Outgoing interim manager Rafael Benitez may have led Chelsea to Europa League glory and a top-three finish in the Premier League this season - but suggestions the Spaniard has had a successful reign at Stamford Bridge are wide of the mark.

Paolo di Canio has emerged as the favourite to succeed the sacked Brian McDermott at Reading, with just nine games left for the club to stave off rele...

A lot is said about the much publicized circus, that Chelsea seems to have become. Negative press has become as regular as Ashley Cole's one night stands. This severe fall from grace would have been unthinkable back in May when Didier Drogba and the bus that was parked behind him won the most treasured prize in European Football, the Champions League.

Sir Alex Ferguson has questioned Chelsea's contrition after Mark Clattenburg was cleared of racially abusing John Obi Mikel and the bullish Manchester...

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Roberto di Matteo was the eighth manager to depart Chelsea in the Roman Abramovich era and the seventh to be sacked. Only Guus Hiddink, who, like Rafa...

Boudewijn Zenden has rejoined Chelsea as the club's assistant manager to new interim coach Rafael Benítez. The Dutchman, who spent three years wit...

Roberto di Matteo's Wednesday morning sacking by Chelsea came without confirmation So And So would take charge of the weekend's Premier League fixture...

Rafael Benítez has been confirmed as Chelsea's new interim manager after Roberto di Matteo was sacked on Wednesday morning. The Spaniard has signe...

Rafael Benítez is flying into London from Abu Dhabi to hold talks about replacing Roberto di Matteo as the new Chelsea manager. Benítez rejected ...

Chelsea's decision to sack Roberto Di Matteo is callous but their decision to appoint him was rash. Since the start of this season his position has been fragile, he always looked like an interim manager and it never felt conclusive that he'd taken the role on a full-time basis.

As the chant promised, Roberto di Matteo has been sacked in the morning and Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich must now decide who will become the ninth m...

Fernando Torres is to Chelsea managers what oranges are to victims in The Godfather films. The presence of the fruit throughout the trilogy indicates ...

Roberto di Matteo has been sacked as Chelsea manager less than 24 hours after their Champions League defeat to Juventus. Twenty-six weeks and four ...

Roberto di Matteo's future at Chelsea is in jeopardy after the Blues were trounced 3-0 by Juventus on Tuesday night, leaving them on the brink of elim...

It is wholly evident to the rest of the football community that Chelsea is a football team plagued by indiscipline.

Roberto di Matteo today faces the press in what could be the first day of the longest week of the Chelsea manager's life. The Blues tomorrow face Ital...

The Premier League was bereft of anything distasteful on a weekend in which Manchester United ascended to the top for the first time, André Villas-Bo...

Chelsea manager Roberto di Matteo has said football needs to combat racism "a little bit stronger than we thought" after the club reported Mark Clatte...

John Terry's contrition and decision not to appeal the four-match ban for his racist outburst against Anton Ferdinand has been welcomed by everyone wi...

There's no doubt that the influx of players from the continent and beyond, some of whom have been mediocre at best, has had an impact on the development of British players. However, it's pleasing to see that when it comes to Premiership managers, there's a healthy proportion of British managers plying their trade and competing with the suave sophistication we associate with the likes of AVB, Laudrup, Di Matteo and their continental peers.

Chelsea have confirmed they have appointed Roberto Di Matteo as their permanent manager and first-team coach on a two-year contract....

Roberto di Matteo is set to be appointed the full-time manager of Champions League winners Chelsea this week. The Italian took over the managerial ...

Chelsea's triumph in winning their first ever European Cup has dismayed many. "Anti-football" they call it. Because Di Matteo's Blues are reticent and negative, and appeared determined to resemble Steaua Bucharest versus Barcelona in 1986 or Red Star Belgrade against Marseille in 1991, they were not ostensibly worthy winners.