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Chelsea is for sale…

Well…okay folks, this one is about soccer so you may want to skip it unless you’ve found new interest in the English football game by watching Ted Lasso…so, it looks like Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch is going to sell the Chelsea football club and to hear him say it, it is all about his love for the club and English football…I guess the trial balloons about putting the club in trust crashed as the probability of sanctions against him grow by the day and that would mean that he would lose the club and any other assets he has in England….and that includes a couple of huge estates and the normal huge yacht that all of the oligarchs have….now, I will say that he has said the proceeds from the club will be donated to the victims of the Ukraine invasion but who is going to trust him when he has not come out against Putin since most of his cash is from being in the inner circle of Russian business and you don’t get to be a Russian billionaire without Putin approving it and and having a continuing relationship with him….so, let’s take all of this supposed concern for the Ukrainians with a supertanker sized grain of salt…I think he is just trying to avoid the sanctions that are coming and is scrambling to keep some cash when they hit….geez….

The FA cup…

Well….as you know, I’m a big soccer fan and I have written about it a few times here when something happens that I need to talk about. This weekend in the FA cup (the English Football Association), one of the many tournaments that the BPL and other European teams play in, there were happenings that made me grin like an idiot…not that I don’t look like that all the time. I wonder if it is wrong to root against teams that oppose your favorite? If it is, than I was really, really wrong this weekend…and really, really happy. that is because both Chelsea and Manchester City got beaten by teams from the lower leagues that are part of the contest….I guess I should explain how the leagues work there…they have tiers of leagues just like our A, AA, AAA, and the major leagues in baseball, but in this tournament they play each other…so you can have the analog of the the Tigers playing the Whitecaps in a win to move ahead tournament. But, that’s not what I wanted to talk about…just wanted to be happy that Man U’s nemesis all lost this weekend and they are still in it….yeah, I know, doesn’t mean much to you but it does to me….