Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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Chelsea really have proven themselves to be a disgusting club from top to bottom
[Football] Chelsea end of ?
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In the spirit of sporting integrity, maybe Chelsea should be asked to field a team of equivalent value to Boro’s. They have the breadth of squad to do this; even if it means calling on the youth teams and academy players. Level playing field and all that.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
- 10,159
The Steve Gibson quote is excellent
"Chelsea and sporting integrity do not belong in the same sentence,”
https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-chelsea-request-fa-cup-boro-integrity-steve-gibson
"Chelsea and sporting integrity do not belong in the same sentence,”
https://www.football365.com/news/opinion-chelsea-request-fa-cup-boro-integrity-steve-gibson
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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No Chobham. Cobham is really nice, Chobham is an absolute shit hole.
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What exactly do you think that fan would be able to achieve?
nicko31
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You'd really think they'd have more important stuff on their mind, truly embarassing
Transparency, accountability, ethics...
- Apr 5, 2014
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If the government are making the correct call here then there are further questions to be asked.
I don't believe it is right to punish someone for being 'close' or in some way connected to a person who commits a criminal act, as Putin is doing with his war crimes in Ukraine at present.
However, If Abramovich is being outed for having corrupt money invested, why was this never an issue before ? What did the government know ? He should have been forced out long ago.
Also, the Conservative Party is hugely funded by Russian nationals. When are we getting an investigation into this and their links ? The Russian government has already committed one act of war here recently in Salisbury. Where was the reaction there ?
Rather than jollying over the demise of Chelsea, folk need to be asking MAJOR questions of this government, what they know, and what they are hiding themselves.
If anyone saw the BBC features today, they may have seen the targeting of civilian rescuers by the Saudis in Yemen. This is the same as Ukraine. So, Newcastle United next ? I hope so.
If folk are genuine about football cleaning up its act then they have to be genuine and not pick and choose in a tide of populist willy waving.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/15/...mhqYOM-GNydNPK0xznno_XpKKjDAGv6PRpO-Wz2G4aLyk
I don't believe it is right to punish someone for being 'close' or in some way connected to a person who commits a criminal act, as Putin is doing with his war crimes in Ukraine at present.
However, If Abramovich is being outed for having corrupt money invested, why was this never an issue before ? What did the government know ? He should have been forced out long ago.
Also, the Conservative Party is hugely funded by Russian nationals. When are we getting an investigation into this and their links ? The Russian government has already committed one act of war here recently in Salisbury. Where was the reaction there ?
Rather than jollying over the demise of Chelsea, folk need to be asking MAJOR questions of this government, what they know, and what they are hiding themselves.
If anyone saw the BBC features today, they may have seen the targeting of civilian rescuers by the Saudis in Yemen. This is the same as Ukraine. So, Newcastle United next ? I hope so.
If folk are genuine about football cleaning up its act then they have to be genuine and not pick and choose in a tide of populist willy waving.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/15/...mhqYOM-GNydNPK0xznno_XpKKjDAGv6PRpO-Wz2G4aLyk
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So, you don't think the club are ethical or transparent? Accountable to whom? The board, and I assume any board, are accountable to the shareholders of the company.
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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It may not seem fair, but, in Realpolitik terms, their money is a potential source of funding for him. As Angus Roxburgh puts it in this piece https://www.theguardian.com/comment...s-oligarchs-putin-hurt-russian-leader-ukraine about sanctions, "Putin allows them to prosper on two conditions: that they cough up the cash when he needs it, and that they stay out of politics."
Roxburgh points out that the sanctions won't impact on policy as the oligarchs don't have political sway. However, I suppose that by freezing their assets, the West is actually preventing Putin from demanding capital from them. Weirdly, if the sanctions on the oligarchs prove to be temporary, Western governments may actually be doing some of these people a long term favour. Yes, freezing their assets means they cannot access their money at this moment, but it also means that the Russian government can't either. It would be my guess that they'll have more chance of getting most of it back from those who have currently frozen it, than they would have had from Putin if he deemed it necessary to his ends whilst his economy is cut off from foreign trade.
- Apr 19, 2018
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It's interesting seeing Ken Griffin of Citadel now being linked with a bid to buy Chelsea. I thought the name rang a bell - if anyone remembers the "meme stocks" of around this time last year Griffin/Citadel were and still are one of the targets of that movement for supposedly damaging livelihoods and the US economy with allegedly illegal - or at best unethical - activities to supress stock prices and destroy companies. They are currently under investigation by the Department of Justice alongside several others funds for basically insider trading which could be huge, and it looks like there could be documents that show he may have not been entirely truthful when giving evidence to a Congressional hearing a few months ago about market manipulation which if true means he could be in trouble for perjury as well. It might be that there's nothing going on and of course he's innocent until and unless proven guilty, but he does seem to be more controversial than perhaps Chelsea would want to be associated with right now.
Lawros Lip
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- Sep 16, 2020
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Anyone else enjoying Real Madrid’s performance against Chelsea in the Champions League? 
maltaseagull
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Anyone else enjoying Real Madrid’s performance against Chelsea in the Champions League?
No. I am not watching but they are as much an English club as City and Liverpool. It would be good to see 3 English clubs in the semi finals.
bluenitsuj
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Not watching but loving the scoreline. Love to see the arrogant English clubs beatenAnyone else enjoying Real Madrid’s performance against Chelsea in the Champions League?
But arrogant spanish clubs are ok then?
GT49er
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No, they're not, but Chelsea? Yeugh ......... come on! Icons of Londoncentric entitlement!
Yes, they're also a foreign-owned company, with mostly foreign playing staff, which happens to be based in England....playing in tournament for teams, not nations.
Not a fan of Chelsea or their fans but I'd rather see them win than the entitled spanish giants who remain one of the principle architects of a super league that was not based on sporting achievement on the pitch.
GT49er
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Lesser of two evils, innit? Maybe I'm just less bothered about Spanish teams because they're too far away (and in a different league) to bother about.