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As if Thaksin Shinawatra wasn't a bad enough addition to the ranks of Premiership owners this year,
Alisher Usmanov, who recently bought a large chunk of Arsenal and seems primed for a takeover bid
within the year, was the subject of an explosive takedown by Craig Murray this weekend. Moreover,
Murray also offers an explanation for [...]
The money going round in the Premier League is now so dizzying, it's almost impossible to
comprehend. In the 1980s and 1990s, when a very rich man such as Rupert Murdoch, Alan Sugar or
Robert Maxwell decided they wanted to be involved in football, there was an almighty fuss. Each of
them had vastly different [...]
Last week, we published a blog post discussing the new investor in Arsenal, Uzbeki steel magnate
Alisher Usmanov. I quoted extensively from an article by Craig Murray (former British Ambassador to
Uzbekistan) on his website, craigmurray.co.uk. That article has now been removed "at the
instigation of Schillings, lawyers retained by Usmanov." This morning I also [.
As I mentioned previously, I chose to take down my post about Craig Murray's article on Usmanov
last week following contact from Schillings, his lawyers. However, given the mainstream media's
remarkable ability to continually balls up this story, I have to revisit some of the facts. I have
been in contact with Paul Kelso, who [...]
As you may know American Enos Stan Kroenke has been buying up shares of England's Arsenal football
club. If Kroenke's going to buy Arsenal, he's going to find a way to do it before Alisher Usmanov
(who? Just a Russian billionaire). Usmanov recently bought ex-Arsenal chairman David Dein's 14.5%
share of the club.
To follow-up briefly once again on the ongoing Alisher Usmanov saga, his high-priced lawyers have
finally gotten their way and Craig Murray's website has been taken down. This follows the massive
legal pressure put on by Schillings to websites such as this one, that only seek to put into the
open claims by Murray which [...]
We now perhaps know why it was this week that Craig Murray's website, which related Uzbeki/Russian
oligarch's Alisher Usmanov's time in prison in the 1980s (he was eventually pardoned, but not by
Gorbachev as his lawyer's wistfully imply; rather, by Putin, a close friend of the Uzbeki) and his
connections to the very shady Uzbeki [...]
In a debate on the European Union's common foreign policy on energy in the European Parliament on
Tuesday please, try to stay awake in class Tom Wise, UK Independent Party MEP, put onto the record
some of Craig Murray's revelations about Alisher Usmanov. Thomas Wise (IND/DEM). – Madam
President, when the EU talks of [...]
Ah, Alisher, don't you learn? As Chicken Yoghurt notes today, Usmanov's recent claim that Craig
Murray's statements about his past were 'beneath his dignity' to respond to ring rather hollow when
his lawyers continue to harass independent websites republishing Murray's article, yet they also
refrain from going after Murray himself, despite his pleas that [.
The various takeovers at Premiership clubs have ellicited vastly differing responses from fans over
the years, for factors too diverse to go into here. Tomorrow, Arsenal take on Manchester United in
the match of the season so far. United fans famously stood up to the takeover by Malcolm Glazer,
and the big fixture is being [...]
Another leading Premiership club moved closer to foreign ownership, with David Dein today
announcing he'd sold his 14.5% share to "a firm co-owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov for
75 million pounds". Dein himself will be chairman of the outfit, "Red and White Holdings", with
another investor, Farhad Moshiri, also involved. This is clearly a [.
In the latest disturbing news in Arsenal's ownership struggle, the British government this week
stonewalled questions in the Houses of Parliament about Alisher Usmanov, everyone's favourite obese
oligarch. Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he
will publish reports received from British embassies relating to Alisher Usmanov.
