Chelsea will now only sell you replica shirts in exchange for your firstborn son or daughter, it has emerged.
From next season, Blues fans who enjoy publicly fantasising that they are professional footballers will only be able to do so after surrendering their eldest child to club officials for unspecified purposes.
Chelsea fan Dan Lloyd said: “I enjoy dressing up as my favourite celebrity, John Terry, so I’ll be going to a club shop, picking out something in XXXL, and telling my 10-year old, Alfie, that he belongs to Mr Abramovich now.
I’ll be going to a club shop, picking out something in XXXL, and telling my 10-year old, Alfie, that he belongs to Mr Abramovich now
“I expect they’ll make him a ball boy, or possibly train him to kill without mercy in some sort of private army. So long as it helps the share price, that’s the important thing.”
Lloyd acknowledged that it was not an easy decision to hand Alfie over to the hooded figures that have appeared outside official merchandising outlets, but admitted that having regularly affirmed that he was “Chelsea till [he] die[d],” he was left with very little choice.
“I’ll miss Alfie, almost as much as I’m going to miss John Terry,” Lloyd told FourFourTwo. “Still, at least this way I don’t have to buy a shirt for him too.”
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A Chelsea spokesman, clad in robes of midnight blue, said: “If we ever want to challenge for the title again, we need fresh blood, for the spirits are angry and must be appeased.
“By the way, if you want your name on the back, we’ll take your second-born too.”
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