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'You just can't fool people in football, especially not the fans. The owners weren't ready for that': Everton chairman Bill Kenwright - the epitome of the fan owner - discusses the now defunct European Super League

Bill Kenwright is sitting back on his sofa on the top floor of his offices in Little Venice. He is wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue trousers. So am I. I know the rules in his place of work: red attire is not allowed lest it conjure thoughts of Liverpool.

Anyway, he is thinking about the ill-begotten and unlamented European Super League and he is quoting Oscar Wilde, which is entirely what one might expect.

The Everton chairman and theatre impresario recites a line from An Ideal Husband, one of his most acclaimed productions, that he thinks best sums up the self-destructive folly that proved the undoing of the billionaire owners of the Big Six.