RUSSIAN CHELSEA

It soon becomes clear that he has no political ambitions, but he does have sporting ones: he is passionate about football. In May 2003, he bought London's Chelsea and won the Premier League, then a few seasons later claimed a dramatic Champions League victory. By 2022, Chelsea had won every trophy in European football, but that same year, Abramovich sold the club. To assess and make sense of the Abramovich era in English football, we are joined by manager Avram Grant and footballer Alexey Smertin, journalists Vasily Utkin and Timur Zhuravel, and well-known Chelsea fans Danila Kozlovsky and Evgeny Chebatkov. How will the Russian businessman be remembered – as an eccentric billionaire, or as the man who changed football forever? One thing is certain: few are likely to forget him.