Chelsea: The 100-year History (Mainstream Sport) Book

In the blistering high summer of 2003, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich acquired Chelsea Football Club. It was a sensational event that sent shockwaves reverberating around the football world. Chelsea was transformed overnight into arguably the most powerful club in the world by virtue of the vast fortune bestowed upon it by its benefactor. This was an amazing twist to a story that started almost a century before on a piece of wasteground in west London. In this excellent sequel to Chelsea: Football Under the Blue Flag, Mears and Macleay recount events at London's most glamorous club since its formation in 1905. Just as its many exciting players have become creatures of myth, so too have its managers proved to be some of the most flamboyant and controversial in the history of the game. Chelsea: The 100-Year History is peopled with unforgettable characters and traces some of the most important matches and crises in its trajectory from glory to impoverishment and back again.