WAYNE BRIDGE has revealed the moment that former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich flew him on his private jet.
The former Chelsea star was given a flight to London by the Russian billionaire after breaking both his leg and ankle against Newcastle in 2005.
Bridge, 43, suffered the injury after he changed his boot studs to blades.
He was tackled by Alan Shearer but his foot got stuck in the ground which led to an eight-month spell on the sidelines.
He has recently joked that the horror injury was worthwhile as he was able to enjoy an "unbelievable" flight on Anramovich's private jet.
He told That Peter Crouch podcast: "The funniest thing was Roman ended up picking me up after the game to fly me back home and I had obviously the laughing gas, or gas and air but I was laughing on it.
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"He picked me, took me to the local hospital to see what was wrong, then he picked me up.
"Got a car, took me to the airport and then he picked me up on his plane which was unbelievable.
"But oh my god, the women that were serving on there. My god! I remember Roman looked over to me and went 'don't seem too unhappy now do ya'."
Crouch cut in as he joked: "So wearing the blades was actually the best thing you did!"
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Bridge continued: "The sofas in there, he had some kind of suede-y material around the outside, it was just so plush. And the food mate, the food was unreal.
"[I was] lying down, he's got a massive sofa, me lying down with my feet up.
"Women coming just serving food, like smoked salmon, might have even been oysters, there was all sorts on there."
Abramovich has had a lot of aircraft in his time including a Boeing 787 Dreamliner which commercially can carry up to 296 people.
The Russian owned the Blues between 2003 and 2022 before the club was bought by Todd Boehly's consortium.
Bridge spent five years at Stamford Bridge between 2003 and 2009.
He left the club in a transfer to Manchester City before hanging up his boots in 2014.
The left-back also earned 36 caps for England and won the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup in his career.
During the podcast recording, Bridge also suggested that his former manager Gus Poyet would let the players have "too much sex" while he was at Brighton and Hove Albion.
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