Roman Abramovich: Chelsea fans chant owner's name vs Norwich

Thursday was a seismic day for Chelsea Football Club and Roman Abramovich.

In the morning, it was announced the club owner has been sanctioned by the UK following links to Vladimir Putin and his potential involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

From a football perspective, that meant that his assets had been frozen – which includes Chelsea.

A number of sanctions have now been placed on the club that leaves the future of the west London club incredibly uncertain.

Abramovich had previously announced his desire to sell Chelsea but that has now become a lot more difficult.

He would have to apply for a special licence and hand over the process to the UK government. He then wouldn’t receive a penny of the proceeds. Effectively, Abramovich has to give away Chelsea Football Club to the UK government for absolutely nothing.

After almost 20 years of bringing great success to the west London club, there’s a danger all the good work is about to be undone.

But despite yesterday’s news and everything that emerged, it seems Chelsea fans still love Abramovich.

That could be heard ahead of kick-off against Norwich on Thursday night as they chanted the Oligarch’s name which was met by boos from the home fans.

Chelsea fans chant "Roman Abramovich" before kick-off against Norwich City pic.twitter.com/JMMLwES5gJ

Top journalist, Henry Winter, called the chants ’embarrassing.’

It was something the Blues fans did against Burnley last weekend during a show of solidarity to Ukraine.

After that match, manager Thomas Tuchel said: “It was not the moment to do this. Listen, if we show solidarity, we show solidarity we show it together.

”We take the knee together, if an important person from another club or from our club unfortunately dies,