i didn't realise their former owner went totally bust

Bj?rg?lfur Gu?mundsson (born 2 January 1941 in Reykjav?k, Iceland) was the chairman and former owner of West Ham United FC. Bj?rg?lfur was Iceland's second businessman worth more than a billion dollars ? his son, Bj?rg?lfur Thor Bj?rg?lfsson being the first. He was ranked by Forbes magazine in March 2008 as the 1014th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $1.1 billion.[1] In December of the same year Forbes revalued his net worth to $0[2] and on 31 July 2009 he was declared bankrupt by the Icelandic courts with debts of almost ?500 million (96 Billion ISK).[3]

Posted By: SCC 28 on May 16th 2011 at 10:01:20


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