Patrick Vieira calls it “upstairs”: the Manchester City operations room where Nike-sculpted executives and Sheikh Mansour and his entourage will decide whether to leave Roberto Mancini in the manager’s job. Those who say the FA Cup is dead may pause to reflect that City’s owner could yet make that call on the basis of whether [...]
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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Chelsea are to intensify their search for a manager to replace Carlo Ancelotti, with the club’s owner, Roman Abramovich, seriously considering the merits of Guus Hiddink and Porto’s André Villas Boas to replace the Italian at Stamford Bridge. Defeat by Manchester United on Sunday effectively ended Chelsea’s title defence, condemning the club to the third [...]
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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So now Carlo Ancelotti can fulfil his ambition to manage Roma, the club he captained for eight happy years and to which he has always said he would return one day. The end of his time at Chelsea surely arrived here, in the form of a defeat far more conclusive than the single-goal margin might [...]
Sunday, May 8, 2011
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The title is Manchester United’s in all but name. Arithmetic states that another point is required, away to Blackburn Rovers or at home to Blackpool, but the matter, in effect, was settled here. Chelsea, the reigning Premier League champions, were forced to confront their own inferiority at Old Trafford. The narrow score misrepresented the authority [...]
Sunday, May 8, 2011
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Sir Alex Ferguson believes it would constitute “an astonishing decision” if Chelsea chose to relieve Carlo Ancelotti of his duties at the end of the season, with the Italian set to discuss his future at Stamford Bridge in the week after the final round of Premier League fixtures. Ancelotti takes his side to Old Trafford [...]
Thursday, May 12, 2011
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