article_snippet: Crystal Palace owners (from left)
article_snippet: Swansea, another team involved in takeover talks recently, are currently owned by a group of astute Welsh businessmen.
article_snippet: There will be a good deal of Palace fans who will be sceptical about overseas investment, wondering how a club embedded in the streets of south London came to be owned by mega-wealthy Americans.
article_snippet: Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea in July 2003 and the fans have never once heard Roman Abramovich speak about Roman Abramovich association with a club embedded in the streets of south London.
article_snippet: Roman Abramovich will live with Roman Abramovich because Chelsea have won three Premier League titles, four FA Cups, three League Cups, the Champions League and Europa League since Roman Abramovich took control.
article_snippet: Back then Raymond Bloye, a Chelsea fan who harboured ambitions to buy the west London club, was the owner and chairman of Palace.
article_snippet: Stephen Browett, one of the shareholders, admits Stephen Browett, one of the shareholders bought into Palace
article_snippet: Mark Goldberg and Simon Jordan, both Palace supporters and successive owners of the club, took Mark Goldberg and Simon Jordan, both Palace supporters and successive owners of the club into administration on separate occasions.
article_snippet: Tottenham were owned by property investor Irving Scholar; Sam Hammam, born in Lebanon and living in England, was chairman of Wimbledon.
highlights_snippet: Crystal Palace set to be the next English club under American ownership .
  