This stuff is like crack to me. And yeah, it always made sense to me that Roy was sold directly after Sunderland's relegation in order to make the club some money, in the summer transfer window of 2003. That is very very very much in keeping with how these things go in football. Earlier is possible, but I think the sale after relegation makes the most sense and has the most emotional resonance with the events of the show. I love that they got RLC in on it as someone who Roy would have known since he came up from the Chelsea academy, but yeah, that blue box info is nonsense. It should have more than one FA Cup marked (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012) and about 5 Prem trophy wins too (2005, 2006, 2010, 2015).
My opinion, which is supported by semi canon, is also that he left Chelsea at the end of the 15/16 season - that the story he told in 3.02 was the lead up to Summer 2016. That summer was also his last England appearance, according to the Arlo White notes - the real life loss to Iceland - and there's a Twitter video about Richmond history talking about March 2017, showing him playing there then. So the latest he could have joined RICHMOND was the January window of 2017, but we know he left Chelsea at the end of a normal season so, summer 2016 transfer window. My only question is if he'd already made his mind up about leaving Chelsea before the shitty 2016 Euros, or if that helped put the nail in the coffin. Or if he knew already he was leaving Chelsea, at least internally, but also knew he was reliably going to be called up to do his duty for England or whatever, and committed to it in a leadership capacity even if he didn't feel he should play. One last hurrah, all that. The summer of 2016 must have been truly wretched for him.
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