Chelsea FC

“Reece’s ambition is to wear the Chelsea armband and captain the side” —Nigel James, Reece James’ father

Football owner + bloody war = undesirable. This is genuine equivalence. An estimated 10,000 children have been killed or maimed in Yemen. Shouldn’t someone in football also care about it just a little? Alan? Are there, like, any more videos?

OFFICIAL

Roman Abramovich has decided to sell the club. He will not ask for Chelsea to repay the £1.5B loan to him and his team set up a charitable foundation where all net proceeds from the sale will be donated. The foundation will be for the benefit of all victims of the war in Ukraine. This includes providing critical funds towards the urgent and immediate needs of victims, as well as supporting the long-term work of recovery.

He’s parted with the following words:

As a club that has always continuously has been on top of their game trying to combat racism and discrimination we are horrified about the news about the owner funding terrorists this, together with their disappointing silence in regards to Palestine, and ignoring the overwhelming calls for the club to stand WITH Palestine (as well) there’s no words that can describe my disappointment at this club. Roman is shamelessly using the club’s platform to spread zionist agenda (you can both denounce anti-semitism and stand with the innocent Palestinians losing their homes and loved ones).

If you stand with Palestine I know as no other how it feels right now seeing the club you love and support do this. What YOU can do as a Chelsea supporter

-You boycott the club, you don’t buy/spend money on the club or watch their games that could benefit the club financially

-One thing worth mentioning is the fact that you do not need to worry that the money you spent on the club was used to fund wars because Roman does not earn money through Chelsea. We are partly self run club making profit off player sale and European success/broadcasting and partly get funded BY the owner. He has never used the club’s money and hopefully it stays like that.

-Use your VOICE. It’s worth trying to directly call for action by either protests, social media calls, writing mails etc. You as a supporter have every right to call out the club that you support so make use of your voice and denounce the club being made a complicit in this.

-REPORT ABUSE. Wherever you see

-Use the BDS Movement Guideline