Chelsea were very fitting winners of this FIFA Club World Cup | OneFootball

The FIFA Club World Cup Final, Chelsea defeat PSG 3-0.

There couldn’t really have been more fitting winners.

An obscene ridiculous tournament that has been forced to happen for all the wrong reasons.

An obscene ridiculous club that has been allowed to get away with so much for all the wrong reasons.

The fact that Chelsea ‘qualified’ for the FIFA Club World Cup due to something that happened back during the shameful reign of Roman Abramovich, says it all.

Yes, these latest disgraceful characters who own Chelsea now, benefiting due to Roman Abramovich buying this small London club the Champions League trophy back in 2021 in front of no fans (very fitting!) during Covid. Just as he had been allowed to do, buying trophies for Chelsea across the previous two decades without challenge to how he/they operated.

How this FIFA Club World Cup has been funded is a mystery, well it is and it isn’t. It just all stinks.

The similar kind of stink that emanates from how Chelsea have funded their operations.

The Chelsea owners bending and indeed breaking the rules.

Yet whilst UEFA aren’t quite as feeble as the Premier League when dealing with the likes of Chelsea and the other usual suspects, the fact remains that it was still only a fine of £30m the Stamford Bridge club recently picked up as their punishment for breaking the financial rules by a massive distance, as UEFA wouldn’t allow them the same ridiculous Premier League loopholes of selling their own hotels and women’s team to themselves.

To put this UEFA £30m ‘punishment’ into perspective, FIFA have now handed them almost £100m via this FIFA Club World Cup farce.

At times you feel like football in the present day bears no relationship to what you grew up with, the sport you love(d?).

Watching this rubbish last night, maybe it was the ultimate in that respect. The horrific half hour half-time show, probably the pinnacle of that.

The thing that always gets me, is why FIFA, the governing body for world football, has to have a dictator in charge? Why and when was this decided? We thought we had seen it all with Sepp Blatter. Only to discover that this Gianni Infantino is so so much worse.

Why is one person allowed to dictate everything that happens at FIFA? Once elected, having seemingly ultimate power. Sounds a bit like somebody else who was in attendance at the FIFA Club World Cup Final on Sunday (and didn’t have a clue what he was watching!).

Actually, both clubs in this nightmare vision of the future FIFA Club World Cup Final, couldn’t have been better chosen.

PSG didn’t even exist until the 1970s. A group of businessmen thought they could make some money as Paris didn’t have a major football club, so PSG became a thing. It was plagued by one financial crisis after another, stumbling along, then Qatar came along and did for them, what Roman Abramovich did for Chelsea, what Abu Dhabi did for Manchester City.

Chelsea didn’t really exist until Roman Abramovich came along, they had only ever won one league title in their entire history. They had only won one FA Cup before 1997. Chelsea were on their knees financially when Ken Bates sold to Abramovich in 2003.

There are genuine longstanding Chelsea fans, just not very many of them. I suppose a few more than PSG had until the 1970s!

Anyway, as I watched the blazing sun beat down on the Chelsea players (and PSG players) on Sunday 13 July 2025 in this FIFA Club World Cup Final, I am sure I was having the same thought as the rest of you. In the rush for greed and a ridiculous trophy nobody cares about, here’s hoping that Chelsea (and PSG) face a 2025/26 season ruined on the pitch by their participation in this summer madness.