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It feels very much in the background today, but there is a full set of fixtures in the Premier League this weekend. Two teams in entirely different veins of form meet at the Amex on Saturday:

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Sophie Downey was at the Chigwell Construction Stadium in Dagenham on Thursday night to talk to fans of Chelsea Women about a turbulent day for the club. Emma Hayes’s side had little trouble on the pitch but uncertainty is rife off it.

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Government minister Chris Philp has urged Chelsea fans to stop singing Roman Abramovich’s name (thereby probably prompting them to do it even more loudly). PA Media has the story:

Chelsea fans have been asked to refrain from chanting in support of their owner Roman Abramovich by a Government minister. Supporters of the west London club sang Abramovich’s name during the Premier League win at Norwich on Thursday night, hours after the Government had imposed sanctions on him due to his links to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

… The technology minister Chris Philp urged Blues fans to remember why Abramovich had been sanctioned in the first place.

“I’m a football fan myself, I’m a Palace fan, in south London. So I understand why fans are very attached to their football clubs,” he told BBC Radio Four’s Today Programme on Friday