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Barry Hearn takes aim at English football: "How have you spent all that money?"

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Barry Hearn has panned football for pleading poverty during the coronavirus crisis, asking: “Why did you spend all your money?” As chairman of Matchroom, Hearn has presided over commercial success in darts, boxing and snooker.

But he’s shocked by “established sports” - notably football, and to some extent rugby and cricket – warning of a £700million-plus black hole in their finances.

Hearn, who underwent a cardiac procedure last month following a heart attack, said: “It shouldn’t matter if you are the world’s worst gold mine operator when you are sitting on top of the Klondike. “And it’s not a good look, if you run a billion-pound industry, when you go cap-in-hand to the government asking for a handout at the first sign of rain. “We will

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