Think multi-club ownership models in football and one example immediately springs to mind: Manchester City’s City Football Group has 13 clubs under its umbrella from all across the globe, with the reigning Premier League champions as its figurehead.
But around 70 places further down the English pyramid, a similar model is beginning to click: for its flagship club, at least. The Alabama-based Trivela Group was formed in 2021 by the American businessmen Ben Boycott and Kenneth Polk; a year later, in the summer of 2022, it acquired Walsall, with Boycott joining the Saddlers as co-chairman.
