Love him or hate,Barry Hearn.

East End 'barrow boy' (?) and Leyton Orient or The Orient,certainly saw this lot coming. Nice One. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34721408

Always described him as a Dick. I taught in Leyton for 11 years and one time had to take 20 14 year olds to hear a motivational speech by Hearn and Steve Davis. They harped on about how much money, how many cars and how much property they own. When we got back to school I asked what they thought they'd learnt from the day. A Pakistani boy said 'I've learnt Barry Hearn and Steve Davis are a pair of Dicks!' I felt my work there was done.
Doesn't really follow your link but it's my only Barry Hearn anecdote.