THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

There is obviously a bigger issue, but should that cost the people that work in the club shop, or the ticket office, or the stewards, or the hospitality workers, etc, etc, etc, their jobs ?

Abramovich is the target, target Abramovich.

I agree it’s unfortunate for the staff but you can’t target Russian owned businesses without affecting staff. Russian banks in London have UK staff who are affected too.

As I say, there’s a much bigger picture.

I’m certainly not shedding tears for people who are crying because they can’t watch their football team. Just go and watch another one.

I agree it’s my general attitude to football. I dislike tribalism, that’s true, butI do accept that others have a different view. I’m still entitled to put my view forward.

But surely even you see that this situation is different. Loyalty towards a football club is surely trivial compared to the bigger picture here.

Why ? It’s clearly nowhere near as simple as this but the govt could assume ownership of the club, set a price, person(s) pay the price and take ownership of the club, money goes to Ukraine, job done. Collateral damaged is minimised, Abramovich is out of the picture and out of pocket.

Should they do that for every Russian owned business that’s been affected or just football?

We’re talking about Chelsea/Abramovich.

My last post on the matter.

I think it’s incredibly crass of football fans to complain about being inconvenienced.

The company I work for has a subsidiary in Ukraine. I spoke to someone today who had been speaking to the person doing my equivalent job in that subsidiary. From a bunker in Kiev.

I agree, although I’ve not actually heard of any doing that.

I think it’s incredibly crass to ignore that fact that peoples livelihoods are being affected and focus on the fans.

Kyiv

(fuck, I've waited 10 years to finally be the pedant. But it feels petty).

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

Ignoring Chelski for a minute. All the oligarchs that got rich in Russia in the 90's are complete shits. Criminal bastards. But... my concern is that our government are (far too late!!) hitting the oligarchs and hoping the public think that's hitting Putin.

It isn't. IT ISN'T.

Putin is no longer reliant on the crooks. He has already targeted some of them himself. He is now surrounded and supported by military and security people. That's his background. That's his gang. It's the people that think like him, that he trusts, that share the same world-view. Not the people like RA. Hitting Chelsea is purely showboating politics for Boris and co.

Yes, go put the squeeze on crooks, 20 years too late. But that's not going to make Putin squirm.

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.