Skip to main content

UEFA ALLOW RUSSIAN TV TO SHOW CHELSEA GAME

UEFA ALLOW RUSSIAN TV TO SHOW CHELSEA GAME 

Daily Mail
BY MATT HUGHES
15 March 2022
242 words
English
DAIM
75
© 2022 Solo Syndication. All rights reserved. 
  •  
  •  

Chelsea's Champions League clash in Lille tomorrow will be broadcast live in Russia on a state-owned TV channel that was set up following a presidential decree from Vladimir Putin.

The Premier League, EFL and FA have all suspended their broadcast contracts in Russia.

But UEFA have yet to make any changes to their TV deals following the invasion of Ukraine meaning that Chelsea's last-16 second-leg tie will be broadcast live despite Blues owner Roman Abramovich being sanctioned last week.

Chelsea's continued television presence in Russia is a source of potential embarrassment to the European champions, who are attempting to distance themselves from Abramovich, and will lead to questions being asked of UEFA.

Despite banning Russian teams from their competitions and cancelling their £33.5million-a-year sponsorship deal with state-owned energy company Gazprom the European competition organiser are continuing to honour their television contracts — a curious anomaly particularly given the ownership structure of the rights holders.

All Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League games in Russia are broadcast by Match TV, which is owned by Gazprom Media.

Fledgling channel Match TV beat Rambler Media, who own the Premier League rights, to win a three-year contract to broadcast the Champions League between 2021 and 2024, just a few years after the broadcaster was set up on the orders of Putin.

© Daily Mail


Popular posts from this blog

(26) Post | LinkedIn

(26) Post | LinkedIn : ► Trump was first compromised by the Russians back in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money and it continued for decades. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump's real estate, but evolved into something far bigger. ► In 1984, David Bogatin — a Russian mobster, convicted gasoline bootlegger, and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were...