OhForAGreavsie

Those tickets will be sold to Palace season ticket holders and members only. If you're not on that database you can't buy a ticket for Wembley.

Thanks. The linked article sounds authoritative. Assuming it is correct then that is that.

I see thanks. It's just curiosity on part because I wouldn't expect non-Brits to phrase a sentence the way you did. As for the the owners my take is that the following are entry level requirements. It's not that any bidder wins by offering these things; it's that no bid will even be considered unless it includes all of: Deep pockets. High calibre, competent, experienced people. Commitment to building a new stadium. Commitment to doing what is necessary to keep CFCM & CFCW competitive domestically and in Europe. Commitment to maintaining Cobham's standards. Commitment to retaining Thomas Tuchel. Commitment to retaining Neil Bath. Commitment to attempting to retain Maria Granaskaia. Commitment to continue the 'good citizen' behaviour the club has stood for under Roman. Commitment to non-executive fan involvement at board level. Commitment to working with the CPO. Commitment to retaining Peter Osgood's statue as a feature of any rebuild whether at Stamford Bridge or elsewhere. Once the bidders have been whittled down to only those consortia matching these criteria, then we set about deciding which one is the best.

Viera is bound to request that Chelsea clear Connor to play in the semi-final. What do people think, should we?

Hello Fernando, You wrote this like a Brit but I always though you were an American. Am I wrong? 🙂

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You are probably right about this though I confess I have not seen it the same way as you. Perhaps it's my overwhelming anger at the situation preventing me thinking clearly. The 'special license' talks about maintaining the integrity of the competitions. It then goes on to impose the stupid ban on ticket sales which is completely contrary to that and other aims it sets out. The club's best response to this hypocrisy would probably have been just to point it out and leave it at that. In my state of fury however I did not blame them calling for The FA to protect the game's integrity when the government attacked it. One year I'm going to get over this and calm down but it won't be this year.

I loved that goal from start to finish, very definitely including the finish. Loved the way Rom organised his feet to line up the tap in.

A point that we should have been thrown out of the competition because of Roman? If so I don't agree, to put it mildly.

Hello Spurs, you alright?

I've never had a bad word to say about Gibson before but he's switched off his brain and let himself get caught up in the tidal wave of crap. I'm surprised at him.

Hello FB, Ordinarily I don't like to swear in my posts but I don't remember ever being as angry about anything in football as I am about the way our club is being treated currently. For the first time in my life my attitude to non-Chelsea people is fuck 'em all. My head is spinning with all the bollocks spouting from the cunts in every direction. I'd love us to score another couple of goals and finish the game in the near empty stadium we briefly asked for.

Sad but true.

Are they drawing the semi-finals at the same time? If so, I'd like to see City, Pool, Madrid & Munich in the same half of the draw and us in the other. Well, if you don't ask you don't get. 🙂

Which bit of what I wrote does 'not really' apply to?

This is factually accurate but Roman is largely to blame with his scatter gun transfer policy and £250m bill for sacking managers and their staffs. A more prudent approach can see Chelsea break even and remain competitive, That's even true, in the short term, without the stadium rebuild. In the medium term the rebuild is essential of course .

Forgive me Nikki, and please correct me if I'm wrong about this, but you don't seem particularly well informed about the present state of the Republican party. The most popular members of the party are fascists, religious nationalists, and truth deniers who have given up on democracy. The party does not even pretend to have policies anymore. It literally publishes no policy positions and instead will simply lie to its base with the aim of making them fearful and angry toward whoever the party want them to hate. The most popular broadcaster among Republicans is pro Putin, pro Orban, pro Modi and, of course, pro Trump. Fascists one and all as, plainly, is he. When sued for inaccuracies his lawyers successfully defended him by pleading that no reasonable person would believe what he says during his show and the judge accepted that plea. Nevertheless, tens of millions of Americans do believe him, and only him. Further, Republicans are fewer than 50% of the US population. This is why they have given up on democracy. They know that if the don't cheat, and they do cheat massively, they can't win. Even then, they can only win the presidency because of the electoral collage. There is no hope of any republican winning the popular vote in a presidential election. Fascists, actual neo-Nazi's and white supremacists would once have been booted out of the GOP, now they are its stars.

Yep, sort term priority A1.

No doubt part of the rush is that people are smelling the blood of a forced sale and a potentially good deal for themselves.

Lorenzo, I have forwarded your request to someone who would be an excellent contributor to your piece. I will reply again if that person is interested.

Unless I'm misremembering this, Roman is challenging the decision to sanction him in the first place. That means the government would have to keep the proceeds of the sale available to be returned to him should he win.

Somebody somewhere is showing their true colours. So much for the bollocks that the aim of the sanctions was to target Roman alone, not the club or fans. It won't have escaped the government's notice that, apart from Chelsea fans, the witch hunt is playing very well with the public.

Assuming this is true it would be a total deal breaker for me.

To return to the CL format which featured a second group stage? I'd be in favour of that. Never wanted that to be changed in the first place. To be fair there was much rejoicing when that change was made with people saying they preferred a return to the straight knockout format of the old Champions Cup but I said then, and since, that the European Champions Cup was a Micky Mouse tournament compared to the Champions League. The double group stage gave us more games between the big sides. I loved the one season that Chelsea competed in that format.

That's Roman dressed for a posh night out, not 'dishevelled' at all. 🙂