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Roman Abramovich hands over ‘stewardship and care’ of Chelsea football club

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marsh said:
Should have allowed them have away fans and give the tickets away for free
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The problem with that is, I understand it the way these things work is that away teams pay the home team for tickets upfront and then recoup that outlay by selling them to their own fans. As Chelsea are sanctioned they can't buy the tickets even if they wanted to give them away, the only way that would happen is if Middlesboro let them have the tickets for free themselves which I can't see them being happy with. So unless Boro are happy to sell them directly to Chelsea fans they are stuck.
 

Placing restrictions on travel expenditure is a slightly strange scenario - unless they thought there was a prospect of Chelsea handing over money normally allocated for travel to Abramovich! Given that they are also required to itemise all expenditure over £5K they clearly wouldn't be able to hide (the difference between the normal £60K they spend and £20K limit..)

Strikes me a a punitive measure placed on the trading entity (and its employees) rather than the owner. Perhaps Chelsea will be spending Saturday night in the local Premier Inn before taking the slow Sunday train back to King's Cross.
 
GoldenToffee said:
Just reading more about just how corrupt Abramovich really is and how he cheated and committed fraud to obtain his billions. Unbelievable really, and how he was welcomed to Britain and allowed to invest his ill-gotten gains in this country.

So now we know for sure that all of the success Chelsea has enjoyed for 20 years has been due to the money from a crook who cheated and conned his way to wealth.

I know it's not the fans who should be punished for this, but I genuinely think every single trophy won by Chelsea since 2003 needs to be wiped off their record and they should go into administration, transfer ban for several years and sent to the bottom of the football pyramid.

We finished 4th that season and had to play in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League. If Roman's money hadn't have been there we'd have been third, straight into the group stages and who knows where that may have led us financially.

The club cannot get away with this. His wealth has always been questioned, and Chelsea willingly sold to a man with huge question marks about where his money came from.
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2009 FA Cup should be stripped off of them as well
 
Spart said:
The problem with that is, I understand it the way these things work is that away teams pay the home team for tickets upfront and then recoup that outlay by selling them to their own fans. As Chelsea are sanctioned they can't buy the tickets even if they wanted to give them away, the only way that would happen is if Middlesboro let them have the tickets for free themselves which I can't see them being happy with. So unless Boro are happy to sell them directly to Chelsea fans they are stuck.
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Just read an explanation of this that made sense - it's a problem for this game because Chelsea bought the tickets for this one before the sanctions, and that explains why they have a few hundred as they were on the autocup type scheme. So Chelsea have the tickets but aren't allowed to sell them.

For future games it seems the direct sale option could be there, which makes sense for the fans
 

efcfanwirral said:
Just read an explanation of this that made sense - it's a problem for this game because Chelsea bought the tickets for this one before the sanctions, and that explains why they have a few hundred as they were on the autocup type scheme. So Chelsea have the tickets but aren't allowed to sell them.

For future games it seems the direct sale option could be there, which makes sense for the fans
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Would they be allowed to give away tickets? If so, I'm surprised they haven't done that as surely they would want their fans there
 
WA Toffee said:
Would they be allowed to give away tickets? If so, I'm surprised they haven't done that as surely they would want their fans there
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I'm finding the whole thing around tickets baffling. Talk of a half full Wembley - can't the FA just sell the tickets on their website as if it were a gig? Same for away games, though I guess you'd end up with home fans in there too if you opened up the system, though using Chelsea's list of season ticket holders would sort that and there's no reason for that to involve money going to Chelsea.

The last people who should be punished are the fans. There's no reason for them to miss out on games.
 

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