Fordy62 Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 What a complete embarrassment! The Middlesbrough response though! Ironic in the extreme! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 (edited) 30 minutes ago, chinapig said: The Chelsea Supporters’ Trust have at least urged the club to withdraw their request. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/mar/15/chelsea-want-middlesbrough-fa-cup-tie-behind-closed-doors-roman-abramovich Withdrawn - as previously mentioned above. https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/fa-statement-chelsea-remove-closed-doors-request Edited March 15, 2022 by bcfc01 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colemanballs Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 I'm confused. I know they can't sell tickets, but what is to stop them giving tickets away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 3 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said: Yeltsin- and the oligarchs- predated Putin. Something that gets glossed over at times (not suggesting you are). The looting of state resources happened under Yeltsin. Everyone didn't get share certificates in them, as one poster here has suggested, they were just sold massively under market value to criminals. To stay an oligarch though you need to give Putin your support or you might find yourself suddenly suicided like Boris Berezhovsky. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILINFRANCE Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 54 minutes ago, chinapig said: The Chelsea Supporters’ Trust have at least urged the club to withdraw their request. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/mar/15/chelsea-want-middlesbrough-fa-cup-tie-behind-closed-doors-roman-abramovich You have probably already seen it, but David Squire's view on the situation. https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/mar/15/david-squires-on-the-fall-of-chelsea-roman-empire 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 Oh no! How will they cope without getting a private jet? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 12 minutes ago, PHILINFRANCE said: You have probably already seen it, but David Squire's view on the situation. https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/mar/15/david-squires-on-the-fall-of-chelsea-roman-empire Yes, I love Squires' stuff. Ross Barkley fridge magnets! Shame comments aren't open to see Chelsea fans outraged and tying themselves in knots defending their hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRIAN WILSON Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 4 minutes ago, BS2 Red said: Oh no! How will they cope without getting a private jet? Oh No, you poor elitist pricks - Just ask FGR / Exeter how they travelled to Carlisle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merrick's Marvels Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 12 minutes ago, chinapig said: Yes, I love Squires' stuff. Ross Barkley fridge magnets! Non-magnetic, too! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinapig Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 Just now, Merrick's Marvels said: Non-magnetic, too! Yes, it's the little touches you can easily miss that make him so funny. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifty Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 9 minutes ago, BRIAN WILSON said: Oh No, you poor elitist pricks - Just ask FGR / Exeter how they travelled to Carlisle Why does that make them elitist? They travel on planes to reduce the journey/travel time so players are fresher for the match they have to play. They're not doing it to laugh in the face of lower league clubs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChippenhamRed Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 27 minutes ago, BS2 Red said: Oh no! How will they cope without getting a private jet? Pretty sure a group of 20-odd millionaires could probably stump up for their own private jet if they wanted. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted March 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 5 minutes ago, ChippenhamRed said: Pretty sure a group of 20-odd millionaires could probably stump up for their own private jet if they wanted. or even Easyjet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILINFRANCE Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 (edited) 18 minutes ago, grifty said: Why does that make them elitist? They travel on planes to reduce the journey/travel time so players are fresher for the match they have to play. They're not doing it to laugh in the face of lower league clubs. You are correct, but, if you have ever played football to any reasonable level, you will know that the body becomes more delicate the higher you go. Whereas, at my level, we would meet in the car park and drive in convoy, Premier League and the like need first class travel with all the space and comfort that comes with it. It is the same with injuries: where we would run it off or, if it was serious, receive the ‘magic sponge’ or, even, in extreme cases, smelling salts, you will have noticed how the Premier League stars (and Rotherham under Neil Warnock) crumple immediately to the floor and require several minutes of specialist treatment. Poor old Chelsea, I say. Edited March 15, 2022 by PHILINFRANCE 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 35 minutes ago, BS2 Red said: Oh no! How will they cope without getting a private jet? 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 Starting to like Boro & Steve Gibson 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 2 hours ago, Red-Robbo said: The looting of state resources happened under Yeltsin. Everyone didn't get share certificates in them, as one poster here has suggested, they were just sold massively under market value to criminals. To stay an oligarch though you need to give Putin your support or you might find yourself suddenly suicided like Boris Berezhovsky. And many other "heart attack" victims, and people who suddenly "fall out" of windows, plus the lawyer from Portland whose helicopter blew up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Oil Services Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 17 hours ago, Red-Robbo said: Neil Hannon's greatest line, fer me, is the one about Mike Gatting, Gatt's insatiable gut/appetite and the Ball of the Century at Old Trafford in 1993 when Shane Warne bowled Gatt's "for a buggering duck", in his song "Jiggery Pokery:" "If it had been a cheese roll it would never have got passed me" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 22 hours ago, Red-Robbo said: The looting of state resources happened under Yeltsin. Everyone didn't get share certificates in them, as one poster here has suggested, they were just sold massively under market value to criminals. To stay an oligarch though you need to give Putin your support or you might find yourself suddenly suicided like Boris Berezhovsky. Agreed- massively under market value sale was what happened, loans for shares and all that. Yes, agreed for the most part...think he initially did a solid job reigning them in given how they not far off ran the Russian State- but yes there was a report from the time in 2000, when he said that the way they acquired their fortune would not be investigated, IF they stayed out of politics especially if it opposed him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombsy Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 Trump looking to buy Chelsea? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slippin cider Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 Wouldn’t give tuppence for the club … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted March 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Coombsy said: Trump looking to buy Chelsea? his best buddy… Edited March 16, 2022 by exAtyeoMax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 4 minutes ago, exAtyeoMax said: his best buddy… Lives in Bedminster. Bedminster, New Jersey. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exAtyeoMax Posted March 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, Red-Robbo said: Lives in Bedminster. Bedminster, New Jersey. blimey…it's a sign Hopefully Steve isn't still looking for investment 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 Woody Johnson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 57 minutes ago, BS2 Red said: Woody Johnson? Yep. In partnership with Dick Cox and Nobby Plonker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS2 Red Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 1 minute ago, Red-Robbo said: Yep. In partnership with Dick Cox and Nobby Plonker. They are doomed to fail as Mike Hunt is in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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