The anniversary of Abramovich’s first fully tooled up side shows how the club are going backwards despite millions spent
It was twenty years ago today. Or close enough, at least, to make for a startling sense of circularity.
As Chelsea travel to Bournemouth on Sunday in search of their first away win since March (also, by coincidence, at Bournemouth) there might just be a spare moment in the day to celebrate an overlooked anniversary, two decades on from the most violently transformative summer in the modern history of English football.
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