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Madrid minus Benzema torn apart in the el classico.

Ha'. If he wants to make a profit then it's worse than public ownership. In such cases we see teams making a spectacular trajectory and then slide backwards for years.

Why don't the department stores have shirts ? I can't find in Attica or Notos Gallery - only internet.

Candy-Gove, Abramovitch-Putin. What the heck ?

Next match: Newcastle

Will go through to the stage of four: Chelsea, Pool, City more likely than not, Villarreal

Why should football clubs have rich presidents ? Can someone explain this to me ? As you know I am antisocialist while also anti-brexit because brexit it's looney tunes. But just the same I 'm open minded. So in every team there could be a technocrat as president. An LSE graduate, not one who has barely finished high school. Also a team of football savvies to advise him, but none of them would be as rich as either Abramovitch or the Glaziers. If the club breaks even then we have Mandy and Kai Havertz in the team. If not then we have the Sutton goalkeeper and Drinkwater. How would that affect things ? What comes to mind is Man United in the Frank O Farrel year. Remember what happened then ? Many United stars left the team because they were getting old. Bobby Charlton, George Best, Stepney and others. As a result they had a very bad year and were relegated. But they came first in attendance ! Not Don Revie's Leeds United, not the new fangled European giants Liverpool, but United ! This means they could fix things by themselves, without the help of a millionaire investor. Or could n't they ? Also the ticket prices were flat for all the teams back in those days. The accepted modus operandi is of course that a rich guy is needed to run a club. Yet it does n't always work. Some of them are called "crabsmen" by the fans. What is the explanation ?

Next match Newcastle it says. That was eight matches ago.

The Pep team is pissed now. I want them.

Our record for free kicks from the semicircle is appalling. We have n't scored since Willian.

Final result: Lille 1 - Chelsea 4.

Depends what they call pens really. I remember in a match against United the ball was going in and hit the outstretched arm of a United defender on the line. But the United man was looking the other way, no pen, no protests, no protests in the forum either.

Does this thing count as a pen ? Unintentional - ball was going wide.

The idea of having rich managers is precisely because clubs do not break even. The club is supposed to act as an advertisement for the rich guy so he gives money to the club. This has been the case with all I remember. Otherwise a bunch of local co op girls could run the football clubs.

Not really, but in the grassroots they are that way - like the Tories, una faccia una razza.

Boris out in the hastings during pro-Putin campaign:

Kidnap Putin

I was referring to the general anti-Chelsea atmosphere of these days and how it works, not the pros and cons of oligarchy.

The Johnson government are desperately trying to un-Putin themselves, make it look brexit it was never a Putin job. The Labour opposition who also support brexit seem happy to follow and their supporters are after all supposed to hate all the rich.

M.U. were unlucky and Atletico who did not impress either were the lucky ones. But the way M.U. play is sh/t.

Well, I know the various Greek scandals so I 'm trying to play detective Hercules Poirot with the Abramovitch case. But one thing is for sure. He did n't cause the war or gained (!) from it.

There is some more to this story. You just can't buy something worth 2.7 billion for 250 million. One example: The totalizator of the Athens race course in 1995. An American company who had already won the bid in Cyprus makes an offer for 20 million. Intralot asks for 25 million, the totalizator will not become property of the racecourse but operated by Intralot on behalf of the race course so the race course will have to pay every month ! Intralot wins with the shaky excuse that they offer jobs to Greek workers. It was scandalous and we all know there was a lot of political wheeling and dealing. Then they do more. In the year 2001 they change all the displays to euros. But that was n't due till 2002 so they make them show first drachmas then euros, alternating. The result was awful-unreadable. But Intra got 2 million euros for it, for making the displays unreadeable and then they get paid more in 2002 to make them into proper euro displays. But all that is small money. Or the other Greek deal with the German built submarines at around the same time. There was bribing, some people were sentence to long prison sentences, but again it was small money when compared to the total cost of the subs. How can you pay 250 million for something worth 2.7 billion ? Nobody around to make another offer ? Then it was not worth 2.7 billion. If it was me I could easily double the bribes to the various officials and buy the snibneft for say 2.3 billion.

Next match at the bridge is April 2 against Brentford. If you go you can meet the season ticket holders and then you can go to a pub to talk more. No problem. Only on April 2 the sanctions may be over.

There is.