Chelsea fans contemplating the last rites of the Roman Empire and the advent of the Todd Boehly era may wish to focus their attention on the career of Magic Johnson, the legendary basketball player.
Basketball’s equivalent of Lionel Messi when he played for the LA Lakers in the 1980s is the man who switched Boehly on to sport as a glory game rather than a mere media rights play.
Boehly gets sport — he was a high-school wrestling champion — but is a finance man at heart. From his offices in Greenwich, Connecticut he crunches numbers and makes strategic investment plays for the company he founded, Eldridge, which manages £40billion worth of assets.