Top 10 (out of 100) in FourFourTwo magazine's list:

1. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nayan (Manchester City) (pictured right)
£15 billion

2. Lakshmi Mittal and family (Queens Park Rangers)
(main picture) £12.5 billion

3. Roman Abramovich (Chelsea)
£7 billion

4. Joe Lewis (Tottenham Hotspur)
£2.5 billion

5. Bernie and Slavica
Ecclestone (Queens Park Rangers) (pictured right)
£2.4 billion

6. Stanley Kroenke (Arsenal)
£2.24 billion

7. Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal) (pictured below right)
£1.5 billion

8. Lord Grantchester & The Moores Family (Everton)
£1.2 billion

8. Dermot Desmond (Celtic)
£1.2 billion

10. Lord Ashcroft (Watford)
£1.1 billion

10. Malcolm Glazer and family (Manchester United)
£1.1 billion

This article was first published in The Straits Times on Jan 8, 2009.