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December Matches Newcastle - Chelsea 2 - 1 (Mata) Not good, not good at all as we failed to win the Toons in their territory. Totally sloppy performance with Newcastle deserving the win as they bossed the whole game. Complacency... Champions League Group Stages Chelsea - Ajax 1 - 2...

November Premier League Table Our situation in the table looks promising. 8 Games behind, 6 wins and 2 draws and everything is going according to my plan. Boys are finally getting into my system and they are seeing that I am a capable manager afterall. Ive heard that the fans are already...

October News Reports have broken out about a possible fallout with Chelsea manager Arthur Gump and Daniel Sturridge as they were caught in a heated argument during their training session in the morning. We were able to get manager Arthur Gump to comment the situation: '' It was nothing...

September Aston Villa - Chelsea 1 - 1 (Cahill) Not the best of performances from the lads but at least we remained in control of things, it just wasnt meant to be a win for us today. Champions Leage Group Stages Chelsea - Dinamo 3 - 0 (Torres, Hazard, Terry) - Lampard missed a penalty My...

August FA Cup Community Shield Big day ahead of us and especially me. My first ''final'', first chance of silverware. But it wasnt going to be an easy task, beating the reigning champions of Premier League. This is it, the curtain raiser for the upcoming season... Man City - Chelsea 3 - 2...

Pre-season Thoughts Our Pre-season started out well with a 3 - 0 win over Chelsea reserves and considering the boys are learning my system, it was a great win. It was just the performance I wanted and expected from them. Our first proper friendly is against FC Twente away, which is going to...

Breaking news: Chelsea FC sack Roberto Di Matteo Chelsea have sacked their former player, Roberto Di Matteo, today with immediate effect. The news comes as big surprise as just months ago Di Matteo led Chelsea to an unbelievable Champions League title. Along with Di Matteo, his assistant...

Chapter VIII Back to business.... A holiday well spent. Its June 30th and I arrived home couple days ago. I spent 2 weeks at Valencia, Spain. During that time I visited the famous Mestalla stadium and even managed to get hold of Quique Flores. We talked a lot about football and most...

Chapter VII May 6th, Liberty Stadium, Swansea - Bolton.... Spectator: Swansea City continue their usual style of domination, having possession and moving the ball around, but still we havent seen a goal and clock shows 27 minutes. Now Vorm with the ball, kicks it out long, reaches Sinclair on...

Chapter VI May 1st, Liberty Stadium, Coach's office, monthly staff meeting at 1.00 PM Me: Sit down everyone. Me: Lets start with our performance in April. You're free to say what comes up to your mind. I hanged the list of our last month's games on the chalkboard and gave a copy of it to...

Chapter V March 19th, Home.. I've spent the last 2 days sleeping at home, suffering from my heavy drinking couple days back. I cant remember anything, but I got a phone call yesterday from Danny Graham, who stated that he had dropped me to my apartment as I had passed out. I also noticed the...

Chapter IV March 17th, Liberty Stadium, Dressing room at 2.50 PM.. Me: Alright boys! You know the drill, you know what to do. This game will be very tough, but play simple and safe. Shift the ball, dont try anything too fancy. We need only one goal, if we dont concede. Play extremely safe...

Chapter III March 4th, Molineux, Wolverhampton, 2.57 PM.. Me: Rangel offer support for Britton! Alan: Doesnt help anymore boss, its only 3 minutes left. Me: For ***** sake! Then referee blew the whistle. 2 - 0 loss to Wolves, those were important points. We're still 16th in the league, but...

Chapter II February 4th 2012, Liberty Stadium, 2.57 PM My first Premier league game as Manager. I was anxious, but I knew this wouldnt be easy match - Sunderland is always a tough challenge and they do have some serious players, yet I was confident that if my players stick to the game plan...

Chapter I January 28th 2012, Vicarage Road, Watford, 14.53 PM.. I walked behind my players in the tunnel towards the pitch. I felt a bit nervous, to say the least. My first game, how would it go.. I only wish the players would go out there and play their own game. We had trained passing...