Comment: Chelsea A loser in front of the League Cup

A bright blue, cloudless sky over London wakes spring feelings. People enjoy life outside, even if it can soon be sensitive in the shade. So a lead curtain about the tense expectation of the final around the League Cup with FC Chelsea and the FC Liverpool in the evening. Where the Russian attack on Ukraine was still anticipating, the club moves from the southwest of the British capital at the center of the talks.

• Fallen catches from the time
• Abramovich's chess train

Fallen catches from the time

The Ironian Liverpooler Fangesang "We're on the March With Jurgen's Army" (Klopp) as a reminiscence on the hits of Cupendames in Wembley in the 1970s and 1980s with "Bob's" and Kenny "S" (Paisley and Dalglish) "Red Army "Does not hit the sound anymore.

Also from the time you like to sound in the media useful puns like the "Roman's Empire" at FC Chelsea. Roman Abramovich, who put several billion pounds into the "blues" in 20 years and led them into the world's top, must fear serious sanctions in the United Kingdom. Like other oligarchs that enjoy a luxury life in London and benefit from a policy as with Stalin. Which should now go to the districts spoiled by the ruble.

Abramovich's chess train

To manage the step by Abramovich, the club and wealth from a foundation of the Club Organization, must first be considered as a train of chess, not as a sales offer.

Reservingly, the official opinion of the Chelsea Football Club acts on the current political situation in Europe and the world. Few drought lines say more than a thousand words about how carved Chelsea with Russia and donors like Gazprom. And indicate how much fear of reprisals prevails.

The opinion is noticeable neutral: "The situation in Ukraine is Horific and Devastating. Chelsea FC's Thoughts are with Everyone in Ukraine. Everyone at the Club is praying for peace." The situation in Ukraine is terrible and devastating. The CFC is with thought at all in Ukraine. Everyone in the club pray for peace.

That Putin does this war that the Russians in Ukraine invades, is not explicit. Before the first large, world-renowned finale in Wembley since the EM final 2021, FC Chelsea is a loser.

The Final of the League Cup, which appears many stakeholders and observers like a relic from old-fashioned football times, gives 2022 a further impetus that the professional sport, especially football, especially the Premier League, the origin and attitude of its modern financiers checked.