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[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Champions League Finals:

Penalty No Penalty

[Football Talk @FootballTalkHQ]

How is that not a penalty? 🤔

[Red Marrow @RedMarrow_]

The issue isn't about impeding the goalie. The issue is every team in the league have had their goalies impeded by Arsenal players this season, and nothing was done about it. They allowed those grapples, pushes, shoves and thereby set a precedent on how corners and set pieces were to be officiated this season. Chalking a goal off for impeding the GK, after setting a precedent to the contrary, on the most important game of the run-in and thereby deciding the title and relegation is why people are angry.

[Kalshi EPL @KalshiEPL]

🚨🎙️| Saudi commentator on the disallowed West Ham United goal vs Arsenal:

“Honestly speaking, Arsenal have been getting favoured all season. We’ve seen the exact same situations against Chelsea and Manchester United and the referees said play on. But once it’s Arsenal, suddenly it’s a foul. At this point the bias is becoming impossible to hide. Every week the rules seem to change depending on who Arsenal are playing.”

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Peter Schmeichel: "Arsenal have been blocking the opponent's goalkeeper all season long, they would NEVER be on top of the league if we disallow these goals!"

— ViaPlay

[Pys @CFCPys]

Darren England was the referee who gave zero penalties to Chelsea in the 2-1 defeat to Arsenal. There was multiple corner incidents and fouls on Hato and Joao Pedro.

Darren England was the VAR today who decided that it should be a foul on Raya.

Darren England will referee Chelsea’s FA Cup final next weekend.

Inconsistency. Give them all or give none.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Many Premier League fans are FURIOUS over what they see as the league’s refereeing hypocrisy.

They argue that West Ham’s disallowed goal, despite being a foul, is the same type of set-piece block Arsenal have used all season without being punished.

Fans are now demanding CONSISTENCY from referees, claiming Arsenal have benefited from similar decisions throughout the campaign... But now that it has gone against them, it a foul.

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Here's the perfect example. This ultimately won Arsenal three huge points on the opening weekend of the Premier League. From start to finish of the season, there is a confusing lack of consistency in how the game is officiated. Rules aren't this flexible.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️| Joe Hart on West Ham’s disallowed equalizer vs Arsenal, accuses VAR of saving Arsenal’s title hopes:

🗣️“Listen, I don’t care what anyone says, that goal should’ve stood. VAR has absolutely ruined moments like that. West Ham fought for that equalizer and somehow they’ve found a way to disallow it for the softest little touch you’ll ever see. If that’s Arsenal scoring at the Emirates, nobody even checks it for more than five seconds.

And this is what frustrates fans, Arsenal have lived off those scrappy, aggressive goals all season. Blocking keepers, crowding the six-yard box, little nudges here and there… suddenly when it happens against them, it’s ‘clear and obvious.’ Give me a break.

I was a goalkeeper, I know when a keeper’s genuinely impeded and when he’s looking for help. There’s no way you can tell me that was enough contact for the goal to be overturned. The game’s gone soft. West Ham have been robbed, simple as that.

You wonder why fans think certain clubs get favourable decisions because moments like this keep happening. Arsenal are in a title race and somehow every 50/50 call seems to land their way. That equalizer changes the whole atmosphere of the game and VAR bottled it. Absolutely bottled it.”

[LDN @LDNFootbalI]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

[Bobby F. 🍁 @bobbyfairview]

Dear @ebehdad

RE: The Conflict of Perverse Incentives

I want to be fair to you. You had less than a month to structure a complex billion pound transaction, so some mistakes were always going to happen. But the mistake I’m describing isn’t an execution error. It’s a conceptual flaw baked into the deal from day one, and it has permanently poisoned your strategic position.

You built a structure with three stakeholder groups, and you only have a fiduciary duty to one of them. That was always going to end badly. Let me explain why.

A man came to you and said he had £300m and wanted to buy a business for £4.2bn. Two of his mates would chip in £300m each. You lent him the rest. To their credit, they’ve been matching cash calls ever since. But here is what you actually agreed to: you needed Boehly’s money, which meant Boehly got something in return. What he got was influence over the sporting operation. And the first thing he did with it was sack Thomas Tuchel so he could have his dressing room access.

That decision, made to protect your financial relationship with a co-investor who couldn’t actually afford the asset, is what set everything else in motion.

Roman left you a blueprint. He won trophies, built a global brand, and maintained a fair value that always exceeded his cost basis. Central to that was Cobham. Fans across England sing “he’s one of our own” for a reason. That bond between a club and its homegrown players is not sentiment. It is enterprise value. You dismantled it. You sold the graduates and killed the pipeline, not because it made sporting sense, but because your financial model required short term asset monetisation over long term brand construction.

You have now spent more on transfers than any ownership group in the history of football. Chelsea are currently 9th. Below Brentford. Below Brighton. That is the sporting output of your model, and those fans who sang “he’s one of our own” have noticed.

Here is where your conceptual flaw becomes permanent. Boehly has £100m of interest accrued and payable to Ares. You have at least £600m sitting in the Cayman Islands, accruing and payable to COP III. Across the group the interest bill is approaching £400m this year. That means you have no choice but to run this club for one purpose: to make debt service payments. Managing a football club to pay interest has never worked in the history of this game unless you’re Manchester United. Your problem is that you don’t have their revenues. So you are flipping players to fund cash flow.

There will be no properly experienced signings. No manager with real authority. No trophies. You’re caught in a sell-to-buy death spiral and fans have worked out exactly what is happening.

If you’ve made it this far in my letter, this is the part I’d encourage you to sit up and focus on. You need the fans more than they need you. Every day more of them are learning what this structure actually means for the club they love, and they are making a rational decision: do not buy the brand of an owner who is just here to pay interest.

Your perverse incentive is to balance the books, manage the asset, and extract the best possible valuation before the debt matures. Their perverse incentive is to make sure you never get there, because the only exit that actually serves their interests is Ares foreclosing and forcing a sale to someone who can run this club properly.

Think about what that means. The fans who generate the revenue you need to service your debt are now rationally incentivised to undermine that revenue.

You created a structure where your key stakeholder group is rooting for your creditor to take the club from you. That is not a communication problem or a PR problem. It is a structural conflict with no resolution inside your current ownership model.

I’m not sure what the long term prognosis is for a business in that position. But I think you already know.

Yours truly,

bf

[NotAProjectCFC @NotAProjectCFC]

The first couple of images are coming in!

[Bridgways. @Bridgways]

Chelsea managers since BlueCo takeover:

Thomas Tuchel
Graham Potter
Bruno Saltor (Interim)
Frank Lampard
Mauricio Pochettino
Enzo Maresca
Callum McFarlane
Liam Rosenior
Callum McFarlane (Interim)

Crazy. 😱

[CarefreeLewisG🇪🇹📸 #YOURWORLDCHAMPIONS @CarefreeLewisG]

You had a chance to have this project on the right track, and instead of backing Enzo Maresca, you gave yourselves pay rises and threw him under the bus

283 days after being World Champions and this project is a joke. Get out of Chelsea #Bluecoout

[Conn @ConnCFC]

Why are Chelsea fans so harsh on Liam? Because we had THOMAS TUCHEL and this ownership deemed him not good enough. The disrespect from this ownership to him will always make my head hot.

[Bridgways. @Bridgways]

Photo of the day.

[Chelsea Supporters’ Trust⭐️⭐️ @ChelseaSTrust]

Chelsea supporters have shown patience through years of change.

That patience has not been matched by the clarity or accountability supporters have a right to expect.

This is about trust - and right now, that trust has not been earned.

Our open letter to the ownership, board and senior leadership of #ChelseaFC ⬇️

[Conn @ConnCFC]

Wage cap for players but no wage cap for themselves. Makes you think doesn’t it. Hate this ownership

[B/R Football @brfootball]

The BlueCo project is not going to plan 😬