Haha, touche. Although she was actually born in Surrey and raised in Kent.
However her and her hubby have lived locally since the early 1970s, marrying in Suffolk in 1971 and living there since, bought Norwich in 1996 so had lived in the area for 25 years, and now 52 years (from the age of 30, now 82). In modern football where oil rich Middle Eastern states and American venture capitalists buy our football clubs, I think that still very much qualifies as local, although there is a rather unfortunate photograph of her wearing an Ipswich Town scarf in the 1970s, and I do wonder whether she could quite easily have become the owner of Ipswich Town if it had been the scum in dire financial straights rather than us (and therefore it was our shares they could afford to buy).
Bill Kenwright was of course born in Liverpool but chose to reside in London! Understandable of course, considering his profession.
Still, Matthew Benham is a good current example, grew up in Slough as a lifetime supporter of Brentford; 29 minute drive from Slough to Brentford. Remarkable what he has done for that club and fair play to him. Tony Bloom the majority shareholder at Brighton was born and raised in Brighton, as a Brighton fan, and Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy of Spurs are both Londoners, so still not quite true that Bill Kenwright is the last of the local owners even if we're just talking Premier League.
