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Chelsea ground move.

Bournemouth Addick
Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,287
edited October 2011 in Other Football and Sports

Can anyone explain in very simple terms for a very simple man what the hell is going on here please? I must have known it at the time but I had clearly forgoten but apparently ownership of the pitch and the stands does not lie with the club hence they are trying to buy the shares back from the supporters 'club' thingy in order to potentially move to another location but the club are not saying where to or when. Is that right?

Is Ken Bates still involved somehow then? I would imagine if he is he'll be more than helpful. Not.

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,289
    day in the bad old days Stamford Bridge was under threat of re-development by I think the Mears Family who owned the club before bates.

    To prevent the ground being developed the pitch was divided up in to 100s of pieces (not literally) and sold to fans.

    The idea was that no one person owned the land so it would be almost impossible to buy them all and then build.

    Now Chelsea want to move to Battersea but to fund that need to sell Stamford Bridge, presumably for more expensive houses and hotels.


  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,743
    I see that the club are only offering what the pitch owners paid for it.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,289
    I see that the club are only offering what the pitch owners paid for it.
    yes, tight sods.

    There argument is "your fans, you didn't buy to make a profit" which may well be true but is a bit rich coming from a Club that is quite happy to spend fortunes on players and charge the earth for tickets
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,788
    A peice of the pitch is worth sod all.....................................

    "Walks off gingerly to collect coat"
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    A peice of the pitch is worth sod all.....................................

    "Walks off gingerly to collect coat"
    I like your post but feel a mown coming on.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,788
    Ssshh......don't grass on me or I'll get turfed out.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited October 2011
    hope they tell them where to stick it
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/04/chelsea-fans-freehold-stamford-bridge?newsfeed=true
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,226
    they're a lawn unto themselves
  • F-Blocker
    F-Blocker Posts: 3,409
    My understanding is that a group of supports bought the pitch and 1 or 2 of the stands when the club almost went bust in the 90s.
  • cliveg
    cliveg Posts: 188

    Chelsea fans are going mad at the proposals to knock down Stamford bridge and relocate to a bigger stadium, one fan was quoted as saying......

    "You can't just bulldoze seven years of history"


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  • F-Blocker
    F-Blocker Posts: 3,409
    My understanding is that a group of supports bought the pitch and 1 or 2 of the stands when the club almost went bust in the 90s.
  • cliveg
    cliveg Posts: 188

    Chelsea fans are going mad at the proposals to knock down Stamford bridge and relocate to a bigger stadium, one fan was quoted as saying......

    "You can't just bulldoze seven years of history"

  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,788
    All sounds a bit seedy to me
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    they're a lawn unto themselves
    excellent.
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    All sounds a bit seedy to me
    I knew you would pitch in again...
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,122
    They want the fans to sell it back for the same prices they paid for it 20 years ago. Good luck with that one!
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,204
    All sounds a bit seedy to me
    I knew you would pitch in again...
    Do we have to keep raking over this?
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,788
    All sounds a bit seedy to me
    I knew you would pitch in again...
    Why don't you fork off?
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Anyway I've been keeping all the newspaper articles on this. Perhaps you'd like to see my cuttings?
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    edited October 2011


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  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    edited October 2011
    This moss stop now.
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,204
    Anyway I've been keeping all the newspaper articles on this. Perhaps you'd like to see my cuttings?
    this is getting too much.  someone needs to weed some of these comments out
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,788
    One of the shareholders said "as far as I'm concerned, if they want to buy my shares I reckon i mowed alot of green".
  • olster
    olster Posts: 1,402
    Does anyone know how much each bit is worth?


  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,788
    Does anyone know how much each bit is worth?


    Apparently, each share was bought for £100
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    It must have grown a bit over the years.
  • Spankie
    Spankie Posts: 1,537

    The grass is always greener...

  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,788
    Wonder if they bought it from a turf accountant?
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,226
    more than likely a hedge fund
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    edited October 2011
    They were called The Chelsea Pitch Owners at the time and they did get the club out of a real mess. I knew one of them who lent me his season ticket for a home game agaist us  Petterson was in goal we lost 2 v 1.

    Sadly my mate died after along battle with prostrat cancer , but he never forgot the real dark days when the "mighty Chelsea" only got 7,000 for a home game and when the club went cap in had to the fans----------------------------RIP Jimmy


    Still they are getting brought out unlike our own shareholders who put the money up front and got turned over  for nothing.

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