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Chelsea fans protest against their club owners outside Wembley prior to FA Cup Final

Chelsea fans protest against their club owners outside Wembley prior to their side’s FA Cup Final against Manchester City.

As the atmosphere was building, Blues fans made their feelings known of the BlueCo ownership, with Behdad Eghbali and Todd Boehly in attendance for the showpiece fixture.

The protest got underway around 1:30pm on Wembley Way, the chants of “We want BlueCo out”, “Roman Abramovich”, “We don’t care about Clearlake” and “You can’t stick you f***ing project up your a*se” soon heard as fans make their way towards Wembley.

A spokesperson of the protest organisers, Not A Project CFC, told Standard Sport: “As much as I have found it amusing watching Tottenham Hotspur at times this season,

“I do agree with the sentiment among our fanbase that that could very easily be us in the next few years. I genuinely believe that relegation is possible for a club like us.

“I thought it was absolutely impossible when BlueCo bought the club, but now I see it as very possible.”

NotAProjectCFC tweeted:

The bigger picture is that the current owners of Chelsea Football Club are not fit for purpose.

If supporters agree with the principle of taking action against the ownership, as we believe many do then walking up Wembley Way tomorrow prior to the FA Cup Final really shouldn’t be an issue.

We’ve heard plenty of noise around “supporting the team on cup final day” so let’s put that narrative to bed right now.

We will ALWAYS support the team.

This protest is not aimed at the players. It’s aimed at the people running this football club into the ground. Framing it any other way is, in our opinion, is shortsighted.

Let’s rewind 11 months.

Club World Cup winners.
Fast forward to now:

✅ 9th in the league
✅ Unlikely to have European football next season
✅ A CWC winning manager resigns. The second manager to do so under Blueco
✅ Compliant Liam sacked
✅ Kinetic Cal leading the side into an FA Cup Final
✅ Player unrest across the squad
✅ Ticketing policy controversy
✅ Damning CST surveys & statements
✅ Rival managers laughing in our directors box
✅ Record financial losses at club and holdco level.
✅ Sporting directors handed 60% pay rises despite catastrophic failures

Tomorrow the world’s media will descend on Wembley and they will cover the protest.

We have one more opportunity this season to send a powerful message directly to our OWNERS that enough is enough.

BluecoOut

NotAProjectCFC announces two further protests before the end of the season

Following our protest march alongside fans of RC Strasbourg before the Manchester United home game last month, and the attention created by our Blueco Out digivan which fans saw ahead of the FA Cup semi final against Leeds, we are now able to announce further protest action at two more games this season.

Protest before the FA Cup final

First, we invite Chelsea fans to join us on a protest march on Wembley Way ahead of the FA Cup final against Manchester City on Saturday, 16 May. We will be marching from the steps outside Wembley Park Underground station, all the way up to the stadium before kick off.

The march will be getting underway around 1:30pm and will feature a large banner that will focus not just on Blueco, but also the sporting directors.

Protest during Chelsea vs Tottenham

Following this, we are planning to move our efforts into a stadium during a match for the first time when we play Tottenham Hotspur at home on Tuesday, 19 May.

We will be taking action as the clock strikes 22 minutes, marking the year Blueco bought the club (2022). We urge supporters to stand up (if you are able to stand), turn their backs on the game for one minute and join in with the chant “We want our Chelsea back.”

While we recognise the importance of both matches, we feel these steps are absolutely necessary in an attempt to send a public message that we have no faith in the current ownership and the direction the club is heading.

Future action

Following a run of six consecutive Premier League defeats, our worst league run since 1993, and a run of one clean sheet in 19 Premier League games, we find ourselves in ninth place in the table at the time of writing. Given the unprecedented expenditure on the men’s first team since Blueco acquired the club, this is absolutely unacceptable.

However, our issues stretch far beyond recent form. We also wish to stress our efforts will be unperturbed by any potential announcements or reports regarding the identity of the next permanent men’s first team manager in the lead up to these protests.

The issues at the club go far beyond any manager. Until meaningful change is brought about to the environment in which they operate, the identity of these managers will be futile. We also have no faith that the club is entering any period of “self-reflection” as stated. We are interested in actions, not words.

Claiming you are taking a period of self-reflection is meaningless if those in control do not publicly outline the mistakes they have identified nor outline how they plan to rectify them.

These protest actions will continue beyond the end of this season, and will not cease until we have forced change. With regards to future action, we will soon be launching a crowdfunding page to help fund these efforts.

Together, we can get our club back as we know it.

Up the Chels!

#BluecoOut

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