When Simon Sadler bought Blackpool FC in 2019, he was described by The Guardian as a “local-boy-done-good”. That’s something of an understatement. Sadler was by then the doyen of one of Hong Kong’s largest and most successful hedge funds – having grown his fund, Segantii Capital, from a $26m tiddler to a $6.2bn giant, with offices in London, New York and Dubai, in little more
