The City of London’s shock blitzkrieg against Chelsea FC, who are currently the reigning European and world champions, will totally transform English football into a shadow of its former self.
The City of London’s shock blitzkrieg against Chelsea FC, who are currently the reigning European and world champions, will totally transform English football into a shadow of its former self. Red-carding Chelsea’s owner, Israeli citizen Roman Abramovich, because of his alleged Russian links, has destroyed the Football Association’s current business model. If anti-Semites can confiscate an Israeli citizen’s assets because Russian peace-keeping forces have entered Ukraine, what of clubs like Newcastle Utd and Manchester City, that are owned by Middle Eastern despots? What of Liverpool FC and Manchester Utd that are owned by American clubs? Should they too be sanctioned over America’s endless litany of war crimes, its illegal invasions of Syria and Iraq in particular?
What of the gargantuan salaries that are paid to English-based players, a process which Abramovich initiated but which Chelsea FC can no longer partake in? What of the mini-army of youth players Chelsea have out on loan? Are they also to be sold at fire-sale prices? Must football’s whole house of cards come tumbling down? Is that what NATO wants or does NATO care at all?
Chelsea’s viability could not be more precarious. The British regime have so severely curtailed its finances that the club can barely stay afloat and forward planning, buying or selling players, is a near impossibility until a new, presumably non-Jewish, owner is found. To the City’s establishment, it seems that Jews and Egyptian Muslims are still not quite the ticket.
Even though Abramovich first said he would write off the billions of pounds Chelsea owe him, as he now seems to have changed his mind ahead of the May deadline for selling the club, there are fresh doubts as to whether Jim Ratcliffe, Todd Boehly or some other acceptable oligarch will save the club in time.
In paying for Chelsea out of his own money or, if you prefer, from the vast riches he looted from Russia, Abramovich’s approach is the polar opposite of Manchester United’s owners, who looted the club to pay themselves billions. Why then is the Glazers’ approach kosher, whilst Abramovich’s is not?
The answer lies in the City of London, that quirky entity which has been looting the world’s resources since post-Roman times, much as how the Glazer clan looted Manchester Utd. The brigands, who control London’s Square Mile, care no more about England’s beautiful game than do the Russian cats that are now under sanction. Their game has always been rape, pillage and especially plunder.
Currently, their latest proxies are in the fight of their lives against Russia in Ukraine. At stake is the future of Western Europe, Germany in particular, whose choice is between constructive trade with Russia and engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative or permanent dominance and exploitation by Wall Street, the City and their fellow-buccaneers.
The City hopes to again bankrupt Russia and install another NATO puppet to allow them renew their rape of Russia’s resources. Should they re-colonise Russia, the next step would be another opiate-driven war to sedate and subjugate China. As the Russians and Chinese ain’t buying, war, on a scale the world has never seen, is in the offing.
But Chelsea’s headhunters can relax as their services are not needed, except to torch the odd Orthodox church or two. The City have a new, tooled-up army: legions of human drones to manipulate market prices, geniuses like Prince Harry to fly their drones and Ukrainian simpletons to fill their body bags.
If the City’s Ukrainian war goes as planned Germany, barred from Russia, will be an American vassal state for decades to come. Wall Street and the City will control NATO’s financial and commodities’ markets and Germany will be bereft of economic lebensraum as the City will, by dictating government bond and LIBOR rates, also weaponize inflation, the economic scourge of all great wars and Germany’s worst nightmare. Germany, her Russian and Chinese markets in tatters, will have to march to the City’s drum, accumulating more depreciating American paper, before the Americans once more do a Continental on them.
Unless that is, Germany finds its own Charles De Gaulle, the charismatic French leader, who called the Americans’ bluff by cashing out his Fort Knox chips and causing mayhem in the markets. Germany and Switzerland must eventually turn east as it only there that profits, along the traditional German banking lines, can be found. To the East lies markets, oil, gas and other raw materials. To the West likes Chelsea Football Club, diminishing supplies of Ukrainian wheat and endless, diversionary circuses of no intrinsic worth.
Germany is now in the last-chance saloon. She can liaise with China, Russia and the future or she can lie down on her back and think of Wall Street and the City as they rape her of her remaining resources.
Spare no tears for Chelsea’s headhunters. Sad though their demise will be, they can delude themselves, as they always do, that their club died, like Nelson, for England, home and beauty and not, as it really did, for the unbridled greed of the City’s Eton-educated brats.
Though future historians will find today’s battle over Stamford Bridge as epoch-making as Trafalgar, they will look further back, to the original 1066 Stamford Bridge battle where the English forces vanquished the Vikings in the North, only to find their exhausted forces being routed in the South shortly afterwards at The Battle of Hastings.
And so it will be with Ukraine, where the City’s media outfits will win the ultimately irrelevant propaganda war but, as with the great Tolstoy’s War and Peace, lose the real war to the cudgels of the troops of Tsar Alexander and Prince Kutuzov, which fell mercilessly on the heads of Napoleon’s Grande Armée until they were not even a shadow of their former selves. Indeed, when Zhukov told Stalin that his forces had conquered Berlin, Stalin testily replied that Tsar Alexander had reached Paris. The hope this time has to be that the Russian wave goes even further and prises not just Stamford Bridge but all of London and beyond from the City’s vultures.
