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I've been saying this for years: football has always had the ability to ignore the stench of money…just so long as they see the colour of it.

How many times have questions been raised about owners of clubs, only for concerns to be waived away, and agreements waved through, because of the money involved?

It’s not just Chelsea. Boris Johnson apparently intervened to help ease through the sale of Newcastle to Saudi Arabian interests. Russian money, Chinese money, money from states with dubious human rights records, it’s all washed through football in recent years.

And washing is the right word, because we all know about sportswashing nowadays. People are prepared to hold their noses and ignore the smell, just so long as it suits their club.

I’m not blaming Chelsea for what has happened to their club. The players, the manager, the staff, all the people who could potentially lose their jobs, the fans, they can’t take responsibility for something Vladimir Putin has done. And this whole obscene war is down to one man’s madness.

Yet we knew for years the alleged connection between Roman Abramovich and Putin. That is why he has been