Rival watch

Great game ... terrible defending at timed but great fun to watch

 

It’s a conspiracy

 

For some reason Norbert didn't seem to have an opinion about this...

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I suppose retrospective punishment is too much to hope for ..

 

I googled "Abramovich" and accidentally picked out the BBC pidgin report:
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/ckkp2xnz0l2o
Confused the **** out of myself for a minute, there!

 

Looks like Uncle Roman paid Willian's agent a bung when he was having a medical with us
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ions-over-how-roman-abramovich-funded-success

 

And nothing will be done.

Who'd have thought that a crook buying a football club would commit crimes?
Shocker.

 

If there's so much as a whiff of them being stripped of their titles, I'm pretty sure this is what live footage of their trophy cabinet will look like

 

They won't strip them of any titles, but it would be **** for everyone else if they did.
Imagine winning the 16/17 Premier League now. It would be utter ****e.

Chelsea sabotaged the sport and the FA, PL and media helped them.
They should burn Stamford Bridge to the ground and salt the earth.
It's always been a scumbag club.

 

In a move that will upset football hipsters everywhere, Marcelo Gallardo is the new Al-Ittihad coach.
The former River Plate manager was tipped for a big European move since leaving Argentina.
It didn't happen and now he's decided to cash in, instead.

 

Technically there's precedent, given Juventus got stripped of two Serie A titles off the back of Calciopoli with Inter being awarded the title for the 2005-6 season - but the previous season's title essentially vanished off the face of the earth, as second-placed Milan were at least chest deep in the same scandal

There would also be hilarity at the mental gymnastics of seeing Bottlers try to sneer at us receiving a title due to the champion being crooked AF after they've spent the last six months howling about how they're the "rightful" champions of last season due to The Sheikh Mansour Team being crooked AF, as well as additional mental gymnastics trying to avoid answering if they don't want the 2004-5 title they would be awarded

But the issue with Chelsea (and Fulham under al-Fayed, and The Sheikh Mansour Team, and the Saudis, and Wrexham...) is how out of alignment the media are with fans, because every single time a club gets a sugar daddy the media immediately falls in lockstep with the club and present it like it's a good thing that some financially-doped club is either buying their way up the league (as Fulham did and Wrexham are doing) or are buying their way to titles like the Chavs and the Mansourites have repeatedly done even though most rival fans do not suddenly start saying how the club that suddenly got money "deserve" success or titles or anything else

To my knowledge this doesn't seem to happen in other countries, as the German press certainly didn't fall in lockstep with Monster Energy Dusseldorf, the French Press didn't fall in lockstep with PSG until Neymar showed up and suddenly made Ligue 1 look like something other than the Eredivisie with better cooking but worse beer, just as the Spanish press didn't fall in lockstep with Malaga, which is an interesting psychological study (as opposed to the other psychological study of why sportswashing is designed to create a parasocial relationship, hence middling clubs whose fans are desperate for success are bought so there's an army of people who will defend the owners to the hilt, as made especially sinister by St james Pit in the last couple of years)

 

Genuine headline from The Athletic:
Patrick Stewart to take Manchester United chief executive role when Richard Arnold departs.

Make it so!

 

And they thought the prawn sandwiches were a problem...

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Highly illogical, Captain

 

All depends on which Patrick Stewart

 

And which Star Trek...

 

Tantrum incoming...

 

Surely with club putting out a statement supporting him they are also guilty of the same things! They should make an example of them - points deduction?