Booing GOATs at PSG and the last days of the ‘Roman Empire’ at Chelsea: Football’s Surreal Sunday – The Warm-Up

MONDAY’S BIG STORIES Last days of the Roman empire Ad/> With two away games and an international break on the way, Chelsea are not back playing at Stamford Bridge until a meeting with Brentford on April 2, and so yesterday’s narrow 1-0 win over Newcastle could well be their final ever home game of the Roman Abramovich era. Premier League'I will drive a seven-seater' — Tuchel on restrictions trouble16 HOURS AGO His “Roman empire” banner was still up, but whether that remains the case in three weeks’ time remains to be seen, and heaven only knows where the Russian was – his current location is reportedly unknown – and if he was even watching as Chelsea played under the most bizarre of circumstances: still donning sponsors who want their logos removed from the shirts, the club shop outside closed, tickets unavailable to buy, and the club’s credit account reportedly frozen too.

Beforehand you had Petr Cech admitting it's a «day by day» job, and then after, you had Thomas Tuchel joking about driving a seven-seater in his bid to get Chelsea to Lille this week. All very surreal.

/> It just so happened to be the club seeking new ownership against the side with the newest owners in the Premier League, the richest in the world even. “Chelsea get bankrupt everywhere they go,” Newcastle fans chanted.

So too “Chelsea’s skint and the Mags are rich.” One of the few comebacks Chelsea fans could come up with was “Boris Johnson, he’s coming for you,” intimating the heat will turn on Newcastle next – the Saudi Arabian-backed club. There was even a flag of Saudi Arabia in the away end, a day after the kingdom executed 81 men on Saturday, its largest ever mass execution.