Evangelos Marinakis is not the first shipowner to plough hard-earned cash into sport, and he won’t be the last.
The Greek owner is paying £50m ($65m) for control of English football club Nottingham Forest, which enjoyed great success in the late 1970s but has since dropped out of the country’s top division.
Marinakis has been the owner of Piraeus team Olympiacos since 2010, which put him in direct rivalry with the Alafouzos clan through their control of Panathinaikos.
