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I think I read that Adam Bloom is good mates with comedian and Brighton fan Stephen Grant although I don't think Adam Bloom is local - he is definitely Jewish, very funny and very fidgety.

Fascinating little clip. I did once meet a friend of a friend back in the early 90s who was a member of the association of football statisticians or somesuch organisation and these blokes were proper football geeks, turning up at matches with all sorts of charts and I guess that a job as a scout...

You're missing the point entirely. We know pretty much for certain that Brighton has taken advantage of the info from Bloom's syndicate to help in either identifying players or in reviewing their suitability. We also know that Darren Bloom, Tony's brother plays a role in recruitment. Bobby...

I think you're right. I'm sure the spreadsheets help but I don't think there's a substitute for a scout watching a player, not least to get a better idea on whether he's the right sort of player for the club. I can't see how any computer program can easily identify who is and who isn't a big...

Bloody hell. Talk about stating the obvious. Did you seriously think that I meant that Tony Bloom personally liaised with scouts or sat down at a computer analysing the performances of every striker in the Spanish leagues?

Cheers, an interesting read. Although if most clubs have access to this then it does level the playing field. Apologies if I'm stating the obvious (I'm not a gambling man), my understanding of TB's Lizard syndicate is that he has boffins poring over data and stats looking for the patterns...

Thanks for the reply and I take your point about the Israeli league connection being tenuous. A more likely candidate might be a scout/contact with links to Almeria seeing as we got both Hemed and Ulloa from there. They are also our two most successful foreign strikers for a long time so proof...

If just one of these is true then I'll die a happy man.

I'm not insinuating anything. We've had a lot of business via the Israeli leagues (albeit indirectly) and it seems a little strange as it's not the most obvious place to go hunting. But now you mention it, I would be astonished if the Bloom family didn't have strong connections with friends in...

Is there anybody on here who can shed a bit of light on how big a setup it is esp. in Europe and the amount of interaction with the algorithms from Tony Bloom's Lizard gambling syndicate? Also, does Tony or Darren Bloom have a specific contact in certain leagues, for instance Israel? I ask...