Are Chelsea becoming the pariahs of the Premiership?

WITH HIS omnipresent smile, Roman Abramovich looked the image of benignity last month on the day Chelsea picked up their first championship title in 50 years at Stamford Bridge.

It was only when you flicked through the pages of the match programme that the clue to a more sinister future was unveiled in one revealing sentence from the world's most famous oil billionaire.

Abramovich's aim?