Originally Posted by
niko_cee
Having to form a view on the relative morality of your club's owner is a bit of a 21st century phenomenon, so it's understandable that standard CLEARLY A PENALTY myopia drifts in.
That said, I do sort of understand the Chelsea whataboutery. Abramovich maybe a bad man, I don't know, he's certainly a shrewd operator and undoubtedly flirted with the bounds of legitimate behaviour to amass his fortune [as did everyone who benefited in the post-Soviet carve-up in all likelihood and it's hardly new information] - but there are other 'ownerships' [chiefly the Saudis] who are straight-up bad guys. Maybe the City mob too, I don't know. All the hand wringing because some lunatic has started a war seems a bit off to me in some ways when 81 executions in a day is completely OK.
Chelsea complaining about sporting integrity is a bit like that Russian statement after someone tore down their gates in Dublin though.