I have a big Chelsea fan stayin with me at the moment and he tells me that Abramovich wasnt a Chelsea fan before he bought the club - he was a football fan and had seen the quality of the Premiership, liked it and wanted a piece of the action so to speak. Luckily for Chelsea, or unluckily, dependant on how you want to look at the situation, Ken Bates met Abramovich and convinced him that Chelsea was the club. Up until that point, all Abramovich had done was put his oil company on the front of CSKA Moscows shirts...
Ilyas will continue to support Stanley as he has been doing all this time - as a freind and supporter of the club - its just something like naming a stand/roof is obviously a more public thing for him to do... I bet you if, god forbid, Stanley were ever in danger of going under (cant see that under King Eric though) he would step in to help out too...
Jimbo T
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