Chelsea is about to welcome its seventh manager in eight seasons following the firing of Italian Carlo Ancelotti one year after he led the Blues to theleague and cup double.
Ancelotti got the news from Ron Gourlay, the Chelsea chief executive, on the stairwell leading from the field at Everton’sGoodison Park on Sunday. Writes Paul Hayward, “Ancelotti was fired like a junior accountant who had been caught fiddling the Christmas party fund and made totravel back to London like a pariah.”
Ancelotti’s days at Stamford Bridge had been numbered. Owner Roman Abramovich had first fired