Career
He hails from the Queen"s Drive area of Liverpool, but by 2001 was living at Chalfont Street Giles in Buckinghamshire. Neill left Bowaters to set up his own packaging and plastics business, exploited the new trend for own-branding by supermarkets and then sold out in 1995, when the annual turnover had reached £15m, to become a venture capitalist. Neill has had racehorses in training with Martin Pipe, Michael Bell and Richard Hannon, Senior
His best horse was probably Gloria Victis, who had to be put down after running a tremendously brave race in the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup at the 2000 Cheltenham Festival.
By the following year, he was the fourth largest shareholder in the club He owned 3 per cent of the club by the time of a takeover bid in 2007.
