Article: WHO OWNS YOUR CLUB?(Sport)

IS your club in the hands of a billionaire oligarch, a mysterious Middle-Easterner, a home-grown entrepreneur or a European bank with more liabilites than assets? In these financially precarious times it pays to know who holds the purse strings -- and how much they've got.

ARSENAL Stan Kroenke (American, right) -- [pounds sterling]2.079bn, 28 per cent; Alisher Usmanov (Uzbekistan) -- [pounds sterling]1.3bn, 25.1 per cent; Danny Fiszman (English) -- [pounds sterling]225m, 16.1 per cent; Lady Bracewell-Smith (English) -- [pounds sterling]85m, 15.9 per cent ASTON VILLA Randy Lerner (American, right) -- [pounds sterling]800m BIRMINGHAM CITY Grandtop Holdings (Carson ...

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