Push your sanctimonious shit to someone else or speak to me like a normal person ffs. I'm allowed to feel something about my football club without it being entitled. What's entitled about not wanting to have points deducted?
Roman Abramovich plans to sell Chelsea | SOLD for £4.25BN
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Push your sanctimonious shit to someone else or speak to me like a normal person ffs. I'm allowed to feel something about my football club without it being entitled. What's entitled about not wanting to have points deducted?
Now, if they really want to punish Chelsea, I hope the UK government sells it to Mike Ashley.
The pressure didn't bother Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez.
EPL is rotten to the core. Let's not just laugh at Chelsea when you have the likes of City, Newcastle knocking around. State sanctioned sports washing is an ugly ugly stain on the EPL. I just look at the whole product now and think it's all pretty disgusting.
As said by others, I hope the club ends up in a fan ownership structure.
Yeah but the whole good for the club mindset is now gone. Wouldn’t the government pick a consortium now over a sole, rich benefactor?
Edit even that that’s needing Roman just handing it over.
This is rather surreal. What a mess. This should have never happened in the first place (Roman buying Chelsea).
hear, hear!
But they're okay with the City and Newcastle ownership?
The Premier League are just as crooked and bent as the rest of them.
The Premier League are just as crooked and bent as the rest of them.
You’re not wrong. Some United fans were crying for Saudi not too long ago. You didn’t choose the owner. You didn’t choose the war. The only thing you can be accused of is fully supporting winning under him. We are all duplicitous that way and there was no precedence in your case. Chill. Fans gonna fans.
Best laid plans & all that.
This the issue, how he was allowed to buy the club is staggering, same goes for the glazers, abu dhabi, saudis and the list goes on, absolute farcical.
This is fun. I’m really enjoying this. Hope this goes on for a while and the club gets completely ruined.
Dont lump as all in that.
Shame we haven't been able to hear from @smithy7364894 and @gary8374792 on what an unjust tragedy this is.
Clearly deserving of a large points deduction. Give their points to Derby, only fair.
Would the players be allowed to pay out of their own pocket?
Every man and this dog knew where and how Abramavic acquired his wealth, just like everyone knows about the oil states clubs and their human rights abuses. Yet the clubs fans, the media, the pundits etc laps it up. feck them and the fans of these clubs. Chelsea have got their comeuppance (even if it 20 years too late) and I have no doubt city, newcastle and psg will have their day too!
What will the Chelsea fans do now, support Newcastle?
Yep. The praise that has followed City and now recently Newcastle makes me want to vomit.
Probably keep it blue with City or go back to supporting likes of Watford and Fulham.
I added some for a reason. There was a thread. And a fair few wanted them. I apologise if you weren’t a part of that. But numbers were there to be seen. In fact, today itself there is a poster in the PSG thread asking if Qataris can now dump the PSG project and buy us.
People like us, if we ever were to be bought by Saudis or someone might quit. But if it means winning a lot, many manymany new fans will replace us. All those 5-15 yr olds who want to support winners. And soon On some random message board one of them will try to underplay our owners actions while we adopt 6 cats to fulfill that gap in our life.
Will you watch the World Cup? Wear Nike? etc
Why?
I'd point out that the poster himself described his position as "whataboutism". But I'll concede that the accuracy of the label depends on the argument implying that the sanctions on Chelsea are questionable unless the same is done to Newcastle, rather than arguing that Newcastle should face similar consequences, which seems open to interpretation.
However, in any case the main issue is that the whole argument rests on the completely false assumption that what we are talking about is standards for football clubs. It isn't, any more than it's about new standards for banks, holding companies or property holders. They are affected simply because they are owned by specific individuals who are targeted by specific sanctions in response to a specific situation. Which means there is absolutely no reason why this happening to Chelsea should mean it should also happen to other clubs with other kinds of owners. Completely irrespective of whether those owners are more or less admirable than Chelsea's owner. If you want to make that argument, you'd have to argue the UK government should impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia.
Nope.
Sure. I agree. Still not gonna stop him from hurting as a fan, right?
I’m hoping this Serves as a precedence for anyone trying to whitewash their past to no longer bother with English clubs. It needed to be said. Unfortunately it took a warfor the Govt to realise the implications but so be it.
One down... 
International football is for the most part awful tbf, so i could see why people won't watch. Plus it's in November/December which is a whole different issue on it's own.
That depends. It is in a discussion on Russia.
Not allowed even if they were stupid enough to offer. It’s self sustaining.
Yeah well it seems sports washing only works if you don't kill or threaten to kill the people you're actively washing.
Couldn't happen to a nicer club.
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Its good that that’s not happening then.
It is not Whataboutism. You have every right to point out what seems to be double standards... But there isn't one actually.
The government doesn't care about owners with blood money. The war crimes (see Yemen) committed by other owners do not matter. That's why half of the money circulating in the PL has very shady (and despicable) origins. But right now the government is applying pressure on Putin's regime because the UK is against the war Putin has waged over Ukraine. Chelsea is one of the regime's tools and it makes sense to take action against all of the regime's tools.
I came to this conclusion a while ago too. Thought I’d have a go at supporting lower league clubs and it’s just as big a mess down there too just on a smaller scale. Full of crooked owners looking to make a quick buck at the expense of the community. It just so happens the crooks happen to be local. Football is a real mess.