
Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel sounded fed up when he snapped “you have to stop” at journalists questioning him about his club’s owner Roman Abramovich, accused in Parliament of links to corruption and Vladimir Putin’s Russian state.
But the public’s fed up too with all the rotten money that’s been swilling into our capital for years and it’s frankly not good enough to pretend that football can brush aside claims by Labour MP Chris Bryant that Abramovich has bankrolled one of our biggest clubs on the back of a suspect fortune.