Soccer: Abramovich won’t be party to criticism

ROMAN ABRAMOVICH turned up at Chelsea’s Christmas party to tell his glittering array of stars he is 100% behind them as they bid to bounce back from successive defeats.

The Russian billionaire, whose £111million summer transfer spree transformed the Blues from Premiership pretenders to title contenders, wanted to show his support for the team after their first real blip of his reign.

Claudio Ranieri's men who have lost 2-1 twice in the last week, at home to Bolton in the Premiership and at Villa in the Carling Cup quarter-finals face West London rivals Fulham today.