“I think the real reckoning is that Russian money and Russian influence with power was allowed to infiltrate Western economies and political systems in a way that was profoundly unhealthy.”
The sanctions placed on Roman Abramovich in the UK have created uncertainty about the future of his football club, Chelsea FC. Dion Fanning talks to the sportswriter Paul Hayward about the rise and fall of Abramovich, the money in the Premier League and where English football - and England - goes from here.
