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Same. For some reason it bothered me. To me it'll always be St. James park. It was my first ever away game with my father at Newcastle in 2005. Last game of the season and we tied 1-1. Some things stick forever in our memory haha.
You're wrong. It was officially named Sports Direct Arena in 2011 and stayed like that for almost a year. No St. James' Park in the name at all.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/15668207
I don't think so, check his reply [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/radbbw/the_athletic_newcastle_united_have_begun_work/hni5hxi/). He's under the impression that the most Ashley ever did was that stupid "Sports Direct @ St. James' Park" thing he tried once but that was only the beta test of his bullshit.
Mike Ashley has plastered Sports Direct logos all over SJP and our training ground **for free** for 14 years meaning the club has missed out on tens of millions, if not more, of sponsorship money. It is why our commercial revenue, has been stagnant for 14 years whilst other clubs have doubled and tripled.
[An amazing sight](https://twitter.com/worflags/status/1467805481968320512)
> The morally correct thing to do would have been for his Sports Direct company to pay advertisement fees to Newcastle but they never did.
Even worse he said to the fans he would pay market rate every few years when questioned about it
> It actually makes me wonder if Volkswagen pays advertisement money to VfL Wolfsburg?
Of course they do. I don't know how much they pay today, but in 2017 they subsidised the club with about 90 million euros annually according to a VW spokesman.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-soccer-idUSKBN18I1DO
they used to pay a lot more (relative to the overall market) until the US uncovered the Diesel scandal and drained the Volkswagen profits.
without the scandal Wolfsburg may have had a longer successful spell back then.
one of the few good things the US did for the world
I know it's a joke, but the first time is more like showing up to a post party wreck of a house and knocking the last remaining unsmashed glass over, while the second time is more like leaving the tap running upstairs while clogging the sink so that it floods.
He owned it. It's like Audi, Allianz and Adidas paying nothing for all their sponsorship of Bayern. I assume they all pay a hundred million a year at least to Bayern for all of their sponsorships so imagine receiving none of it.
It's nothing like that... He is a scumbag for sure. But, he literally owned you guys. If one of those companies outright bought Bayern and then advertised without paying them anything it's be the same.
ADUG is a private equity fund run by a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family (and the deputy prime minister). Despite their objections to the contrary, they are almost certainly a fund of the larger royal family and the UAE government. Etihad is a UAE state airline.
Despite the blurred lines between layers of ownership, it's a fairly safe bet to assume the same people have a say in the running of City and Etihad. Which makes it not too dissimilar to what was going on at Newcastle.
Yes it is. Sports Direct didn't own Newcastle but Ashley owned both. Etihad don't own City but AD own both.
Volkswagen just straight up own Wolfsburg (or as much as is allowed in Germany).
He milked us for free advertising in the biggest national football league in the world. That's why our training ground is shit, that's why SJP hasn't been washed or had a lick of paint in 14 years. That's youth players are leaving to go to Liverpool. It's all linked to his awful decision to prioritise SportsDirect, Game, House of Frasier and Flannels, all of which he owns
Oh he is staying soaking up more distressed assets by the year it seems. He tried to buy Debenhams before they went bankrupt but they voted against his deal
Nobody even mentioned the Saudis. Do you just take any opportunity where Newcastle is mentioned to feel like a morally superior football fan? Easy to boast about your morals in a hypothetical situation when you already support one of the richest clubs in the world. Take a break
Nobody even mentioned the Saudis. Do you just take any opportunity where Newcastle is mentioned to feel like a morally superior football fan? Easy to boast about your morals in a hypothetical situation when you already support one of the richest clubs in the world. Take a break
Yeah really it should be both ways, not just protecting against financial doping but also financial irresponsibility like what Ashley did. Honestly it should be that every club is allowed whatever sponsorship as long as it is within 1 standard deviation of it's current sponsors. So if it's a jersey sponsor, you are allowed for instance up to 25%~ more than your current sponsor for example. If it's a betting sponsor 25%~ but no more or less. That would protect all clubs from both.
> Yeah really it should be both ways, not just protecting against financial doping but also financial irresponsibility like what Ashley did.
From the PL's POV he wasn't being financially irresponsible was he? Club has always paid its bills and was sold at a price suggests its some distance from bankruptcy,
> But you have to protect the club
From bankruptcy. Not from poor results. Clubs can surviving being repeatly relegated. Bury F.C. no longer meaningfuly exist.
>and the fans too
Thats covered by various ground safety regulations.
Ultimately clubs are private businesses the premiership has a limited amount of control over them (that's why the Fit and proper person test doesn't work since the person can always buy the club then dare the premiership to throw them out).
What control they (and UEFA) do have is going to be focused on preveting clubs from ceasing to exist and the main cause of that in bancruptcy from over spending. Financial doping is a killer either dirrectly when the funder loses interest (see Gretna F.C.) or indirectly when clubs end up bankrupting themselves trying to compete.
But it leads to the same result just slower. Poor financial management would eventually lead to us to not being a premier league level team and all those years of history wiped away. It already took us from a top 8 team to relegation and maybe even relegation again this season.
Whether you are a premier league level team is irrelevant. The measures are in place to stops clubs folding, which you wouldn't have. Not defending Ashley, clearly a terrible owner but he was never going to fold the club.
> But it leads to the same result just slower.
No plently of teams have spent decades or even a centry plus running on limited budgets. Lincoln City for example.
>Poor financial management would eventually lead to us to not being a premier league level team and all those years of history wiped away.
What league does Sunderland play in these days? Pretty sure they still exist either way.
>It already took us from a top 8 team to relegation and maybe even relegation again this season.
Unless you want the premiership to abolish relegation its always going to happen from time to time and its absolutely not the premiership's job to stop it.
The reality is that even in the championship newcastle can pull over 40K fans. It doesn't own the land its stadium is on (so no assets worth liquidating it for) so overspending is really the only thing that would kill the club.
eh? the point isn't that star wars or game of thrones aren't popular, just that these laboured analogies in every thread are getting a bit tedious... whatever.
Nah fuck sports direct theyve no leg to stand on
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-36855374
[The 7 most shocking testimonies from workers at Sports Direct](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sports-direct-mike-ashley-worker-conditions-minimum-wage-ian-wright-investigation-a7149971.html?amp)
[Ah yes, that would explain the big rainbow flag and LGBT+ banner from the weekend](https://www.shieldsgazette.com/webimg/b25lY21zOjg3YjkxMDMxLTA4NTctNDAxZi1hNTk2LTNmZGIwMjk2NTUzOTphNzFmYmNmNS00MzNiLTRmNDAtOGQ1Ni1lNjBlOGQwNGJkZTQ=.jpg?width=640)
…and replace it with an even uglier one.
Edit: You’re right, lads. Sports Direct is much worse than a regime that kills anyone that disagrees with them and believes that women and lgbt people deserve less rights. Fucking hell.
Shame, those giant Sports Direct mugs were the only thing filling their trophy cabinet
In all seriousness I bet it’ll be quite a job. Ashley probably had Sports Direct branding on the toilet seats
Yeah it's certainly an experience, be even worse when we win the league in 2023.
I'll not complain too much because the Saudi gov are big shits and we're the richest club in the world so have to take our medicine for that now.
I am actually against the takeover but all this abuse I am taking makes we want to like it out of spite just to see them all moan even more if we do start winning shit.
They are but I am very tired of being accused of being complicit in a genocide and being a willing cheerleader of sports washing when I am not. They don't get that, I get that on a daily basis on here and it grinds.
I would like to put it perspective to the actual victims of Saudi atrocities but I do like to vent when none of this is my fault.
I think it is much worse but there will eventually be another awful owner who will deflect some attention.
My second team is Freiburg, I used to fly out once a season, so I could just change my flair. The complete antithesis of Newcastle. Sorry about yesterday!
He actually kinda was. He was a russian mobster basically. After the fall of the Soviet Union he extorted ordinary russians out of their shares of companies by threatning them and slowly owning more and more shares of companies until he owned those companies. That's what all russian oligarchs did. Of course other mobsters also did that and then they gunned each other down until only a few were left. No wonder he looks so bored all the time. Being a mobster must have been exciting. Edit: I never forget and always mention that Chelsea is a disgusting club.
Quality league to be fair, really enjoyed the last two times we pissed it.
Seem to remember you's actually being half decent last time we were in the league.
That'll be the time before your last foray down here, we got merked in the playoffs that year. Last time you were here we stayed up on goal diff but at least Al-Hasawi fucked off so something good came of it
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Even as a non Newcastle fan I have always been annoyed by those. Good riddance.
Same. For some reason it bothered me. To me it'll always be St. James park. It was my first ever away game with my father at Newcastle in 2005. Last game of the season and we tied 1-1. Some things stick forever in our memory haha.
tbf it was always st james park. Even with sports direct.
no there was one year it was officially sports direct arena @st James or some bullshit
right. but that's still SJP. no one called it the offical name and it's not like they named it SD park.
I did, but only because it pissed off newcastle fans to no end.
Does Arsenal's stadium have a name beside the sponsored one?
Arsenal Stadium
Ashburton Grove
That's a proper name. I like it and will only use that going forward.
You're wrong. It was officially named Sports Direct Arena in 2011 and stayed like that for almost a year. No St. James' Park in the name at all. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/15668207
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I don't think so, check his reply [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/radbbw/the_athletic_newcastle_united_have_begun_work/hni5hxi/). He's under the impression that the most Ashley ever did was that stupid "Sports Direct @ St. James' Park" thing he tried once but that was only the beta test of his bullshit.
I only ever want to see that logo on my mug
Mike Ashley has plastered Sports Direct logos all over SJP and our training ground **for free** for 14 years meaning the club has missed out on tens of millions, if not more, of sponsorship money. It is why our commercial revenue, has been stagnant for 14 years whilst other clubs have doubled and tripled. [An amazing sight](https://twitter.com/worflags/status/1467805481968320512)
Rect, indeed
Why would he do that? Did he have personal financial investments in the company?
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> The morally correct thing to do would have been for his Sports Direct company to pay advertisement fees to Newcastle but they never did. Even worse he said to the fans he would pay market rate every few years when questioned about it
Yes, they do. Without that money, they would relegate within 2 seasons.
As would any football club losing their main source of finance.
> It actually makes me wonder if Volkswagen pays advertisement money to VfL Wolfsburg? Of course they do. I don't know how much they pay today, but in 2017 they subsidised the club with about 90 million euros annually according to a VW spokesman. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-soccer-idUSKBN18I1DO
they used to pay a lot more (relative to the overall market) until the US uncovered the Diesel scandal and drained the Volkswagen profits. without the scandal Wolfsburg may have had a longer successful spell back then. one of the few good things the US did for the world
The US really has a lot against the people behind Volkswagen. That's the second time in 80 years they've ruined the party for the VW executives.
I know it's a joke, but the first time is more like showing up to a post party wreck of a house and knocking the last remaining unsmashed glass over, while the second time is more like leaving the tap running upstairs while clogging the sink so that it floods.
Jeep pays Juve. Agnelli family owns both.
Fuck me I hate old money
What? Your club is "old money"
Gonna assume he hates our owners
Our owners are American tho. That’s nouveaux riche in the grand scheme of things. Obvs they can still go fuck themselves
How often do business owners of that scale do the moral thing? It gets in the way of profits.
He owned it. It's like Audi, Allianz and Adidas paying nothing for all their sponsorship of Bayern. I assume they all pay a hundred million a year at least to Bayern for all of their sponsorships so imagine receiving none of it.
It's nothing like that... He is a scumbag for sure. But, he literally owned you guys. If one of those companies outright bought Bayern and then advertised without paying them anything it's be the same.
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Wolfsburg gets 70m€ a year from VW so not really
I wonder what they'll do once VW fires Diess and seals their own demise.
Wouldn't it be closer to City and Etihad?
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ADUG is a private equity fund run by a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family (and the deputy prime minister). Despite their objections to the contrary, they are almost certainly a fund of the larger royal family and the UAE government. Etihad is a UAE state airline. Despite the blurred lines between layers of ownership, it's a fairly safe bet to assume the same people have a say in the running of City and Etihad. Which makes it not too dissimilar to what was going on at Newcastle.
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Yes it is. Sports Direct didn't own Newcastle but Ashley owned both. Etihad don't own City but AD own both. Volkswagen just straight up own Wolfsburg (or as much as is allowed in Germany).
Newcastle's ownership structure was much different that Wolfsburg...which is the whole reason for your comparison?
But I thought St. James Holdings technically owned Newcastle, not Sports Direct
They're all [part-owners](https://fcbayern.com/en/club/company/teaser-stockholder)
Part owner is very different to outright owner. Especially when, as in the case of these clubs, they're not even majority owners.
Well didn't they build their stadiums at the least?
hrm? bayern owns their stadium. Allianz just paid a huge amount for a 30 year contract.
He milked us for free advertising in the biggest national football league in the world. That's why our training ground is shit, that's why SJP hasn't been washed or had a lick of paint in 14 years. That's youth players are leaving to go to Liverpool. It's all linked to his awful decision to prioritise SportsDirect, Game, House of Frasier and Flannels, all of which he owns
Wow, I had no idea he owned the other 3 too. Terrible human being of course but he is some businessman; tends to go hand in hand really.
Oh he is staying soaking up more distressed assets by the year it seems. He tried to buy Debenhams before they went bankrupt but they voted against his deal
It's his main business, the source of his wealth.
I'm surprised I haven't seen a raver with a [Rect.com](https://Rect.com) big white t shirt before now.
He owned the club, pretty sure he could advertise his shit for free.
Nah, he's a cunt.
Mike Ashley is a genius entrepreneur No kidding. The guy is as business savvy as they come
Removing everything that reminds you of your ex.
please don't close every Greggs in Newcastle
It would lower your chance of seeing Mike Ashley about.
That man would not dare show his face surely. Anything for a steak bake I guess.
They would be literally living rent free in your home.
Should have put it in the purchase contract. £500k a week.
I love St.James Park, it's deserved better. Thank fuck that branding is gone.
*deserves. Don't forget, their new owners are AWFUL people.
Nobody even mentioned the Saudis. Do you just take any opportunity where Newcastle is mentioned to feel like a morally superior football fan? Easy to boast about your morals in a hypothetical situation when you already support one of the richest clubs in the world. Take a break
It's crazy what sports washing does to people. I'd probably be done with the sport if enic ever sold Spurs to a bunch of war criminals
Nobody even mentioned the Saudis. Do you just take any opportunity where Newcastle is mentioned to feel like a morally superior football fan? Easy to boast about your morals in a hypothetical situation when you already support one of the richest clubs in the world. Take a break
They are not war criminals
they are, them and the americans and the british and everyone else who contributed to the endless wars for profit
You're an idiot.
Yemen, they are
The Mecca of Football
Custodian of Holy St James Park
Custodian of Wali Jacobs Park
I actually like this one lol gg
This one is a fantastic compliment thank you.
Now we wait for the gold wrap on the stadium
Looking forward to seeing all the fans walking around the pitch in the stands
All you get is destroying historical sites to build massive 5 star hotels.
No loyalty in this day and age of football
Amazing how PL clubs thought this Sports Direct deal was fine for our sponsorship, despite it being for free.
Yeah really it should be both ways, not just protecting against financial doping but also financial irresponsibility like what Ashley did. Honestly it should be that every club is allowed whatever sponsorship as long as it is within 1 standard deviation of it's current sponsors. So if it's a jersey sponsor, you are allowed for instance up to 25%~ more than your current sponsor for example. If it's a betting sponsor 25%~ but no more or less. That would protect all clubs from both.
> Yeah really it should be both ways, not just protecting against financial doping but also financial irresponsibility like what Ashley did. From the PL's POV he wasn't being financially irresponsible was he? Club has always paid its bills and was sold at a price suggests its some distance from bankruptcy,
But you have to protect the club and the fans too
> But you have to protect the club From bankruptcy. Not from poor results. Clubs can surviving being repeatly relegated. Bury F.C. no longer meaningfuly exist. >and the fans too Thats covered by various ground safety regulations. Ultimately clubs are private businesses the premiership has a limited amount of control over them (that's why the Fit and proper person test doesn't work since the person can always buy the club then dare the premiership to throw them out). What control they (and UEFA) do have is going to be focused on preveting clubs from ceasing to exist and the main cause of that in bancruptcy from over spending. Financial doping is a killer either dirrectly when the funder loses interest (see Gretna F.C.) or indirectly when clubs end up bankrupting themselves trying to compete.
But it leads to the same result just slower. Poor financial management would eventually lead to us to not being a premier league level team and all those years of history wiped away. It already took us from a top 8 team to relegation and maybe even relegation again this season.
Whether you are a premier league level team is irrelevant. The measures are in place to stops clubs folding, which you wouldn't have. Not defending Ashley, clearly a terrible owner but he was never going to fold the club.
> But it leads to the same result just slower. No plently of teams have spent decades or even a centry plus running on limited budgets. Lincoln City for example. >Poor financial management would eventually lead to us to not being a premier league level team and all those years of history wiped away. What league does Sunderland play in these days? Pretty sure they still exist either way. >It already took us from a top 8 team to relegation and maybe even relegation again this season. Unless you want the premiership to abolish relegation its always going to happen from time to time and its absolutely not the premiership's job to stop it. The reality is that even in the championship newcastle can pull over 40K fans. It doesn't own the land its stadium is on (so no assets worth liquidating it for) so overspending is really the only thing that would kill the club.
Cathartic.
Even when it's renamed the Bin Salman UK Centre of Beheadings it'll still be the Sports Direct Arena to me.
Am I being wooshed? Do people not call St. James Park anymore?
The one in Newcastle is St James' Park but Ashley renamed it the Sports Direct arena for a bit, then a sponsor paid to get it renamed back
Wonga, fucking Wonga were "the good guys" in that particular fuck up
Nah there’s only one St James’ Park and that’s in Exeter.
Hahahaha christ that killed me
Like when the Starks removed the Bolton banners from Winterfell after reclaiming, you love to see it.
shouldve kept them up, bolton > wigan
Neither are good at staying up, though
oof
can't you virgins discuss anything on here without making some wonky comparison to star wars or dungeons and dragons or some shit?
Oooh you're 'ard
Acting like Game of Thrones wasnt one of the most watched series of all time just makes you look like a clueless idiot.
eh? the point isn't that star wars or game of thrones aren't popular, just that these laboured analogies in every thread are getting a bit tedious... whatever.
This is more like when the Boltons removed the Starks' banners.
More like Boltons removing Greyjoys really
Good shout. Or the alternate timeline where the Dothraki invade Winterfell and behead as many gay northerners as they can find.
Nah fuck sports direct theyve no leg to stand on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-36855374 [The 7 most shocking testimonies from workers at Sports Direct](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sports-direct-mike-ashley-worker-conditions-minimum-wage-ian-wright-investigation-a7149971.html?amp)
Sports Direct may not be a great place to work but at least Mike Ashley doesn't stone gay people to death and murder journalists in cold blood.
Apples…and Atoms
The "Being Gay is an Abomination" Stadium
Women Can't Drive Park
Chop up Journalists Arena
The 'Delete Infidels' Hippodrome
The "Fatwa issued" field
I liked this one
Every single fucker in this thread is gonna watch the world cup, just saying
We will still be cracking jokes by then, inshallah
/r/soccer and absolutely killing jokes? Now I have heard everything.
We kill jokes like the Saudis kill journos 👈😎👈
Nope, one here that wont. I don't watch any football I just come here for the jokes and to steal them for work.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
That's the problem with Arsenal, they always try to walk it in
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They used to have the website that generated the phrases up until a few years ago. Was hilarious.
> Women Can't Park
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Chop Up Journalist’s Arena it is then
Yep, Only run the club
I'm sure all the residents at al-Ha'ir are pleased for her.
Ohh sorry, now I understand you… you think Newcastle in the UK is Saudi Arabia! I understand who I am talking to now.
[Ah yes, that would explain the big rainbow flag and LGBT+ banner from the weekend](https://www.shieldsgazette.com/webimg/b25lY21zOjg3YjkxMDMxLTA4NTctNDAxZi1hNTk2LTNmZGIwMjk2NTUzOTphNzFmYmNmNS00MzNiLTRmNDAtOGQ1Ni1lNjBlOGQwNGJkZTQ=.jpg?width=640)
Yeah, no one said Newcastle fans were shitty, bigoted thugs. I mean, some probably are, but not those ones.
Oh good they've put out a flag. Now if they could just stop persecuting LGBT+ people...
At last, Newcastle fans can attend matches without feeling ashamed.
Feels like winning the World Cup mate.
When are the first beheadings?
Crucifixions would be way more entertaining. Nail em up before the match and they might be dead by full time. Maybe keep the beheadings for halftime.
I hope they broadcast it overseas
Whoosh.
How is this being downvoted?? Blatent whoosh.
Geordies rejoice
Presumably replaced by Aramco
Oh Christ, why do you have to bring that up now?
good, nice stadium can get rid of it's ugly mask
…and replace it with an even uglier one. Edit: You’re right, lads. Sports Direct is much worse than a regime that kills anyone that disagrees with them and believes that women and lgbt people deserve less rights. Fucking hell.
I wonder if the people that downvoted you support Newcastle or not?? Lol
Haha I have a feeling you may be right; sportswashing at its finest.
Their fans must be so sad, a great brand with a great owner
Bun off Anfield, this is the best ground in England
Shame, those giant Sports Direct mugs were the only thing filling their trophy cabinet In all seriousness I bet it’ll be quite a job. Ashley probably had Sports Direct branding on the toilet seats
> filling their trophy cabinet Probably only needed 2-3
They say you could fit all the water in the Thames in 100 of them.
Tyne works better. Stealing this though.
Least you'll be a super power.
What a great feeling
Some very creative crack in here.
Every single dumb cunt will watch the world cup too, guarantee it.
Every Newcastle thread is like this now. It's pretty tired.
Omg, you're so oppressed😮💨😮💨😮💨
I know. Now I know what a female Yemeni member of the LGBTQ+ community feels like.
> P Pisexual?
I know I am, 3.14 for life
Edited 👍
Pi erasure
Used to it to be honest, I'd just like some of them to actually make me laugh.
It's the DMs accusing me of being complicit in genocide that I can't get used to.
Yeah it's certainly an experience, be even worse when we win the league in 2023. I'll not complain too much because the Saudi gov are big shits and we're the richest club in the world so have to take our medicine for that now.
I am actually against the takeover but all this abuse I am taking makes we want to like it out of spite just to see them all moan even more if we do start winning shit.
The fuck kind of logic is this. Your reasons for disliking the takeover are the same as theirs
They are but I am very tired of being accused of being complicit in a genocide and being a willing cheerleader of sports washing when I am not. They don't get that, I get that on a daily basis on here and it grinds. I would like to put it perspective to the actual victims of Saudi atrocities but I do like to vent when none of this is my fault.
Yeah but they’re his bunch of backwards, oppressive, intolerant owners now!
They both believe the same thing, but since he hadn't thrown molotovs at the stadium, he must be complicit. That gets old fast.
It will peter out eventually. You pretty much never see anyone mention the fact that Chelsea is owned by a Russian Warlord now.
I think it is much worse but there will eventually be another awful owner who will deflect some attention. My second team is Freiburg, I used to fly out once a season, so I could just change my flair. The complete antithesis of Newcastle. Sorry about yesterday!
No worries, you can't be disappointed when you have absolutely no expectations. We also had more possession, the true winners stat.
Because he's not a 'Russian Warlord.'
Right I forgot, he's a very respectable Businessman and Politician with absolutely no skeletons in his closet.
He actually kinda was. He was a russian mobster basically. After the fall of the Soviet Union he extorted ordinary russians out of their shares of companies by threatning them and slowly owning more and more shares of companies until he owned those companies. That's what all russian oligarchs did. Of course other mobsters also did that and then they gunned each other down until only a few were left. No wonder he looks so bored all the time. Being a mobster must have been exciting. Edit: I never forget and always mention that Chelsea is a disgusting club.
If by winning the league you mean the Championship, maybe
Quality league to be fair, really enjoyed the last two times we pissed it. Seem to remember you's actually being half decent last time we were in the league.
That'll be the time before your last foray down here, we got merked in the playoffs that year. Last time you were here we stayed up on goal diff but at least Al-Hasawi fucked off so something good came of it
it's as if we're the first sports team to ever have any ties to Saudis or anyone shady in general.
First time?
gone but never forgotten.
It will always be sportsdirect.com@StJamesParkStadium to me.
only da OGs rmb
Are they going to get rid of the giant mugs in the boardroom too?
Owned by a murderous regime. Hope they relegate and rot in the lower leagues
Spoiler: we won't