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Tony Bloom is a visionary entrepreneur, a tech pioneer and quite possibly a billionaire, but he’s so protective of his private life that nobody knows the precise size of his wealth.
He owns Brighton of the Premier League – aka Brighton, the best-run football club in the richest and most popular football league in the world.
And he appears to be closing in on an acquisition of a slice of Hearts of the Premiership that could transform the landscape of Scottish football…