Last week, when Abu decided to sell Chelsea and end his 19-year Blues career, I wrote an article titled "Abu, the saddest farewell – who is a hypocrite and who is a true gentleman?" It strives to restore the journey of a wealthy Russian businessman who walked hard between so-called civilization and barbarism.
I thought that by that moment, the story would basically end. No matter who takes over Abu's scepter, no matter how many regrets and sadness there are in this handover, or the opening of a new chapter, only history can slowly reveal the answer. But I didn't think that in the past week alone, Abu's story has reversed again.
Only, this time it became more absurd.
The British government announced yesterday a total freeze on the assets of seven of Russia's most influential oligarchs in the UK, including Chelsea boss Abramovich. At the same time, Chelsea's sale has been suspended.
Later, in another statement later, it was written that the British government was open to the Chelsea sale, but that no proceeds from the sale could go to the individuals sanctioned.
How to understand this? "You can sell, but every penny you get from selling will not go to Abu. As for who will it belong to? Don't tell you. ”
The definition of "sanctioned individual" is addressed to Abu and to everyone who pays attention to it, but it reflects the arrogance of the British government: arrogance and narrowness.
Well, finally there is no longer any concealment, but a naked open grab. The British government itself ripped off its own underpants to show the world how "civilization" was defined in their values.
It's not just Chelsea's sales that have been frozen, Chelsea's player transfers and contract extensions have been stalled, and home-game ticket sales have been halted. A set of extremely oppressive combination punches plunged Chelsea into an unprecedented crisis, and also made the British government's only remaining possibility of reversing the reputation of public opinion completely blocked.
Think about it, it is over, what is the significance of the so-called decency? In the eyes of so-called Western leaders, football is just a tool that can be sacrificed at any time, let alone a simple investor. Those things that are cherished by every fan of chi-knack: love, affection, are discarded by them without even blinking.
The world has never been black and white, but there is at least a clear sense of boundary between black and white, good and bad. But in the case of Abu, we can only say that the real world is worse than we think. It's sad and sad.
Just a few hours after the official announcement of the British government, Chelsea beat Norwich 3-1 away, winning four consecutive league games and continuing to sit firmly in the top three. In front of them are Manchester City and Liverpool. Behind them are Arsenal and Manchester United.
Such a ranking is like telling about Abu's 20 years in the Blues. This is a new upstart giant built with more than 2 billion pounds, real money and silver. With the efforts of generation after generation, it has climbed to a position comparable to the traditional might, tearing and fighting on this territory of the weak and the strong, and the throne has also suffered setbacks. They have copied the ambition of Lord Foweh to "drive Liverpool off the throne", and they have also witnessed the new king Manchester City build up his empire with an even more destructive gold dollar offensive.
All this is the normal law of the jungle. It's brutal, but it's also beautiful, because these uncertainties build the most fundamental charm of football. For investors, this is an expected and valuable adventure. They may be prophets, hunters, or even werewolves, creating topics and stories for this league in every possible way.
But Abu's ending dealt a blow to his heart: they seemed to be swinging a wave, and in the eyes of the so-called Western civilization and political correctness, they were just civilians, even prey that could be killed at will. Once the storm struck, they were sacrificed and sacrificed as rewards, and the stories they left behind were lighter than the feathers.
Just a few days ago, the Russian men's soccer team was expelled from the World Cup in Qatar. Polish striker Levan, who was supposed to play a play-off with them, said: "None of us can imagine a different situation, I think it was the right decision. It's hard to pick another team to play with us in the semi-finals of the play-offs because every team that isn't selected can feel unfair. ”
See, if this represents the mainstream values of football, it can only be said that compared to the sad air crashes in history, the deaths of great stars, those match-fixing and bizarre penalties, this is the "darkest day" in the history of football.
Because it directly shakes the beautiful definition that football has left in each of our hearts, it is our faith in the face of suffering strongly, and it is also our window to understand the world gently. But what we see now is only black and white, which has blurred its boundaries, and the brutality with which arbitrariness and dictatorship can oppress all efforts and efforts.
Again, Abu is not necessarily a good person, nor is he a good stubble. In that special era in Russia, Abu's road to prosperity was full of too much controversy and unseemly things, but in football, Abu's persistence is a model for all investors. Those who use Abu's past to define what he did in the football world are stupid and bad. The next time I meet someone who says these things, I urge you to stay away from them. After all, man cannot live too much in Britain, and if he is upside down, he will eventually fall.
If one day in the future, a serious crisis of racial discrimination or other conflicts breaks out in British football, resulting in the suspension of the league, I wonder if those politicians who are running away will shout passionately:
"Stop, football has nothing to do with politics!