Long ago, the administrators of the English soccer clubs opened their boardrooms to dirty money and moral disaster. Now “soccer is joined with everything else,” samknightwrites: “the shock and the bloodshed and the refugees.”
, in 2003, he said that he didn’t really want to get into how he had acquired his fortune: “It’s crying over spilled milk.” But he was keen on England. “It’s pleasant to be here, you feel comfortable and you don’t feel people are watching you,” he said. “I’m sure people will focus on me for three or four days but it will pass. They’ll forget who I am, and I like that.”
Since the invasion, Britain has entered a grief-and-bargaining process with its intimate, two-decade history of servicing Russian oligarchs. Chelsea fans have been undergoing their own, partisan version of the experience: a mixture of defiance and shame; a sense of dislocation from something they were proud of until very recently. Chelsea Football Club was founded on March 10, 1905. British war veterans have been housed in apartments next to the ground since the First World War.
The woman on my left was called Pauline. She grew up in Battersea, just over the River Thames, and had been coming to matches since the sixties. She came on her own; her husband was a Manchester United fan. Pauline said that soccer had always been a way to get off the treadmill of her life. “You want your club to do well,” she said. But she had been struggling to accommodate the horror of the war with Abramovich’s patronage of her team.
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