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Not for that, but his butcher shop in Leigh-on-Sea is masterful.

I doubt many people with pension funds control those Russian companies though.... He's a very close friend/associate of Putin. From the Daily Mail in case the Guardian link above is too lefty. His fortune boomed when he linked up with Boris Berezovsky, who run the national car dealer firm Lada, but who was also close with President Boris Yeltsin. It gave the rising businessman key access, which was pivotal to making huge sums in post-Soviet Russia, and he even lived in a flat in the Kremlin. It is even said that Abramovich was the man who first recommended Vladimir Putin to Yeltsin as his successor as Russia's president. When Putin first formed his cabinet as Prime Minister in 1999, Abramovich interviewed all the candidates before they were given approval. In the following years, he would remain one of Putin's closest allies, and in 2007, Putin consulted with Abramovich on who should be his own successor. Dmitry Medvedev - who served as president from 2008 to 2012 before Putin returned to the role - was also personally recommended by Abramovich. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10575341/amp/How-Roman-Abramovich-went-penniless-orphan-billionaire-oligarch.html

Usmanov isn't the owner of Everton. It's very murky there though. Their majority owner is Moshiri, who is the chairman of USM, which is Usmanov's company. USM also have (or had) sponsorship deals with Everton. It doesn't look great for them, but the complicated nature of the ownership and finances might see them getting away with it. It's much easier with Chelsea and Abramovic to see who owned/paid for what.

I assume they will not be allowed to sell season tickets for next season. If the club isn't sold, then Rovers will be able to claim they have bigger attendances than Chelsea.

Good luck today ?

#Heardle #11 ?️️?️️️ https://heardle.app

Heardle is quite fun - although good luck getting today's! Similar sort of thing, but you have to get the artist/song in as little time as possible. https://www.heardle.app

**** 'em, they've paid the money for the rights, it's not the PL fault they won't be able to show the game because of their dictator. In response, every club should adopt a Winnie the Pooh mascot. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855.amp

Sport and politics have always been entwined. It's impossible to untangle them. As Skunk Anansie so wisely said "yes it's ******* political, everything's political". As for Chelsea, their fans have always been "Millwall lite". A decent proportion of them seem to revel in being vile but they don't have anywhere near the charm of Millwall and so come off as a poor imitation.

Bit of a bump of thread, but it might interest you. ?

Unbelievable, I'm genuinely shocked by this one. RIP Warney

I just looked up the podcast, it's called "Sport's Strangest Crimes". The strangest thing is that the first series is Vanilla Ice talking about Shergar. ?

Yeah but Wrexham have Deadpool. They only have Deadbeats.

I got it in 3, but I was stunned that my third guess was correct. ?

A solemn vow of poverty and they still have a better stadium than the Horfield inbreds.

The topic title sounds like a Smiths/Morrissey album.

The driest storm ever.

If you like Wordle, there is a fun variant where you have to guess a country. Get it wrong and it gives you clues (distance and direction) to what country it is. https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

It was a specialist subject on there reasonably recently, last year or 2020. I got one wrong and still haven't forgiven myself. Edit: it was only October, seems a lot longer ago!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0010cts/mastermind-202122-episode-5 About 7 minutes in.

That'd probably be mine. I was obsessed with it as a teenager/early 20s and still remember enough to not embarrass myself on Mastermind. It's the general knowledge round that would kill me.

There are a few downloadable versions out there, but the game everyone seems to be playing is here: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/ Anything else is just a clone/copy.

I agree. But I'm way too lazy. ?

I doubt they sell any in their price range.

If they have broken toilets, they should probably try B&Q before Halfords.