Bill Jenner is still alive and now well into his nineties I believe.
He used to run (or was prominent in at least) an organisation called the Charlton Athletic Development Fund in the sixties which, I suppose, could perhaps be described as a prototype Valley Gold in that it tried to raise funds to maintain the ground and help progress the Club generally.
He also became a leading light in the Supporters Club in the sixties and seventies and, whilst to my knowledge it was never formalised as such, became effectively a prototype fans' director once he joined the Board.
I think he left the Board around the time of the Hulyer shenanigans which eventually led to the near bankruptcy of 1984.
As a final aside he was a leading light locally in the early days of UKIP when the Party was founded in 1993.
A reason perhaps why his contribution to Charlton Athletic has never been fully recognised, acknowledged and discussed on here.
Absolutely Len, us lefties got together in a cupboard in Shooters Hill three years ago and decided to airbrush him from Charlton history after discovering his political leanings from seventeen years before. Now you have rumbled us, you clever old stick.
Ha ha! Nice one, Algarve! Why didn't you invite me in to that cupboard at Shooters Hill?
Just remembered that there used to be a 'Jenner Ward' at The Brook hospital and assumed at the time it had something to do with him or his family.
I now feel old.
Not as old as if you had known Edward Jenner (1749 to 1823). He is the Gloucestershire physician who invented the smallpox vaccine - more likely this is the man commemorated at the Brook?
Yet a former director who could cast an interesting insight into the Gliksten / Hulyer eras for example has been, to the best of my knowledge anyway, almost completely ignored.
Why do YOU think that is then?
Because he left the board over 30 years ago?
That is before we bust, before the move to Selhurst, before the move back, before the prem years and I suspect before most posters were born.
Perhaps you could start a thread on Chief Nzeribe and his contribution to the club?
Now you mention it , I don't think anyone has ever interviewed Chief Nzeribe from here either. Must be because Charlton Life is institutionally racist I guess.
I suspect most of you are racist, fascist, Spanner-loving homosexualists. I wouldn't say I'm paranoid because there really is someone following me....
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I now feel old.
The thread title made me think of a board game I had as a kid.
????? Jenner decathlon game.
It isn't him is it?
haha