• Petit_Hughie@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Do people just randomly forget that some clubs used to be owned by banks and that’s how they are where they are today?

    I’m not going to be an hypocrite and say Chelsea doesn’t have a role to play in the current state of football but if it wasn’t Chelsea it was going to be another club.

    Current state of football was inevitable. It was going to happen regardless.

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      1 year ago

      Bayer Leverkusen were founded by Bayer, the pharmaceutical company that produced chemical weapons for the Nazis during WWII. Bayern Munich used the swastika as their badge. PSG and Manchester City are oil clubs that actively cheat their books to be able to spend more. I don’t get what we’re doing here trying to paint Chelsea’s spending as some new wave ruining football.

      These people who say “football is gone” frankly do not know what they’re talking about. Inflation (both within and outside the sport) has changed the landscape but there has always been stupid money and bad people within the sport.

      The complainers are just nostalgic for the times before they knew and understood how bad it is. Picking any one club to vilify is foolish. It’s an arms race.

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          1 year ago

          So you think the UK should have had rules that prevented anyone from owning a club if they had any connections to someone who “wasn’t a good person”?

          It’s not even rational to discriminate against someone that was in the KGB, because that just means they were public servants working to protect their country.

        • Weary-Good-1607@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          No, he’s using Nazi Germany as an example of how football has been corrupted by less than benevolent interests for a very long time.

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            1 year ago

            I mean yeah I get it, but that’s leaving out a relevant historical context as to why those things happened.

            I agree that Chelsea should not be seen as “where things gone wrong”, but pointing out to Nazi Germany to say things have always been wrong just seems whataboutism with a really low bar