Martin Edwards Net Worth in 2023 (Biography, Career, Net Worth, Age, Personal Life, etc.)

Former Manchester United chairman Charles Martin Edwards served in that role from 1980 to 2002. He presently serves as the club’s honorary life president and Director of Inview Technology Ltd. Martin Edwards Net Worth is estimated to be approximately $142.5 Million.

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Biography of Martin Edwards

Edwards was born in Adlington, Cheshire, England, at St Mary’s Services Hospital.

He failed the entrance exam for Stowe School, his parents’ first choice, at the age of 13, and instead attended Cokethorpe.

He graduated with six O levels in 1963 and began working in the family meat company as an assistant in shops and at butcher counters.

Later, he worked in the manufacturing division’s quality control and sales departments, and then at the catering division’s sales office in Miles Platting.

He was promoted to retail/wholesale controller in 1973. Argyll Foods had Edwards as a director until November 1983.

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In March 1970, he was elected to the Manchester United board of directors.

He took over as chairman on March 22, 1980, after his father Louis, who had served as chairman for the preceding 15 years, died suddenly and unexpectedly on February 25, 1980.

Edwards became chief executive on 5 January 1982, after the Football Association voted to enable football clubs to have one paid director. He received a £30,000 yearly salary.

Primary source of Martin Edwards Net worth (Manchester United)

Edwards immediately went on the lookout for a new general manager. There was speculation that he would replace Dave Sexton with Lawrie McMenemy, who had led Southampton to a shock FA Cup final victory over United five years before.

United was also said to be interested in signing Brian Clough, a league champion and two-time European Cup winner with Nottingham Forest, but Edwards said he would not contact Clough.

Instead, he went to Ron Atkinson, whose West Bromwich Albion side had qualified for the UEFA Cup three times in four seasons with top-five league results, including once reaching the quarter-finals.

In his footballing memoir, published in 1999, Atkinson stated that Edwards was the best chairman he had ever worked for, and he accepted the offer.

Soon after, Edwards made the funds available for Atkinson to sign Albion midfielder Bryan Robson for a national record fee of £1.5 million.

For the next six years, English clubs would be unable to break the national record, and Robson would go on to become one of the club’s greatest ever players.

Premier League

Edwards was also a member of the ‘Big 5,’ who was responsible for the Premier League’s inception and separation from the football league.

He stated in 1985 that “The game is being drained by smaller clubs. They should be put to sleep for the sake of the game”.

Personal life

In Bucklow, Cheshire, Edwards married Susan Lloyd Jones in 1968. James Louis, born in 1969, and Lucinda Jane, born in 1972, are their two children.

Careless driving

Edwards was found guilty of careless driving in July 2005 after being involved in a head-on collision near Conwy, North Wales, in April.

He’d just exited the A55 near Conwy golf club and turned right on the wrong side of the road.

Edwards recounted in a letter to the court how, after exiting the freeway, he felt he was on a one-way route.

After colliding with Edwards’ Mercedes-Benz, the driver of the other car, a Vauxhall Corsa, was seriously injured.

Edwards received a £500 fine and £45 in prosecution costs, as well as five points on his license.

Conclusion

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