It is if you are British. But if you were part of the countries which were under British rule during the colonial years and had its wealth robbed you develop a different perspective. Essentially GB enjoys all of the benefits of the stolen wealth but doesn't want to deal with any of the consequences of it.
This kind of confused geopolitical and historical whataboutery is simply sportswashing at it's most cynical in action.
The atrocities commited by the British Empire and by imperialist capital in general, from the genocide of aboriginal peoples of Australia and the Americas and the slaughter and enslavery of Africans, to the great 'Famines' in Ireland and India, none of these atrocitues should of course ever be forgotten and economic advantages gained through the butchery and pillage should be recognised and reparations paid.
Nonetheless the British empire does not own one of our clubs today to whitewash its' barbarism. Chelsea was owned by the butcher Abramovic and City are owned by the barbaric state of the UAE. Both are examples of blatant corrupt, oligarchic blood money being used to buy trophys for clubs in order to whitewash the image of their real brutal status.
Chelsea supporters and especially City supporters ( with their " don't give a feck" where the blood money comes from" attitude) have been clearly weaponised by the brutal oligarchs, having swallowed the sportswashing propaganda. Grown men, City fans who choose to defend their owners corrupt project, are in fact cheerleading the horrific human rights abuses and the slaughter of innocents in Yemen today.
There is a time and a place to criticise the British empires violence and theft of other people's resources. If the UK owned one of our clubs for sportswashing purposes then yes we would be right to slate British imperialist violence here. But the UK does not own Chelsea or City or any other club.
Now that Abramovich has rightly been kicked out of football, let's concentrate on getting rid of other sportswashing blood money owners too.
So let's stick to highlighting the City sportswashing project that is pumping in billions to hide the reality of their brutal regime. Please Google Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for details.
The brutal regimes of the UAE and now Saudi Arabia at Newcastle too should never have been allowed ownershio of any of our football clubs. We football fans need to to do all we can to get the horrific human rights abusing regimes out of football.