Chelski Power Station.....

[ELVIS68]

Just read Chelsea want to build a new stadium in Battersea Power Station.

What about Stamford Bridge?

You can't just bulldoze 6 years of history.

[whiskeryron]

So much for the italics.

[tonyav]

Bloody hell Ron, I remember them lol.

[joggerjayne]

No, I like to pick a team to win.

I'd get good odds on picking the score.

How about 2-1 to Villa?

I think I'll have a tenner on a win, and a tenner on 2-1

=0)

[tonyav]

1- nil to the Villa, 2-1 is a bit ambitious.

[joggerjayne]

Okay, 1-0

[SeaJayPea]

To get back to the original question, Abramovich owns the club, the ground and eveything to do with it - with the exception of the freehold on the ground, the pitch and the name Chelsea FC. In an attempt to keep the club out of the hands of property developers, Ken Bates sold these to an organisation called Chelsea Pitch Owners in 1992 and any change will need 75% of the members to agree. Looks unlikely at the moment.

http://en.wikipedia.o.../Chelsea_Pitch_Owners

[FredPuli43]

Big site, the unloved wreck of a power station will be removed, but getting there will not be easy. There's no tube station near it. Vauxhall tube is a healthy walk, and you can guess the physical condition of Chelsea fans; a twenty stone bloke in a Torres shirt is not an unusual sight at the Bridge. Otherwise it's a bus, which is unfeasible, or the overground trains, which will take a fair bit of time given that they're never as frequent as the tube's.

Earl's Court is a much better site; it's served by the adjacent Earl's Court tube station, designed to accommodate crowds for ther exhibition halls, which is where most fans go to now because they change there for the line to the tube station, Fulham Broadway, near the ground. Can't see Battersea being taken.

[ELVIS68]

Apparently Fred they intend to extend the northern line for easier access

[rowanwitch]

Bog off Elvis... If they want to move to South Chelsea all the better.... We may not have the record of a club like Liverpool but the past is the past and its the future that counts...

[Duncer]

I can't help but think of a certain Pink Floyd album, and what was flying over the power station.

[FredPuli43]

It seems, from the press, that the power station building is to be preserved. It must be very big site there. Fulham still has what is 'the cottage' of 'Craven Cottage', from when the site was part of the lands of a local bishop, but that's quite tiny. The Battersea buliding is enormous, roofless, and possessed of one fine room, originally part of the control rooms. Still, that would make a fine boardroom for Mr Abramovich, though knowing his taste, he may want the whole building for his personal space.

Don't why they don't just demolish it. It's now an eyesore, listed though it is, of no beauty or great significance. Mind, it was worse when it was operating: the window sills for miles around got deposits of soot !

[DTCwordfan]

six years and thats all - why not?

[MASS1961]

Chelsea Football Club submitted a bid to build a 60,000-seater stadium on the 39-acre site, with the club also saying they would restore the Power Station's four iconic chimneys and west turbine hall

[DTCwordfan]

Believe me, JJ, it would be moving down market big time to move to Battersea - just take a look at the railway station and environs,as well as Clapham Junction.....almost Streatham High Street.......Abramovich wants a write-off for building his personal London heli-pad.

[DaisyNonna]

Johnny Dixon was my Villa hero when I was young.