Phil Gartside

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Phil Gartside is the chairman of Bolton Wanderers.

He is a businessman based in Lancashire and is Chairman of Chambers of Commerce North West. He was appointed onto the Wanderers board of directors in 1988. Eleven years later he succeeded Gordon Hargreaves as the Bolton chairman.

Under his guidance the club have become consolidated in the English Premier League. He has a close working relationship with the club's manager Sam Allardyce despite allegations of "bung" taking made by the BBC Panorama program [1]. He has seen a number of world class footballers arrive at the club including Youri Djorkaeff, Jay-Jay Okocha, Fernando Hierro, Iván Campo and Hidetoshi Nakata.

He is quite outspoken and once said of Sir Alex Ferguson “What Sir Alex said cost him a bottle of wine. I had a nice bottle of red to give him for his birthday, but after what he said he can sod off.” [2]

He is also a prominent football administrator and currently is an Football Association Board Member.

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