Comments on: CHELSEA PITCH OWNERS – A MESS?

By: Jez Walters

Jez Walters — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:07:15 +0000

Or what about this?

http://www.countercurrents.org/pritchard210210.htm

Hmmm.

By: Jez Walters

Jez Walters — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:24:55 +0000

Conspiracy theory?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/oilprices/7203172/Britain-faces-oil-crunch-within-five-years-Richard-Branson-warns.html

Hmmmm.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:42:42 +0000

I was one of the original CPO and bought the share in good faith to protect the club after having lived through all the bad times mid 70s to mid 90s that so badly affected the club. When RA goes – unless there are solid plans in place the SB site will always be a target for property developers due to its location. To simply trust that this won’t happen again in the future is a folly of the worst kind.

I would not want to hold the club back and would happily be consulted on any plans with a view to securing my agreement. The reality is though that SB could easily be re-developed on the North, East and South sides by building over the rail lines, agreeing access through the graveyard and resedential area behind the North Stand and knocking down the hotel and sports centre so there should be no need to move to achieve a 52-55,000 capacity ground that has some style.

By: Brett Cox

Brett Cox — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:47:43 +0000

The summary of your argument is that we don’t need to worry because peak oil will render a stadium move moot?

Is this a conspiracy / new world order website?

Let me repeat your argument – you summarise that a stadium move will be unsustainable due to rising transport costs, i.e. 20000 extra people will not be able to afford transport costs due to peak oil.

Therefore one should not worry that the primacy of a single CPO shareholder overrides any remaining 11,999, and each single shareholder wields a unique right of veto?

Are you suggesting that Old Trafford and the Emirates are going to see difficulties filling their grounds due to peak-oil induced transport costs, and that the Emirates has thusly been a folly?

This is just a bizarre construction, really.

It is unreasonable to expect that for 100 quid you can buy veto control over an asset of the value of Chelsea FC.

Due to the value of the CPO contract, it is highly likely to be subverted or attacked on a legal basis should the owner decide it is in the club’s best interests to move. I dare say they have some plans about how they will execute this exactly.

I don’t know the Richard King issue, but this sounds like a real kitchen cabinet of reactionaries, as per usual. I am sure they are a good bunch of working class lads who are certain the man is trying to steal their rights.

Or maybe it’s just a collection of agents acting on behalf of Ken Bates for reason of spiting Abramovich?