Mittal eyeing English soccer club

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London: After the successful take over of French steel company Arcelor, world's richest Indian Lakshmi N Mittal is eyeing another grand acquisition - this time in the field of sports.

Mittal has emerged as a contender to buy English Premiership football club Birmingham City after making an initial inquiry, The Daily Telegraph reported in London on Wednesday.

The 56-year-old Mittal, at 19.25-billion-pound twice as rich as Roman Abramovich, the Russian millionaire owner of Chelsea, was yet to follow up on his preliminary inquiry, the newspaper said.

Besides Mittal, a London-based NRI, another unnamed business magnate from the Far East was also said to be interested in the club and was likely to make a formal bid later this week.

David Sullivan and David and Ralph Gold, owners of Birmingham which has caused a flutter by getting promoted to the top league of the competition, were looking to sell the club and would be glad to finish with a speedy handover.

Besides Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur are the other English Premiership clubs that have been bought over by business tycoons in recent years.