been put in charge for the rest of the season, and had overseen an improvement in league form to secure survival, but it was clear that chairman Walker wanted a more experienced man to build a side capable of regaining the form of a few years earlier,^{[citation needed]} and Hodgson accepted the offer to take over.

In the 1997–98 season, his first season in charge, Blackburn finished sixth, qualifying for the UEFA Cup and appearing to be in the ascendancy, especially as they had been outsiders in the title race for more than half of the season and Hodgson had been voted Premier League Manager of the Month on two occasions; however, the team's form collapsed dramatically in the second half of the season, and it was only on the last day of the season that they secured a UEFA place.^[19]

Hodgson's second season with Blackburn did not match the relative success of the first, due to numerous injuries,^[20] dressing room unrest, the failure to find an adequate replacement for departed central defender Colin Hendry,^[21] and a succession of poor buys – notably the £7.5 million Kevin Davies. As a result, Blackburn had a disastrous start to the season and Hodgson was sacked on November 21, 1998, with the club bottom of the league table.^[22] As Hodgson later explained, Blackburn's owner gave him the chance to resign honourably, but he refused to do so, leaving the club with no option but to sack him: "To Blackburn's honour, Jack Walker wanted me to resign, he wanted to still pay for the rest of my contract. He said, 'Why don't you resign? You've had enough, it's not working out.' I refused to do that, arrogant of course as I was in those days. I thought if they stuck with me I'd save them from relegation. I do think that the players were very much still with me, so I couldn't resign because that would be a suggestion that in some way I was doing something or something was happening which I didn't see to be the case or the truth. I gave him no choice but to sack me".^[23] His final game was a home defeat by Southampton.^[22][24]

Hodgson later complained that his failure at Blackburn tarnished his reputation in England, whilst his record on the continent should have made him comparable to Sir Alex Ferguson: "Of course, my track record, if people bothered to study it, would put me in the same category as [Sir Alex] Ferguson enjoys today, but people don't talk about what I've done outside England", he says. "Here, they just talk about Blackburn Rovers, but that's just a very small part of a 26-year career. To most English journalists it's the only part. I've got an excellent track record in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and in Denmark, where FC Copenhagen was my last job before I went to Udinese. We won the league there by seven points. Admittedly, the fact that I walked out and went to Italy to some extent tarnished that reputation..."^[25]

Return to Inter, Grasshopper[link]

In 1999, Hodgson was shortlisted to become the next manager of the Austrian national team but the role went instead to Otto Barić.^[10] Hodgson then had a brief second stint as caretaker at Inter before returning to Switzerland to coach Grasshopper for a season. In 2000, Hodgson was one of three candidates to take over as England manager;^[10] however, after having agreed to move to FC Copenhagen prior to the FA offering him a contract, he was obliged to refuse any offer and the job went to Sven-Göran Eriksson.

Copenhagen, Udinese[link]

Hodgson moved to Denmark and became manager of F.C. Copenhagen, where he proved an instant success, taking a team that had finished seventh and eighth in the two previous seasons, and winning the Superliga championship in the 2000–01 season – the club's first championship since 1993. In 2001, he left Copenhagen to move to Serie A side Udinese. With the club five points above the relegation zone, Hodgson was fired after just four months after allegedly stating that he regretted taking up the post.^[26] Newspapers quoted him saying: "Obviously I'm very happy to be back at this level of football, but I could have chosen a better club to come back to. It's an extremely strange club." Hodgson denied making the comments^[27] but later claimed that he wanted to leave so was happy to be sacked.^[25]

United Arab Emirates[link]

Hodgson took over as manager of the United Arab Emirates in April 2002,^[28] managing the senior and Olympic sides.^[29] He was sacked in January 2004 after a fifth-placed finish in the 2003 Gulf Cup of Nations.^[10] Speaking of his time as manager of the United Arab Emirates, Hodgson said: "That was a period where I didn't know where my career was going. But all these experiences enrich you and it was good to know I could get my message to players who many say are uncoachable. It's hard work; they're basically lazy. But I had them drilled and pressuring opponents almost like an English team. Most coaches who go there are just fannying around, but it's not my nature."^[8]

Viking[link]

In May 2004, Hodgson moved to Norwegian club Viking.^[30] The club had finished fifth in the season before Hodgson took over, but finished ninth under Hodgson in their first season in a new stadium, Viking Stadion. Following a spell at the top of the table, Viking finished fifth in the 2005 season.

Finland[link]