Jack Walker
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Walker grew a family sheet-metal business into Walkersteel, sold it to British Steel in 1989, and spent part of the proceeds on Blackburn Rovers, his home-town club. He rebuilt Ewood Park, funded the team that won the Premier League in 1995 and set up a trust to keep supporting the club after his death in 2000. The club's later struggles under other owners show how much it depended on him.
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