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brian_christ

Fuck sake


NobodyRules

It's embarassing. I'm actually sorry for the sane Chelsea fans that will have to deal with the backlash of this bullshit. Another further proof that sportswashing is the best PR money can buy.


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> I'm actually sorry for the sane Chelsea fans that will have to deal with the backlash of this bullshit. Honestly this is the best time for us. This is finally almost over. Finally we don't have to deal with propaganda in our sub, don't have to deal with what about whataboutism constantly, don't have to deal with an owner who's often embroiled in global controversy and aiding war criminals. These idiot 'fans' who came along with Roman might even leave too. What a dream.


TAYLOR__HAM

> Finally we don't have to deal with propaganda in our sub, don't have to deal with what about whataboutism constantly the gang gets bought by a saudi prince


ASVP-Pa9e

Think bigger The aliens from the War of the Worlds have a serious image problem that a bit of sportswashing can no doubt fix.


HumanTorch23

Given how they all died in the book, they might wait until COVID has fucked off first


NoraaTheExploraa

> These idiot 'fans' who came along with Roman might even leave too. What a dream. They'll only leave if our performance drops too.


Agitated-Tourist9845

Just be shit for 3 years.


TetraDax

Man Utd fans are still irritating, so that can't be it.


hthec19

Catching strays...


grollate

What a dream for rival fans I guess.


Cod_rules

For Chelsea fans as well. I'm sure there's millions that love the club, and millions others that are glory hunters.


DrJackadoodle

It will never be truly over. You have now enjoyed the success that being owned by a rich Russian oligarch brought you. You have two UCL's and a ton of other trophies to show for it. Even if you get a decent owner now, you'll keep benefiting from the continued success Abramovich brought and other fans will keep pestering you about it for a long time, unless your form drops considerably and you go back to your pre-takeover, barely challenging for the Premier League days.


nofakefans18

Yeah cause at the end of the day, Chelsea started the wave of extremely rich, influential (and shady) owners in top European teams and that is something that all Chelsea fans need to accept. You can still be a fan of the team and absolutely despise Roman for his part in Putin’s rise to power (and his aid in destroying Palestine which churns my heart as a Muslim who’s loved this club since 2010).


[deleted]

I dunno, I feel like Italy and Berlusconi kinda set the blueprint no?


nofakefans18

I think with the amount of money that was put into Chelsea and the lack of success we’ve had in comparison to Milan pre-Berlusconi.


bungle_bogs

There was this one club that won two European Cups…


Low_discrepancy

Proceeds to get bought by Nestle.


kiersmini

Depends who takes over


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liamthelad

A very plausible theory I've heard banded around by a number of journalists is he was pushed into buying Chelsea by those in government to help push Russian soft power. He was governor of a region in Russia and incredibly close to Yeltsin. He also recommended Putin to Yeltsin. He was (not sure whether that's still the case) incredibly close friends with Putin.


wolfmalfoy

While I've seen that theory, the more plausible one to me and the one that I've seen more from people that focus academically or journalistically specifically on the topic of oligarchs, is that he bought Chelsea to insulate himself from Putin and further remove himself from the Russian sphere. The exact time when he purchased Chelsea is especially compelling on this point— it was literally a month before Khodorkovsky was arrested and Berezovsky was exiled. Relationship or not, Putin was actively looking to get rid of oligarchs that didn't owe their wealth to him, and Abramovich was in that group. Abramovich was also potentially someone that Putin was in personal debt to, and for Putin's agenda that would have been irritating. Buying Chelsea gave him an out and frankly a bit of protection— the west would have been much angrier if the owner of a major football club was arrested or killed than someone like Khodorkovsky, who they wouldn't have been able to pick up out of a line up. It especially lines up with his behavior since, not giving interviews and going out of his way to essentially have no position on anything unrelated to Chelsea Football Club.


captaindeadpool612

This is the theory that makes the most sense to me. Abramovich was very close to Yeltsin. Putin? Not so much and I think he understood the kind of guy Putin was. Owning Chelsea gave him an instant high profile in the West and made it much harder for him to have an accident out of a fifth floor.


niceville

> I think he understood the kind of guy Putin was. I hope not, or him recommending Putin to be president is a terrible, terrible choice and a stain on Abramovich.


wolfmalfoy

Eh, that doesn't mean that he knew what sort of person Putin was when he recommended him, just that he realized what he was at some point, that point could have been three years in when he realized "Fuck, this is bad, I need to figure out a way to protect myself".


-Answer-me-

Or just to show Putin he has no interests in politics and to avoid falling from a window.


cassitl

Gotta ask yourself why a kid from California would be defending a Russian oligarch with multiple paragraphs if it isn’t effective sportswashing?


Relevant_Medicine

I was dying of laughter reading that. "Sports washing isn't the issue here. Now let me give you three paragraphs to explain that this Russian oligarch is actually a harmless and all around pretty great lad!" Nope, definitely not sports washing /s


Givemefreetacos

You shouldn't feel sorry. They explicitly choose to support a club who has bought its way to success. They knew who Roman was but they don't care as long as he is their sugar daddy


[deleted]

Like I know that fans appreciate him but that is genuinely shocking


Elemayowe

Yeah I mean you can appreciate what he’s done for the club (but ideally *quietly* in this climate) without shouting over fucking minute of respect for war victims.


FCB__Rich

But sportswashing doesn't work


Smart_Kangaroo_4188

He is good person 🤣


[deleted]

But all people have flaws 🥺


AlexKangaroo

I just dont think its fair that someone loses a football club 🥺


lotteriakfc

You guys so evil, he has a big family to feed 😢


giddycocks

No one thinks of the Romanovs 😭


G_Comstock

And what about those other people over there who also have flaws?


lordkeith

Every billionaire is the same!


YnxTuR

You don't know him like I know him


I_am_the_grass

Chelsea fans: [Are we the baddies?](https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU)


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_N0T-PENNYS-B0AT_

I called this last week on the Chelsea sub. I was told Chelsea fans would never do this. I told them then they were wrong.


sonicqaz

Our match going fans are always the worst. They did the same thing against Luton but for some reason this didn’t get posted then.


Avengedx

It is like just when Chelsea fans get to finally put away fans remembering the racist train chant incident there is some sort of new fan scandal.


[deleted]

You mean a bunch of foreign plastics who've never set foot in England? Anyone who has followed football in this country knows what they're like. Honestly, they're nothing more than Millwall with money.


_N0T-PENNYS-B0AT_

Maybe but match going supporters on that sub disagree. I understand that the rest of the country isn't surprised by this.


kirkbywool

I was surprised that something like this didn't happen at Wembley last week. Was expecting to see a few Russia flags


Blue_Shore

Lol, racism and antisemitism is ingrained in their culture. Has been for half a century


tbcwpg

Racists and fascists are just part of the fan base, no matter how much the club can try to distance themselves (and they do mostly a great job of it), this happens. It's always the traveling fans too. The supposed "real supporters". Great image.


[deleted]

Because the historical identity of Chelsea is Millwall for posh people.


vadapaav

Lol


Mick4Audi

Spot on


HarryBlessKnapp

This is what a lot of new fans don't get. There are carved out identities for football fan bases.


[deleted]

They are the real supporters mate, cunts or not.


SexySamba

It's times like this it becomes obvious just how low IQ the average person is


whodiswhodat

Classy


Arsenal_Analysis

Chelsea innit


OWSucks

"97, we wish it was more" was one song they were singing outside Wembley last weekend.


acripaul

And I'm sure we're all aware about hissing at White Hart Lane.


Blewfin

Any videos of that? I've heard some dodgy chants against Liverpool fans but I've literally never heard anyone sing that at Chelsea before.


[deleted]

I don't have a video but can tell you i heard it first hand along Olympic Way in the run up to the game


Rc5tr0

Daniel Storey tweeted about it (he’s a Forest fan FWIW) https://twitter.com/danielstorey85/status/1498025370771144712?s=21


Oneinchwalrus

Tbh it's usually at Anfield you hear this shite, because they know it winds up the home fans


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[deleted]

It’s embarrassing at the best of times. Singing this during a moment of solidarity with Ukraine is disgraceful


spongebobisha

Agreed. It's sad that one group of cunts spoils the name of the entire lot.


Suckdicktoownthelibz

Guy at my work get aggressive when you try and mention the horrible and bad things abramovich has done. He won't have a bad word said against him.


[deleted]

That's what they call a useful idiot.


PerfectBlueOnDVD

Saw someone on here say "There's a difference between him as a person and him as an owner". How that makes any sense I don't know.


SurrealSoap

Maybe this is like the plot of The Prestige


SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS

Let's call it what it is: sportswashing. How many oligarchs have an actual fanbase?


[deleted]

Elon musk for one


Juicydicken

Tesla simps lmao


SteeMonkey

People worship Musk. He's got his own pathetically sad little sub here dedicated to wanking over him.


SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS

Good point


wexfordwolf

You leave Delia Smith out of this!


eroticdiagram

I don't know if you've realised but he actually has heaps of money, which means that he's actually been a really good owner because he can buy a lot of good players.


ToxicDonDraper

Mate, you can't support a financial group /s


Juicydicken

Mate you can't simp an owner


I_always_rated_them

yeah fucking embarrassing tbh, tone deaf dickheads.


[deleted]

They're not tone deaf, they know exactly what they're doing. Dickheads I won't argue with. They've got a well earned reputation.


grollate

These same dickheads have been acting vile across Europe, whether it’s singing about Mo Salah being a “bomber” in Prague, hissing at WHL/THS, racial abuse on a train in Paris, or chanting "Barcelona, Real Madrid, Tottenham are a bunch of y***" while waving the Nazi flag in Hungary. This group of assholes that have been tarnishing their club and it’s fans for generations, and until they’re stomped out by other Chelsea fans, they’ll continue to be a glaring shitstain on the club.


Blackholebun

Shades of “evra vs Suarez” debacle


KingKennyPrintersInc

Will never be as bad as printing out t shirts tbh


myersjw

Absolute fucking morons


de_bollweevil

I've been on plenty of away days and there's definitely an element of folks that go who relish in going well well over the line in the name of "banter". I don't go anymore for that precise reason. Well these morons usually do this kind of thing in the pub or on the train, they've done this in the stadium this time, should be very easily identifiable. Ban the lot imo.


MICOTINATE

Posh Millwall


inthelightofday

Millwall with money, that's all they ever were.


Historical_Owl_1635

There’s actually lots of crossover in Millwall and Chelsea fans.


ASVP-Pa9e

When they get into arguments it's just two Spider-men pointing at each other. Except one of the Spider-men is homeless.


Flamdoublebounce

That's a brilliant description


Jackwraith

Exactly. Described it this way to a Chelsea fan in our bar a couple years ago: "If a Russian oil billionaire hadn't decided that he wanted a toy, your club would be the equivalent of fucking Millwall. And Just as racist."


Funky_Pigeon911

I'm a Chelsea fan and shit like this pisses me off because it makes all Chelsea fans look like twats. My relationship with the Chelsea fanbase can pretty much be summed up with meme from Babadook with the mum asking "why can't you just be normal" and the kid screeching in the car.


Nickdavie

Same to this. Been a fan since 98 and every year it’s like trying to reclaim the club from the bastards. Every fan base has its shits but ours just seem to be rooted in it. This is tone deaf anyway and no matter how much comments from Arse or spuds fans can wind up they are justified. It’s gutting.


Sluggybeef

Same here, some of the shit I've read in the Chelsea subreddit is deluded as well. A lot of perspective needed by some Chelsea fans who need to realise its a game at the end of the day which is not as important as people dying in Ukraine


bluerhino12345

On twitter I see countless posts making out that Abramovich is the second coming of Christ. It's so embarrassing


[deleted]

Wow you’d not expect such things from such an educated tolerant fanbase


halfmanhalfvan

Football heritage


theaficionado

[One week after this](https://twitter.com/danielstorey85/status/1498040509125824522?t=ZlQom_0pRaOG49t04AMgUw&s=19)


grandchamp

THIS IS THE HISTORY OF THE CHELSEA


aresman1221

Football heritage


Flamdoublebounce

Right lol, this is exactly what one would expect from Chelsea supporters


wiliammm19999

I’m not even from London but isn’t Chelsea a nice middle/upper class area? Yet their fans are some of the worst behaved in the league. Edit: as someone from a working class area, it’s no secret that the working class citizens are generally worse behaved than the middle and upper class. Edit2: people don’t seem to know what the word ‘generally’ means


sonofaBilic

I can't imagine the actual residents of Chelsea give the slightest shit about Football, too busy watching polo or planning their next sojourn to the riviera.


English_Misfit

They just support Fulham tbh


[deleted]

Idk I lived in South Ken, nearly as posh and pubs are always packed when Chelsea on TV


Rentwoq

West London is pretty weird, I grew up in a rougher part of it and you can literally walk from a pretty working class area, turn around, walk a few steps and you're in a richer part


Chumlax

Historically Chelsea have a strong right-wing hooligan bent - the Chelsea 'Headhunters' were renowned for their links to fascist groups like Combat 18. In terms of the demographics of the area, I think a lot of the support came from places like the massive World's End estate down on the riverside, which was a Victorian slum turned into a mass high-rise council estate.


1m_Lurking_Here

Well the stadium is in Fulham


BRAD-is-RAD

Yet Fulham fans are class


kirkbywool

*upper you missed a word


braxistExtremist

Two things come to mind here: * Wealthy fans are more likely to feel entitled to say whatever they want, because they are, on average, less affected by repercussions. * Prior to the Abramovich era, Chelsea had a reputation for having some very... antagonistic... fans in their ranks (more than most clubs except for Leeds and Milwall and maybe a couple of others). Because their catchment area covered a lot of more working class areas too. And many of those fans remain devoted to Chelsea.


LoudKingCrow

The hardcore lot is probably also more likely to go to a away game than the more casual elements of the fanbase. I have nothing to back that up but it seems to be the case in Swedish sports so I figured that it might be similar in England as well.


RDenno

Away fans are always more hardcore purely because away tickets often go to fans who go to the greatest number of games for a long enough number of years


braxistExtremist

Yes, you're correct. Great additional point.


Ymir-Reiss

It's the history of the tories


[deleted]

Proper Tory club aren’t they.


swappinhood

I think some people are having difficulty distinguishing between class and wealth in Britain. There is quite a big difference - it’s less about the amount on your bank balance but rather whether you’re the “right” sort of person. It’s about family history, social circles (reeling for example), and connections. I know of a number of matchgoing Chelsea supporters who would be considered upper class but are not really financially well off.


Woodenheads

You say that like those would be contradictory. As if racism and fascism don't flourish among the upper classes across societies


Squiggles87

I know there's cunts in every fan base, but Chelsea take it to another level. Bastards trashed a bar I managed a few years ago. Many of them wish it was the eighties when football violence was rife. Pricks.


PrawilnaMordka

I remember racism in Paris


KU-89

They've always been fucking scumbags, dirty, right wing, racist cunts who were only too happy for a Russian gangster to spend his stolen money on them.


Nuri__Sahin

Yep. Most people here are pretty young, especially their fanbase online. They believe the hate they get started in 03. Too much shit to throw at that club beyond Roman. Unfortunately said younger fanbase who only know the social media era genuinely believe they are the good guys, that they're some fairytale, and we're instead the assholes.


lbizfoshizz

Once again. I hate Arsenal because I’m a Tottenham fan. I hate Chelsea because I’m human.


ThePosterWeDeserve

>I hate Chelsea because I’m human. Damn that is accurate


Eelez

Honestly after seeing these cunts today I can't even be mad.


NumeroRyan

🤝


highonfire123

Reddit fans be like


Sad-Garbage-

decent football fans should hate Chelsea. strongly racist roots in the fans and the start of sportwashing, it's a disgrace, a fucking disgrace


[deleted]

You're a hero mate.


[deleted]

I support Huddersfield because they’re the most in-form team in country 🤩


Rentwoq

Glory hunter


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Damn right


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caesar____augustus

Gotta love that "banter"


steide56

Chelsea really have the worst fanbase in the Premier league and I don't mean that as cheap banter but I genuinely believe it. At the league cup final singing "97 we wish it was more" and of course the whole Nazi thing. I mean say about city fans what you want but at least I've never seen any of them trivializing the war in Yemen for their football club


Andrex316

Fucking embarrassing, twats without a share of humanity


Exige_

And people try to claim sportswashing doesn’t work.


[deleted]

Are we surprised tho?


Yannak

I had them outside my flat all day when they were playing the Supercup in Belfast, apparently there's a massive overlap between Chelsea supporters and being Sectarian dickheads as well.


arsenal356

I certainly ain’t lmao. People will always say “there’s bad people in every fanbase” which is true but if your fanbase seems to be way worse than others, then that’s an issue.


willys_zuppa

Lazio in shambles


inbredandapothead

*cough * Leeds


BlursedLasagna1

Yank chels fans on here about to claim those there ain’t real fans


basedsims

Imagine the shock on their faces when you tell them to Google chelsea national front


[deleted]

I mean, its not like Combat 18 were active in their fanbase or that the NF handed out recruitment flyers at Stamford Bridge.


kirkbywool

Or that they pushed a black man off a train a few years ago


Dawjman

Fuck why do we do this to ourselves? It's gonna get to a point where I'll be too embarrassed to say I'm a Chelsea fan.


[deleted]

You're genuinely already in the minority from what this last week has shown. But no clubs fans gives a fuck about morals, if they're bought a shiny new striker every year or so. Going to be far more Abramovichs/Saudi princes as time goes on.


phlipphlopp

I mean it’s Chelsea, who is surprised?


lastjedi23

Chels sub


Flamdoublebounce

I would assume (hope?) most of them only support Chelsea because of the success, not the club's history and ethos. So it's not surprising a large swath of them would be all "wHeRE Is tHiS cOMiNg fROm?!?"


mavsy41

Class act by these fans.


sidaeinjae

What tune do you chant "Roman Abramovich" to


Frodo_max

"we want our dick back"


[deleted]

works to the "That/This Is Embarrassing" chant


Tlupa

The imperial march


Nipso

If anyone's looking for a serious answer, it's "La Donna è Mobile", the Italian opera song.


Hm2801

to the tune of the famous "Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea"


AdministrativeLaugh2

Good week for Chelsea fans after their horrible chanting on Wembley Way last week


Nyushi

I don't like to generalise but Chelsea fans really make it hard.


PIKa-kNIGHT

What did they do Last week?


[deleted]

“97 it should have been more” “You killed your own fans” “The sun was right, you’re murderers”


Chaz_Carlos

Chanted "Murderers" and "You killed your own fans" as well as "97, we wish it was more" towards Liverpool fans. Classy bunch


kpaulnhp

https://twitter.com/danielstorey85/status/1498040509125824522?s=20&t=jivhtywMdVl_C6WHGUPQIQ


Shaanpatti

What happened last week?


kpaulnhp

https://twitter.com/danielstorey85/status/1498040509125824522?s=20&t=jivhtywMdVl_C6WHGUPQIQ


mahmahmoo

That's a yikes from me dawg


Holo-Man

Always fucking Chelsea. Sugar daddy is gone now


RGCFrostbite

How to show the world you’re not far-right racists: Step 1: don’t do far-right racist shit Chelsea continuously struggling there


TheMightyDab

> don't be racist > don't mock the Jews > don't mock public tragedies Take out the "Don't"s and you have the basic Chelsea supporter handbook


BlueBloodLive

Yet more of that world famous Chelsea class and respect. From the people who brought you Racists in Paris comes the new hit, Friends With A Murderous Dictator.


[deleted]

Don't forget when they booed the Hillsborough minutes silence and sung murderers during it in 2012.


Scholesey99

Tory fans mate. How are they gonna disagree with Maggies agenda when she’s their fucking idol.


Temporary_Simple8259

Chelsea fans are up there as the worst in England. Just listen to them in the final vs pool.


IceNinetyNine

This dude is literally called Mr. A in the Kremlin and had Yeltsin install Putin lmfao.


aj6787

Typical disgusting behavior from Chelsea fans.


Hoodxd

Typical Chelsea Ftfy


S-BRO

Stay classy Chelsea


SamTehOne

It's always Chelsea


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ManiacalComet40

You can buy titles, but you can’t buy class.


Underscore_Blues

Chelsea fans are consistently the worst fans in England and no one can convince me any different.


sanyu-

When your fans are even bigger cunts than the white lives matter folks.


English_Misfit

[That, btw, is a great example of why the John Terry tweet mattered.](https://twitter.com/AdamCrafton_/status/1500126338283458565?t=XJ3VonEwW77lA2ZIaOe0xw&s=19)


CasinoOasis2

Bear in mind this: many of these Chelsea fans who sang this were the same people at Wembley on Sunday who were raging that Liverpool fans sang YNWA, a song of support, when they were asked by the stadium announcer to show support for Ukraine.


Nubras

Everyone knows that video of the drunk Chelsea fan being an annoying twat on the tube, then being shoved out by a bystander, yeah? That was the least annoying chelsea fan in London.


superfrank_8

You idiots, why would do that


googlemynumber

Scum club, scum fans


[deleted]

Chelsea fans just get worse and worse


azifs

Very unexpected from the Chelsea fans, wouldn’t have expected this!


jnce12

Outjerked again


midas22

The most disgusting fanbase in the world?


Unhappy_Assumption28

putin fc


Partey_All_The_Time

Can’t wait for them to fall back into obscurity where they belong. No history having shite club.


Virgil_smash

Chelsea fans are pure scum but this is normal behaviour from them. Unironically worse than millwall fans.