Abramovich backs Ancelotti, hires Black Eyed Peas for party

Category: Football

Publish Date: 12-28-2010 07:13 PM -0500

Roman Abramovich watches Chelsea and/or listens to the Black Eyed Peas.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is going to have a massive New Year's Eve extravaganza at his $90 million 70-acre St. Barts estate that will include the Black Eyed Peas as entertainment (or something) for his hundreds of guests. But while his party planners busy themselves with that, he's been attending to the growing list of concerns at Chelsea.

According to the Telegraph's Jason Burt, the Chelsea board had a chat after Arsenal finally managed to beat them on Monday and everything that came out of those talks sounds like good news for Carlo Ancelotti:

[T]he Russian billionaire insisted that he not only wanted Ancelotti to carry on but accepted that he needed to support him in the transfer market and, it is understood, also acknowledged that mistakes had been made in the manner of the sacking of Ray Wilkins as assistant manager.

Of course, a club owner backing his embattled manager can be just as much a sign of blind-sided sacking as an affirmation of trust. But the acknowledgements that Chelsea need to stop waving as transfer windows drift by and that the Ray Wilkins debacle wasn't handled correctly can only be seen as positives. 

We'll have to wait and see if these words translate into January actions. In the meantime, the party's at Roman's and Vladimir Putin's buying bodyshots for everybody. Woooooooooooooo!

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