The mobile phone company Three has suspended its sponsorship of Chelsea and asked the club to remove the logo from their shirts with immediate effect.
The news came after Chelsea’s owner, Roman Abramovich, was placed under sanctions by the UK government for being “associated with a person who is or has been involved in destabilising Ukraine and and undermining and threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, namely Vladimir Putin, with whom Abramovich has had a close relationship for decades”.