Benítez confirmed as new Chelsea manager

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By Andrew Warshaw

November 21 – Chelsea wasted no time appointing a successor to luckless manager Roberto Di Matteo tonight when former Liverpool boss Rafael Benítez was given the job just a few hours after his predecessor was unceremoniously axed.

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Chelsea sack manager Di Matteo

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By Tom Degun

November 21 – Chelsea have sacked manger Roberto Di Matteo after his side suffered a 3-0 away defeat to Juventus in the UEFA Champions League to put them on the brink of elimination from the competition.

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Domenech brands French players “a bunch of imbeciles”

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By Andrew Warshaw

November 21 – Former French national coach Raymond Domenech, who had a much-publicised fallout with his squad, has launched a rare and astonishing attack on the players concerned, branding Franck Ribéry a “diva”, Samir Nasri a “symbol of selfishness” and accusing Nicolas Anelka of “killing” team spirit.

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David Owen: Two years on from World Cup bust-up, Goal payment signifies that FA and FIFA have kissed and made up

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Suddenly the 2018 World Cup bidding campaign seems a very long time ago.

At its conclusion in December 2010, relations between the world’s oldest Football Association – whose candidate, England, was among the losers – and FIFA, world football’s governing body, were at a low ebb.

Yet today finds Joseph Blatter, FIFA’s long-serving President, dropping in on St George’s Park, the FA’s new national football centre at Burton on Trent in the English Midlands.

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