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Classy Leeds? Will Ferrell set to join celebrity investors at football club
- Hollywood actor buys stake in club owners 49ers Enterprises
- Ferrell set to join Russell Crowe and Jordan Spieth
The Hollywood actor Will Ferrell has enhanced Leeds United’s newfound status as something of a celebrity magnet by becoming the latest household name to invest in the West Yorkshire football club.
Leeds are struggling to escape English football’s second tier, the Championship, but that has not deterred Ferrell, the star of Elf and Anchorman among other films, from joining his fellow actor Russell Crowe, the leading golfers Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas and the Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps in signing up as a minority investor at Elland Road.
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