1. John Shelton Fenty was born on 10 December 1961 and is an English politician, businessman and former football chairman.
20 Facts About John Fenty
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John Fenty was the Conservative councillor for the Humberston and New Waltham ward of North East Lincolnshire Council until 2021.
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John Fenty is the former chairman of Grimsby Town, a position he held from 2004 until 2011, but then again in de facto terms from 2011 until 2020.
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John Fenty remained the clubs majority shareholder until being bought out in May 2021 and thus departing the club.
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At age 18 in 1980, Fenty took over a failed haulage business that his father had started.
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John Fenty finally stood down as chairman at the start of 2007 and left the company in August 2007, after 27 years at the helm.
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In January 2011, John Fenty became the chairman and finance director of Topcon Construction Limited, having previously been a client of Topcon when it built a new cold store facility for his fish processing business at Five Star Fish.
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Since April 2013, John Fenty is the business mentor and commercial adviser to IT support company E-Tech Solutions based in Grimsby.
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In May 2008, John Fenty was elected as a Conservative Party councillor for the Humberston and New Waltham ward of North East Lincolnshire Council.
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In February 2021, John Fenty announced he would stand down as a NELC councillor in the May 2021 elections.
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John Fenty complained to Ofcom following a 28 April 2007 broadcast of the BBC Radio Humberside Sports programme contained a reporter calling John Fenty a "plonker".
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On 7 March 2011, after using an unnamed agent to make a direct approach, John Fenty interviewed Boston United joint managers Rob Scott and Paul Hurst despite the pair being under contract and not having the permission of Boston to speak to the pair.
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On 19 September 2011, John Fenty resigned as chairman of Grimsby Town with immediate effect.
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John Fenty remained the club's chief spokesperson and continued as de facto chairman until Philip Day was officially appointed to the role in May 2020.
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John Fenty stood down from his director duties to concentrate on his position as manager and would be using social media more often to communicate with supporters, claiming he would not be going anywhere unless told so.
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Later that day John Fenty officially rejected a potential takeover over bid from the consortium.
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Soccer AM presenter and Grimsby fan Lloyd Griffith wrote in his column for fan site "Cod Almighty" on 24 December 2020, that having become friends with many Grimsby players over the years that some of the clubs top performing players, in particular Padraig Amond and Charles Vernam had told him they had only left the club because John Fenty had offered them poor or reduced contracts that had forced them to look elsewhere despite being happy at the club.
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On 29 December 2020, John Fenty agreed to sell his shares to the consortium of Tom Shutes, Jason Stockwood and Andrew Petitt.
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Club legend and record appearance holder John McDermott laid the blame on Fenty saying he felt sad and angry.
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On 5 May 2021, John Fenty officially left the club having been bought out by Jason Stockwood and Andrew Pettit, two of the original Shutes consortium members.