That lifelong fan became a board member on 23 October 1989.īut in the autumn of 1999 he was asked to answer a club crisis. “I thought, ‘If he's there and my team are there, I could be all on my own, but I'm safe’.” “'I'd get two buses and a tram and I'd watch Dave Hickson, my all-time hero, and I was safe,” Mr Kenwright once said. He was the driving force behind the move towards a new stadium, a switch to a new training camp, the growth of the most successful community scheme in the country and 12 top eight finishes.īorn in Wavertree on September 4th 1945, Mr Kenwright was a lifelong Everton fan and grew up idolising Everton’s very own Cannonball Kid, the prolific and fearless striker, Dave Hickson. In the 19 years of his chairmanship the 78-year-old steered the Club calmly and sure-footedly through a period of immense upheaval. Everton Football Club has lost a chairman, a leader, a friend, and an inspiration.īill Kenwright passed away on Monday 23 October after a long battle with illness.Įverton’s longest serving chairman for more than a century, Chairman Bill led the Club through a period of unprecedented change in English football.
