oil club

plural oil clubs

1. derogatoryball gamesA football club funded by a wealthy owner or investor involved in the oil industry

   Let's send this oil club back to Saudi Arabia once and for all

   2015 December 22, @HighburyJoe, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 20 Sep 2026

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   Tell a stranger you’re a City fan today, and there’s a chance you’ll get talked at about what a disgraceful bunch of ‘cheats’ your ‘plastic oil club’ is, and how the game has ‘gone’ and is rotten.

   2025, Dom Farrell, chapter 13, in Glory Days for the Waifs and Strays, London: Biteback Publishing, →ISBN

   And their opponents for the weekend between Liverpool matches are Lens, currently just a point back of PSG in the table and eager to try to break the oil club’s stranglehold on the French league that has seen them win the last four titles.

   2026 March 19, Noel Chomyn, “Paris Saint-Germain to Play Title Decider Between Liverpool Legs”, in The Liverpool Offside, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2026