Chelsea - More Apologies For Mr Abramovich?

You wonder how they get away with printing this stuff sometimes, don't you?

This time last week, splashed all across the Sunday tabloids, was the story that our wealthy owner, Roman Abramovich, had spent rather a lot of money on a restaurant meal out.

The reports claimed, in fact, that the Russian had spent over £30k wining and dining his son, girlfriend and a couple of friends, in a nice Italian in New York.

It was promptly branded a disgrace, that someone could spend so much money on an evening's meal, rubbing his vast wealth in the noses of the unemployed and homeless during a time of real recession.

Here at Vital Chelsea, we made our own little side-comment about the story, basically asking 'who cares?'

Abramovich - Who Cares?

However, this morning, one of those very same rags that ran so prominently with the 'sensational' story last week, has issued another grovelling apology.

The Mirror, a notoriously anti-Chelsea rag, has claimed that the £30k meal was actually made up, and Abramovich only spent £1,000 in the restauarant that night. They are, of course, happy to make this clear, particularly now that they've sold x amount more papers because of the story.

Which begs the question, how do the rags keep getting away with blatantly lying and making stuff up?

A couple of months ago, they lied about Salomon Kalou's birthday party, saying he spent thousands of pounds on booze when he didn't even spend a penny.

Last week, Michael Essien successfully sued another newspaper for lying about him having an affair.

Several months ago, Abramovich sued another rag for claiming he was selling up at Chelsea because he was bored.

All, clearly, blatant lies, and lies that these journalists know full well they are telling when they send a story to print.

And people like Abramovich are just forced to sit back and take the flak, knowing that it'll be months before the newspaper accepts they got it wrong, by which point the mud has already stuck, and nobody really cares. That's if they can read the tiny little apology printed in the corner of Page 47.

Apologies for the Sunday morning rant, but the moral of this piece is to simply ask a question; is anyone actually going to do something about these rags printing whatever rubbish they want? Or are we all going to be subjected to their ridiculous, fictional bile forevermore?

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