Boehly’s Chelsea show the distorting effect of money without sense or love | Barney Ronay


Real Madrid just had to be good enough against opponents resembling a sinking vessel peopled by castaways

Well, there goes the season. Perhaps summer budget too. Who knows maybe the entire Chelsea 3.0 Blue Sky Project Stage One?

With 28 minutes to go in a Champions League second leg Chelsea always seemed to be losing, even when they were threatening vaguely to win it, the home bench took a deep breath, cleared its throat, and coughed up £260m of randomly assembled attacking talent.

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