Revealing all: The inside story set to be released by former Chelsea owner will ruffle feathers
Revealing all: The inside story set to be released by former Chelsea owner will ruffle feathers
Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is set to release a book soon and tell a story that will surely ruffle some feathers.
The Blues came from a goal down to score two very late goals to win the game 2-1 against Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday afternoon in what was a very dramatic game of ups and downs. But for 80 minutes, it was a lot of downs for Chelsea and the woes were continuing. Thankfully, they managed to get two late goals from individual brilliance to win the game.
Still, manager Enzo Maresca did not celebrate the Chelsea win over with the away fans like all the players did at the end of the game, which was very odd. But he has explained his reasoning for this in the post match press conference, although it wont wash.
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The fans were furious throughout most of the game though and certainly let the manager and the players know this at half time and throughout the game. Pedro Neto responded to the fan anger in his post-match comments after the game on Sunday.
A lot has changed at Chelsea since the new owners came in three years ago after Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the UK Government. And we might soon hear about what actually went down.
Roman to release a book
The BBC report that Abramovich will discuss the sale of the club in a new book set to be released this summer after giving his first interview in four years.
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The book named 'Sanctioned: The Inside Story of the Sale of Chelsea FC' is written by Nick Purewal and will also tell other stories from that accelerated 95-day sale – run by Raine Bank under the supervision of the UK government – and will be released by Biteback Publishing this summer.
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