All’s not lost - a certain blue team in Glasgow eventually paid the price

Yep, if it were not for financial doping Spurs would probably have been CL regulars, PL champions and FA Cup winners over the last few seasons. And it would all have been done in the right and proper way, within their means, self generated and with a first class business model.

There is very little kudos in anything £ity and Ch£lsea have achieved, but for a billion pound of doping those two would almost certainly be bottom half PL clubs at best.

This theory makes the England team even worse.

OP

Great article. Five stars from me.

Spurs PL Champions 2017

comment by Billy The Yidd (U3924)
posted 56 seconds ago
Yep, if it were not for financial doping Spurs would probably have been CL regulars, PL champions and FA Cup winners over the last few seasons. And it would all have been done in the right and proper way, within their means, self generated and with a first class business model.

There is very little kudos in anything £ity and Ch£lsea have achieved, but for a billion pound of doping those two would almost certainly be bottom half PL clubs at best.
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Exactly. Also those of City's and Chelsea's fans that revel in it compromise themselves too - celebrating doping effectively.

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comment by justanotherTopperSpur (U1409)
posted 4 minutes ago
Let's face it..no-one really gives a schitt if City win things.
It's like a lottery winner winning a banger race in a Ferrari...yey,well done(!)
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Let's face it throughout history the clubs with the most money tend to win the league

The money just comes from another source these days

comment by Billy The Yidd (U3924)
posted 20 minutes ago
Yep, if it were not for financial doping Spurs would probably have been CL regulars, PL champions and FA Cup winners over the last few seasons. And it would all have been done in the right and proper way, within their means, self generated and with a first class business model.

There is very little kudos in anything £ity and Ch£lsea have achieved, but for a billion pound of doping those two would almost certainly be bottom half PL clubs at best.
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Chelsea were already miles ahead of Spurs before the money was ploughed in. They won trophies and were in the CL.

I wonder where in the table City would be if the hadn't been bought out. Might have even been relegated by now

comment by Kim Jong Wenger (U8691)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Billy The Yidd (U3924)
posted 20 minutes ago
Yep, if it were not for financial doping Spurs would probably have been CL regulars, PL champions and FA Cup winners over the last few seasons. And it would all have been done in the right and proper way, within their means, self generated and with a first class business model.

There is very little kudos in anything £ity and Ch£lsea have achieved, but for a billion pound of doping those two would almost certainly be bottom half PL clubs at best.
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Chelsea were already miles ahead of Spurs before the money was ploughed in. They won trophies and were in the CL.
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Yes and the first thing Roman did was write a cheque for 80mil to keep them out of administration. Without him Chelsea would have been another Leeds or Portsmouth. Anything they did in years leading up to his takeover was done with money they didn't have.

comment by Kim Jong Wenger (U8691)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by Billy The Yidd (U3924)
posted 20 minutes ago
Yep, if it were not for financial doping Spurs would probably have been CL regulars, PL champions and FA Cup winners over the last few seasons. And it would all have been done in the right and proper way, within their means, self generated and with a first class business model.

There is very little kudos in anything £ity and Ch£lsea have achieved, but for a billion pound of doping those two would almost certainly be bottom half PL clubs at best.
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Chelsea were already miles ahead of Spurs before the money was ploughed in. They won trophies and were in the CL.
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To get ahead of Spurs before the lottery win, they had to borrow lots of money, they had absolutely no way of being able to pay back, and were about to go bust before the Russian stepped in to save them from basically going under. Prior to him, it was like them robbing a bank to get a bit of an advantage.

comment by Kim Jong Wenger (U8691)
posted 45 minutes ago
comment by Billy The Yidd (U3924)
posted 20 minutes ago
Yep, if it were not for financial doping Spurs would probably have been CL regulars, PL champions and FA Cup winners over the last few seasons. And it would all have been done in the right and proper way, within their means, self generated and with a first class business model.

There is very little kudos in anything £ity and Ch£lsea have achieved, but for a billion pound of doping those two would almost certainly be bottom half PL clubs at best.
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Chelsea were already miles ahead of Spurs before the money was ploughed in. They won trophies and were in the CL.
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And also hundreds of millions in debt

Why don't the Labour, Liberal or Green Party put in their manifesto that they will pass a law to force all football clubs to make their fans majority share holders?

I think that is the diffetence between winning and glory.

But it's deeper than just owners buying trophies for their clubs as there are mechanisms within football, like the UEFA Club Coefficient system, that gives clubs like Arsenal, Utd and Liverpool a virtual bye in the group stages of the CL. It could be argued that they earn that privilege, or that it makes the knock out rounds more glamorous, but seeing as there is no footballing reason for teams tobe seeded it can only be there to help in keeping the the wealthier clubs coffers full.

comment by Nicottino (U14419)
posted 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
Why don't the Labour, Liberal or Green Party put in their manifesto that they will pass a law to force all football clubs to make their fans majority share holders?
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Because you can't seize a private business like that and hand it to the customers. Get a grip.

Why not simply remove every other team in the league, apart from Spurs, so then they may actually win a trophy by default each year I'd like the op to prove that City and Chelsea have been funded by "dirty" money.

comment by About time I had one of these (U4234)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Why not simply remove every other team in the league, apart from Spurs, so then they may actually win a trophy by default each yearI'd like the op to prove that City and Chelsea have been funded by "dirty" money.
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They'd still come second.

comment by If anyone can, Emre Can (U3979)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by About time I had one of these (U4234)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Why not simply remove every other team in the league, apart from Spurs, so then they may actually win a trophy by default each yearI'd like the op to prove that City and Chelsea have been funded by "dirty" money.
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They'd still come second.
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Emre

comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by If anyone can, Emre Can (U3979)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by About time I had one of these (U4234)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Why not simply remove every other team in the league, apart from Spurs, so then they may actually win a trophy by default each yearI'd like the op to prove that City and Chelsea have been funded by "dirty" money.
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Unsurprising that a fan of abramovic-funded chelsea has their head in the sand on this. Do some reading.

Mate compared to me you are a nonentity fan. I have forgotten more about Chelsea and Spurs than you ever knew your the one that needs to do some reading. You can start with my profile.

This is pretty embarrassing tbh

Hengy I'm assuming that you and me are all good? I can't recall us ever having a cross word.

comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 18 seconds ago
Hengy I'm assuming that you and me are all good? I can't recall us ever having a cross word.
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Yes mate, I was referring to the article

Thanks mate. Are you keeping OK? I would normally apologise for going off topic but I won't bother on this one.

comment by Eatmygoal (U15786)
posted 51 minutes ago
comment by Chelsea_since_summer_1969 ✯ (U1561)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by If anyone can, Emre Can (U3979)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by About time I had one of these (U4234)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Why not simply remove every other team in the league, apart from Spurs, so then they may actually win a trophy by default each yearI'd like the op to prove that City and Chelsea have been funded by "dirty" money.
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Unsurprising that a fan of abramovic-funded chelsea has their head in the sand on this. Do some reading.
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Show me some evidence. All I have ever seen is speculative nonsense and innuendo.