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In Good Company: Coal miner’s son Jeremy Bentham of Shell comes clean

Ravi Velloor:Associate Editor: 6 Aug 2017

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There’s a boyishness that springs to life when Jeremy Bentham talks of his die-hard support for Everton Football Club.

It’s a throwback to his early days as the son, grandson and great-grandson of coal miners from Blackpool in north-west England and the time, in 1966, when Everton came back from two goals down to win 3-2 against Sheffield Wednesday in the last 20 minutes of the FA Cup final.

The 100,000-strong stadium crowd included Paul McCartney and John Lennon of The Beatles. England would go on to win the World Cup that year, helped by heroic performances by Alan Ball, the youngest in that squad. Later that year, Ball would transfer from Blackpool to Everton and the Liverpudlian club would gain the lifelong loyalty of the future chief executive of Shell Hydrogen and the current head of Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Business Scenarios team. read more

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