War News Part 5 - Government Seizes Chelsea Fc!

[ichkeria]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/60688168

[Peter Pedant]

jesus is this true?
hi Ich - mornin'

the maternity H looks like the square at barts - apart from the fact that the windows and casements have ALL been blown out

[jim360]

Part 1: https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1786667.html
Part 2: https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1787038.html
Part 3: https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1787316.html
Part 4: https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1787975.html

No doubt editors will amend the title question to include these links later. Also, apologies for the removed answer to open the thread.

[rowanwitch]

I had hoped his transferring the club to his foundation would have prevented this. He had been distancing himself from Vlad the bad for some time, and his actions during the height of the pandemic demonstrated some degree of commitment to the uk. I understand there had to be a response after he was picked out by the Ukranian reporter recently.

[William51]

I think the government are being heavy handed, they are punishing Chelsea FC and the fans, where they should only go for Abramovich.

[jim360]

One could presumably say the same of all sanctions. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to only adversely affect the direct targets of sanctions. Often, almost by virtue of their being rich, they are protected anyway (assuming they were sensible enough to spread out their wealth, so that a single sanction only deprives them of a portion of it). The innocent and the poor always suffer the most in wars, military or economic.

[ichkeria]

Chelsea is his property and therefore the action is justified

He was trying to wriggle out of it.

You reap what you sow

[aelmpvw]

i look forward to seeing training sessions with bojo . . .

[Peter Pedant]

Hi Jim an errant missile seems to have landed in Croatia !

presumably Chelsea is deemed to be a russian asset - the law allows sham transfers to be nulliefied/discounted

[jim360]

// Hi Jim an errant missile seems to have landed in Croatia !//

What?

[Ellipsis]

Chelsea is an asset of Abamovich's, just like the superyacht that was seized by the Italians a few days ago was an asset of the oligarch that owned it.

[royfromaus]

Hi Jim an errant missile seems to have landed in Croatia !
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What year was this?

[Peter Pedant]

answer no 1 got zapped !

[jim360]

I had wondered if it was meant to be a joke. If so, it was not a particularly funny one.

[THECORBYLOON]

Do you have a source for the Croatia missile claim?

[Peter Pedant]

eek ! sucks cheecks in and looks er guilty
No corbyloon - I was concluding from the way that it was there one second and zap ! hot air the next

[Zacs-Master]

The Chelsea FC Twitter account is most amusing at the moment.

[THECORBYLOON]

PP, I have no idea what the thought process was behind that Croatia remark but it was inappropriate and I suggest you refrain from making similar remarks again.

[ichkeria]

US intelligence believes the Russians have deployed mobile cremation units among their forces to reduce the body bag visibility

[dannyk13]

ich//ussians have deployed mobile cremation units among their forces to reduce the body bag visibility//
Let's hope they have reserved one forPutin.