The reclusive Russian has neither confirmed nor denied it, but the accepted version of history is that a game in Manchester prompted Roman Abramovich to buy a football club. A decade after the bittersweet brilliance of Manchester United's 4-3 win over Real Madrid, after Ronaldo's magnificent hat-trick and David Beckham's devastating cameo in a lost cause, a Mancunian meeting of two billionaires' playthings offered further evidence of Chelsea's troubles.
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