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Evening Standard
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Marc Mayo

Chelsea: Lewis Hamilton explains ‘great opportunity’ as part of Sir Michael Broughton bid

Sir Lewis Hamilton has spoken passionately about how his childhood playing football in the streets led to his bid to help buy Chelsea from Roman Abramovich.

Along with Serena Williams, Hamilton is pouring millions of pounds of his own money into one of the competing bids to buy the club, in a consortium headed by Sir Martin Broughton.

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