When you sell the media network you created and pocket £64
million in the process, it might be expected that you would abandon
restraint and treat yourself. A stately country home, perhaps? That
little hotel on Mustique you've always fancied? A weekend place on Cap
Ferrat? A boat for the Fastnet Race? A Conference League football
club?
Yes, that's what Chris Ingram, the founder of CIA and outgoing chairman
of Tempus, will be buying following his company's purchase last year by
WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell. "The nice thing about Woking Football Club is
that it's a million miles from WPP," Ingram says, carefully omitting
mention of the club's lowly 17th position in the league.
It isn't surprising that Ingram is not splashing out on life's more
obvious trinkets but opting to buy the club he has supported since he
was a boy.
After all, his splurge following the flotation of CIA in 1989 was a flat
in ... Bournemouth.
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