The Champions League final is still fresh in the memory but less than a month after Liverpool's dramatic triumph on 25 May the new football season is about to start.
Premier League: Chelsea 6 - 1 Derby County
Match reports
The Guardian, Dominic Fifield: "Chelsea found respite in a rout last night. The traumas endured in their FA Cup humiliation at Barnsley were exorcised in part against a hapless Derby County, with Frank Lampard, so conspicuous by his absence...
Scolari sacked
Poll: Who do you want to see installed as Chelsea manager?
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Luiz Felipe Scolari has been dismissed as manager with immediate effect.
A statement on the official club website reads:
The Chelsea board would like to place on record our gratitude for his...
Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur 4 - 4 Chelsea
Match reports
The Times: "How Chelsea must hate Tottenham Hotspur. Beaten by them in the Carling Cup final at Wembley last month, it was the North London side who again thwarted their ambitions, this time in the Barclays Premier League and...
Roman's hunt for The Apprentice continues...
In a parallel universe not far from here, the nation will tune into ‘The Apprentice’ tomorrow night and see Roman Abramovich setting the five remaining future C-listers the task of appointing a new manager for Chelsea FC.
“I said to this...
Premier League: Sunderland 0 - 1 Chelsea
Match reports
The Observer, Paul Wilson: "This was not the most impressive display from Chelsea - it was a hard-fought win on a bitterly cold afternoon in the north east - but you cannot play Derby every week and you get...