Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has handed graffiti artist Aaron Bird a cool £100,000 to brighten the club's new training complex.

Bird's work is already a favourite with a host of Premiership stars, with similar figures being spent on his art.

"I'm honoured and privileged to have been noticed by Chelsea," the tagger, from the Midlands, told the Sunday Mirror. "It is a completely different world with different people and different amounts of money but we do have some things in common.

"Chelsea want to be the biggest club in football and I have always wanted to be the number one artist."