Six months and a day since guiding Chelsea to their greatest ever moment, Roberto Di Matteo this morning found himself in the familiar managerial ejector seat, jettisoned out of the club just hours after a humbling 3-0 defeat to Juventus in Turin that left the Blues with qualification to the last-16 of Europe’s premier club [...]
Precisely two months to the day since that unforgettable, unsurpassable night in Munich, Chelsea got their 2012-13 pre-season campaign off to a start in the early hours of this (British) morning in Seattle against the Sounders. The touring party had been in the city for a few days after flying out over the weekend and [...]
Turbulent, unpredictable and chaotic, Andre Villas-Boas’ eight-month reign at Stamford Bridge will go down in the history books as anything but uneventful. What started as something so promising, heralded as the beginning of a new era in SW6, ended with the eventual European Champions looking like a shadow of their actual selves; dishevelled, demoralised and [...]