{"id":8382,"date":"2026-05-14T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:42:37","slug":"chelsea-fans-set-to-march-in-blueco-protest-before-fa-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8382","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Fans Set to March in BlueCo Protest Before FA Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \">\n                <\/aside>\n<p>            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea fans will make their way down Wembley Way in a peaceful protest against the club\u2019s BlueCo owners ahead of Saturday\u2019s FA Cup final against Manchester City. Fan group <em>Not A Project CFC<\/em> has organised the protest to start from Wembley Park tube station at 1:30 pm local time, believed to be a first for a club reaching a cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have drifted towards mid-table obscurity this season despite lifting the Conference League and Club World Cup last summer, and discontent towards co-owners Behdad Eghbali and Todd Boehly has spiralled. Liam Rosenior\u2019s sacking in April, after just 23 games in charge, means BlueCo are now looking for their sixth permanent manager since taking over in 2022, fuelling deep resentment about the direction of the project.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main organisers of the march, David Cook, a lifelong Chelsea fan, spoke to The Mirror about the rationale behind the demonstration:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such an iconic walk up Wembley Way, and it will be something of a first. This is our club, we are passionate, and we support our team. We want it back. Visually, it will have a huge impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Further action is planned for next Tuesday\u2019s Premier League home fixture against Tottenham Hotspur. In the 22nd minute (the year the current owners took over in 2022), the fans will get to their feet and turn their backs to the pitch in a unified gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Co-owner Eghbali has acknowledged that mistakes have been made, but says the club is committed to moving forward, recognising the need to add more ready-made players and to find consistency over time. Interim boss Calum McFarlane may or may not engineer an upset on Saturday, but fans have vowed to continue their protests until meaningful change is forced.<\/p>\n<h2>Manchester City Eye Domestic Cup Double As Chelsea Prepare For Wembley Test<\/h2>\n<p>Manchester City are overwhelming bookmakers\u2019 favourites ahead of Saturday\u2019s Wembley showpiece. Pep Guardiola\u2019s Citizens are the front-runners ahead of the 16:30 kick-off, with most fans and pundits making them the favourites. Having already won the EFL Cup, City could become only the sixth team in the history of English football to win both major domestic cup competitions in the same season.<\/p>\n<p>Cityzens\u2019 route to the final has been emphatic, with Erling Haaland\u2019s hat-trick leading the charge in a 4-0 demolition of Liverpool in the quarter-finals before a late comeback against Championship side Southampton in the semi-final. Strangely, the Norwegian goal machine is yet to score in a final for City, going eight appearances and 11 shots without scoring at Wembley, a curious anomaly Chelsea will hope continues.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, for the Blues, recent history offers very little comfort as they prepare for this clash. City are unbeaten in their last 13 games against Chelsea in all competitions since the 2021 Champions League final, winning 10 and drawing three. But with Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez in goalscoring form, the only scorer in the semi-final win over Leeds, McFarlane\u2019s men will be hoping a cup final upset can salvage some pride from a chaotic campaign.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \">\n                <\/aside>\n<p>            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea fans will make their way down Wembley Way in a peaceful protest against the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}