FEW people played a greater role than Ken Bates in revolutionising and globalising English football. During his controversial 21-year reign as chairman, Chelsea fielded England’s first all-foreign starting XI, appointed a string of overseas managers and eventually sold to Roman Abramovich — the first foreigner to buy a Premier League club. Ken Bates pulled no punches when talking about the state of the Premier LeagueRex GettyHe sold the club to Roman Abramovich[/caption] Yet as Chelsea’s latest owners, Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali, appoint Enzo Maresca as their fifth manager in two years, Bates hates what English football has become. He told SunSport: “Most clubs are the pla
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