Arsenal legend Ian Wright has come out to blast the hypocrisy of Chelsea celebrating their qualification for the Champions League on the final day of the season. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, if Arsenal had celebrated like that, the celebration police would have come out, but he was shocked to see nobody criticizing Chelsea.
He added that with the money Chelsea has spent in recent years, UCL qualification should be the bare minimum.
His words, “But the thing is that if Arsenal celebrate anything like that, the celebration police come out. I watched it and I thought, ‘I can’t see no noise. Where’s the noise?’
Chelsea are running up like they’ve won the Champions League and they’ve got fourth. And I’m thinking if Arsenal do that, then the people go crazy because we’re held to a different standard. And I’m quite pleased about that. But when you look at Chelsea, they had to do that.
With the money they’ve spent, PSR and everything that entails with Chelsea, they had to be in there.”
WOW.
Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
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