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Daily Express
|September 01, 2023
THE SPLURGE GOES ON
CHELSEA'S new owners have spent one billion pounds on developing a footballing thoroughbred.
But while they thought big they should have been taking a lesson from the man who invented the Mini. For it was Sir Alec Issigonis who first claimed that a camel was a horse designed by committee.
The way Chelsea's new owners have approached their first year in charge, he could have predicted the fans would have ended up with the hump.
This story is from the September 01, 2023 edition of Daily Express.
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