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Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

zola — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:16 -0000

I think we can safely assume the author of this "article" does not live in London or visit the Bridge much. The stuff about the "psychological difference", north/south divide etc. is total rubbish. It would be sad to leave the Bridge but we have to plan for a post-Roman world sooner rather than later. And if we develop the Bridge into flats and sell them off at >£500k a pop then the move could be almost self-financing.

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

WHIZZ — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:17:39 -0000

The talk about it being a 'massive deal' moving south of the river is rubbish. I'd say the walk is more like 40 mins and traditionally Battersea is home to a large majority of true Chelsea fans.

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

PJ — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:25:06 -0000

My dad was a Chelsea fan born in Battersea in 1922. I don't think he worried too much about the walk. Nowadays, the majority of London-based Chelsea fans are in South London as far as I can make out. If anybody is too worried about the walk, they could always try Queenstown Road station anyway. Or, with the price of a ticket into Stamford Bridge, they'll probably run to a sherbet in any case - it ain't that far "Nah, South of the river guv' really.

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

Abhimanyu — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:53:34 -0000

being a club of such stature chelsea have to leave stanford bridge someday. it is the time for them to be in a stadium filled with state of the art facilities.
chelsea should leave the present and look at the future.
giving the growth,we need a mamoth stadium to compete with real or man utd.

and for the wealth,roman is still one of the richest and he is staying at the club for atleast next 5 years as he still needs to earn from his investments.
what say chelsea fans???

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

PaulieB — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:00:18 -0000

It takes 51 minutes actually, and it's common knowledge that Chelsea will be moving and selling Stamford Bridge using the model Arsenal used when selling the flats built in Highbury.

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

thegaffer — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:23:53 -0000

Peter, if you don't believe me, try Google Maps at http://tinyurl.com/63yxkl It shows 59 minutes estimated walking distance.

Cheers,
The Gaffer

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

Since66 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:01:51 -0000

The site that has the biggest rumour is on the North side down by the river along Townmead Road - a derelict gas site. A new railway station is already under construction and has been named as Imperial Wharf.

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

Rob — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:24:14 -0000

My Grandad used to walk from Battersea to SB to watch Chelsea and later on my uncles as well. I am willing to bet that a large percentage of Chelsea's original supporters came from there and the surrounding areas south of the Thames.

Not a bad choice of location if they were to move. My only concern would be for the dogs home as we have had 2 dogs from there and they do a fantastic job.

Also as mentioned previously the name is owned by CPO, so they would have to agree to the move.

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

peter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:52:18 -0000

What a complete and utter load of old bollo this article is. There isn't one piece of factual data. "it takes an hour to walk from SB to Battersea" ha hah hahahah

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

dave — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:48:01 -0000

Yep - The CPO, Chelsea Pitch Oweners would have to give the go ahead for Chelsea to keep the name

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

John hannam — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:47:51 -0000

Chelsea Pitch Owners is effectively a trust that was set up which owns "the pitch" and name and was set up specifically to prevent proerty developers trying to buy the ground and throw the club out as looked likely for a while in the 80's. It was a very clever ploy by ken Bates and it worked. In this situation it's very likely that any move would (although sad) still be to the benefit of the club and supporters and would probably be reluctantly agreed so would not cause any problems.

Re: Why Chelsea Needs to Move to Battersea Power Station

Panda — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:18:02 -0000

Isn't there some kind of deal where the supporters club owns the name Chelsea and if they ever moved from Stamford Bridge the club couldn't keep the name Chelsea?