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Anthony Grant Bloom MBE (born 20 March 1970) is an English sports bettor, poker player, and entrepreneur. He is the majority owner and chairman of Premier League football club Brighton & Hove Albion, and investor in and minority shareholder of Belgian First Division A team Royale Union Saint-Gilloise. [1] Poker and betting.
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Born in March 1970, Bloom comes from a family of Brighton fans including a director and a former vice-chairman of the club. Before becoming Brighton owner, Bloom was best known as a professional poker player, using skills which are thought to have served him well in football. Bloom is the man behind betting consultancy StarLizard. He turned 53 duri...
Named after Bloom's poker nickname of 'The Lizard', StarLizard is a hugely successful operation that uses an army of analysts to capture data from matches in leagues across the world. StarLizard sells data to gamblers and informs the workings of Bloom's own gambling syndicate. The data it uses is thought to inform Brighton's consistently productive...
Bloom acquired a 75 percent stake in the club when he took over at Brighton from revered former chairman Dick Knight. When he was asked about the possibility of foreign investors taking over the club in future, Bloom said in 2016: "They, for sure, are interested in Brighton through third parties and different middle people. "They've expressed an in...
Bloom's net worth is hard to estimate, but several reports have put his personal fortune at around £1.3 billion ($1.6bn). When it suggested his worth was a more modest £765 million ($952m) in 2022, the Sussex Expresssaid that put Bloom 15th on the list of the Premier League's richest owners.
Earning promotion to the Premier League was predictably transformative for Brighton: in 2019, the value of the club rose to £224m ($279m), local newspaper The Argusreported. However, the club recorded losses of £270m ($336m) in the four seasons to 2021/22, their accounts showed, and remained highly reliant on Bloom, to whom they were £499m ($621m) ...
For 95 years Brighton and Hove Albion were based at the Goldstone Ground in Hove, until the board of directors decided to sell the stadium. The sale, implemented by majority shareholder Bill Archer and his chief executive David Bellotti , proved controversial, and the move provoked widespread protests against the board.
Apr 18, 2017 · Bloom, a veteran gambler who owns Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, made millions setting up an online bookmaker and poker websites in the 2000s, and his net worth — which is a mystery ...
- Henry Blodget
Sep 13, 2023 · Tony Bloom is discussing the longevity of a model which defies logic: Brighton & Hove Albion get better while selling their best players.
- Andy Naylor
Aug 3, 2018 · Tony Bloom took over Brighton & Hove Albion because of his lifelong passion for the club – not for business reasons.
Aug 3, 2020 · Tony Bloom is reliving Brighton & Hove Albion’s dramatic stoppage-time winner against Arsenal at the Amex Stadium in June, a victory that played a crucial part in their Premier League survival.
