GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £70m
Lucky for some. Two decades of success, and they'll probably come out of this looking even better. Thought that kind of luck was exclusively reserved for the RS!
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Roman Abramovich hands over ‘stewardship and care’ of Chelsea football club
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Cheeky gets. lol
That's outrageous lol . Talk about not knowing how to read the room FFS
tommye
Player Valuation: £100m
Another massive embarrassment
NorthernBlue
Player Valuation: £30m
Sporting integrity? Chelsea? Amazing request that. So are they saying all their home games should be played in an empty stadium to.
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
Only season ticket holders can go
NorthernBlue
Player Valuation: £30m
efcfanwirral
Player Valuation: £25m
I'm not entirely sure why Boro can't sell those tickets directly to the Chelsea fans? Where did the 500 come from, those who paid some sort of autocup scheme already?
Surely the FA/Wembley will do that if they get to the semi final and/or final?
Surely the FA/Wembley will do that if they get to the semi final and/or final?
EverTheOptimist
Player Valuation: £8m
Poor Boro being picked on by a club that for almost 20 years had every financial advantage over every club in Europe thanks to a dodgy Oilgarch.
Seen this on Twitter and if it's true, it looks like the Government has had enough of the entitlement of everyone involved with that club.
I hope the next owners are stingy Wall Street Vulture capitalists to put Chelsea fans a long continued dose back to reality of the pre Oligarch days.
Seen this on Twitter and if it's true, it looks like the Government has had enough of the entitlement of everyone involved with that club.
I hope the next owners are stingy Wall Street Vulture capitalists to put Chelsea fans a long continued dose back to reality of the pre Oligarch days.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £70m
Brass neck on Chelsea to even think of requesting a behind closed doors game lol un-kin-believable!
EverTheOptimist
Player Valuation: £8m
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Steve Gibson in The Athletic.
Steve Gibson, the Middlesbrough chairman, has responded furiously to Chelsea’s request to play their FA Cup quarter-final match at the Riverside Stadium behind closed doors, telling The Athletic that “Chelsea and sporting integrity do not belong in the same sentence.”
That statement brought a withering response from Gibson, the Teesside native who played a pivotal role in rescuing Middlesbrough from liquidation in 1986 and continues to bankroll the Championship club.
“Chelsea and sporting integrity do not belong in the same sentence,” he told The Athletic. “Where is the intellect of Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, who has been an apologist for his owner, where the trophies won over 19 years have come from the corrupt money provided by Abramovich?
“Where is the intellect of the chairman of Chelsea when it comes to playing his games at home in front of his season ticket holders? Does he want to play all his away games at empty stadiums?”
Chelsea admitted in their statement that Middlesbrough “had been kind enough to extend their deadline for ticket sales and stadium allocation”.
“We’re not going to try and help them any more,” Gibson said. “Abramovich has been kicked out of football and Bruce Buck should be kicked out of football, too.”
A further Middlesbrough statement read:
“We are aware of Chelsea’s request to have Saturday’s Emirates FA Cup sixth round tie played behind closed doors and find their suggestion both bizarre and without any merit whatsoever.
“All concerned are well aware of the reasons Chelsea have been sanctioned and that this has nothing to do with Middlesbrough Football Club.
“To suggest as result that MFC and our fans should be penalised is not only grossly unfair but without any foundation.
“Given the reasons for these sanctions, for Chelsea to seek to invoke sporting ‘integrity’ as reason for the game being played behind closed doors is ironic in the extreme.
“We currently await formal notification from the FA of the next steps but rest assured MFC will resist Chelsea's actions in the strongest terms.”
Steve Gibson, the Middlesbrough chairman, has responded furiously to Chelsea’s request to play their FA Cup quarter-final match at the Riverside Stadium behind closed doors, telling The Athletic that “Chelsea and sporting integrity do not belong in the same sentence.”
That statement brought a withering response from Gibson, the Teesside native who played a pivotal role in rescuing Middlesbrough from liquidation in 1986 and continues to bankroll the Championship club.
“Chelsea and sporting integrity do not belong in the same sentence,” he told The Athletic. “Where is the intellect of Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, who has been an apologist for his owner, where the trophies won over 19 years have come from the corrupt money provided by Abramovich?
“Where is the intellect of the chairman of Chelsea when it comes to playing his games at home in front of his season ticket holders? Does he want to play all his away games at empty stadiums?”
Chelsea admitted in their statement that Middlesbrough “had been kind enough to extend their deadline for ticket sales and stadium allocation”.
“We’re not going to try and help them any more,” Gibson said. “Abramovich has been kicked out of football and Bruce Buck should be kicked out of football, too.”
A further Middlesbrough statement read:
“We are aware of Chelsea’s request to have Saturday’s Emirates FA Cup sixth round tie played behind closed doors and find their suggestion both bizarre and without any merit whatsoever.
“All concerned are well aware of the reasons Chelsea have been sanctioned and that this has nothing to do with Middlesbrough Football Club.
“To suggest as result that MFC and our fans should be penalised is not only grossly unfair but without any foundation.
“Given the reasons for these sanctions, for Chelsea to seek to invoke sporting ‘integrity’ as reason for the game being played behind closed doors is ironic in the extreme.
“We currently await formal notification from the FA of the next steps but rest assured MFC will resist Chelsea's actions in the strongest terms.”
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