Now I’ve double confirmed it. You really are the thickest piece of shit around. Truly impressive. You make Harold look like a symbol of logic and reason.Originally Posted by Bam
Now I’ve double confirmed it. You really are the thickest piece of shit around. Truly impressive. You make Harold look like a symbol of logic and reason.
That is suspicious to me. It just incentivises the government to rush the sanctions through quicker, lest they be accused of letting him CASH IN, so I'm leaning towards thinking it's a work.
Yeah I can’t imagine the government giving rich Russians a heads up. They’d never do that. It’s not like the Prime Minister spends his holidays on Lebvedevs boat. It’s almost like this money goes quite high up.
The emoji you were looking for is ‘I was wrong, sorry’.
The United Kingdom struggles to deport murderers. The idea that it could just confiscate a geezer's football club without falling foul of a million wanky laws... It's a work mate. Give it two weeks, Russia wins, all the freaks will move on (probably back to covid). No worries.
Your contrarianism gets so tiresome. If it goes through he gets his 1.5 billion back. If it doesn’t and this goes away then he’s set the market because he’s been long done with it since novichok times.
Maybe Vince McMahon will buy it.
Strange period of time where the government almost ends up owning Liverpool after the RBS/Wachovia shit and ends up getting its hands on Chelsea by way of confiscation 10 years later.
Fabricant for Chelsea chairman.
I was thinking, if anything this whole situation with Roman kinds shows that sports washing doesn't really work. Roman could have easily just have bought 10 London properties instead and remained relatively off the radar. Buying Chelsea has done nothing for his (or Russia's) image. I suppose it somewhere opened up the market to other shady businessmen, but I'm not sure that was exclusively a Russian problem.
All hail the Saudi's.
Tbf it was going pretty well until his pal started cluster bombing orphanages.
If the Saudis ever got into a war people care about, we'd be in the same boat.
The Saudis must be kicking themselves at having bought Newcastle now.
I dunno. It's a bigger deal to strike with higher expectations. Not that the Saudis are a modest lot. Plus the Premier League would still hold it back for a year.
I think sportswashing is less about 'image' in the sense of being on the cover of Vogue, and more about encouraging people to do business with your very dodgy country/region. As such I don't think the oligarchs are really sports washers. Just money launderers.
The worst sportswashers are the Gulf states, Saudi, Azerbaijan etc who are trying to make legitimate in rich western eyes their often-brutal regimes.
Yeah, that's why a Grand Prix works better than buying a club. You bring people in to attend and then build a tourism industry off the back of it. I'd go to Azerbaijan. The castle looks lovely. Saudi Arabia can't compete with that.
I’d say Stan Kroenke has had more people killed and ruined more lives than Abramovic.
How so? Dodgy farm machinery? Roman's done a bit of bastardry in his time, mainly in the 90s.
I'd never heard of Jesse Marsch, so I just looked him up. Leipzig's record before/after him is a comical indictment to how inept he seems to be. Leeds are going to finish bottom.
If only Leeds had spent five minutes on Wikipedia.
I just Wiki'd Kroenke to see who he'd murdered and didn't see much at a glance but spotted this which I entirely missed at the time:
https://www.theguardian.com/football...rom-tv-channel
Stan Kroenke, the owner of Arsenal, has ordered his new TV streaming service to stop showing big-game hunting.
Kroenke has been heavily criticised after the UK launch of MyOutdoorTV, which is run by Outdoor Sportsman Group (OSG), part of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, because it shows videos of hunters with dead animals.
I remember the heady days of our recruitment policy being based on Football Manager potential ratings.
United should be in for that woman who runs Chelsea if there is an executive collapse/refresh.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60605957
Fucking lol. The best bit is that Goodwillie was already at Clyde when the women's team was formed.
Fantastic
Presumably at that level the sort of piddling incomes provided by sponsors etc. makes any boycott a bit of a weak threat compared to the prospect of being promoted or just winning enough games to get a few extra tickets sold. Do the people who can't understand it miss that?
It’s a shame he couldn’t keep his dick in his trousers or stop himself from knocking out bouncers as he was genuinely brilliant player. Would have went for more to Blackburn if the whole rape court case didn’t happen.
Still, he’s a hero for 2010 if nothing
Palace/Everton
Forrest or Huddersfield/Liverpool
Middlesbrough/Chelsea
Southampton/Man City
Chelsea/Liverpool final again it is. They both couldn’t have had 3 easier games if they tried so far
No posts about the new Champions League format then?
It sounds like a lot of football.
It's weird.
That sounds worse.
Pathetic.
As if the group stages weren't dull enough, yeah sure let's turn it into a league. Great.
What a load of bollocks.
Seems the FA have done a good job in keeping the big sides apart and on track for the semis, for the most part.
We've already seen off Man Utd and Tottenham so there's no reason why we won't dump out Chelsea as well.
Our year.
Another home tie, too. Two sell-outs in the space of a month. Exciting times.
The problem with the caption in the tweet is that it is quite clearly broken. The Swiss thing should be better tbh. In theory pretty much every game will matter. The issue is the 100 additional games bit. They need to bin the league cup or something off.
Can’t see it lasting so whoever wins the first one or two in that format should get a special edition trophy.
I'm a twit
Another fan down.
If I play my cards right, I can grab a season ticket from one of these.
Do they still leave seats open for them plane crash fans?
The new CL format seems like they copied the ESL's homework.
I assume that went quietly away as soon as we stopped clapping for them. Plus who's going to renew that and not sit there?
New Champions League format sounds fucking shite.
Didn't everyone think the Nations League was a load of wank and then end up rather liking it?
Does everybody like the Nations League?
I mean, it's better than friendlies but so's chucking a bucket of water on the drive and listening to it dry.
I think it loses something by being an annual competition. The novelty was good. The novelty is gone.
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