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Manchester City 4-3 Chelsea: Kidd's men thrill 48,000 St Louis sell-out by fighting back from three goals down Micah Richards' last-minute goal wins first of Premier League duo's US double-header - a match Londoners lead 3-0 despite being completely outplayed How'd you like them apples? Richards won a chance-filled match that must have made ... (more)

IT is fitting that TV programme 'Made In Chelsea' portrays life where you don't really know what is true and what is not.

Dragons boss is well equipped to follow the Premier League trail blazed by fellow Portuguese Mourinho and Villas-Boas, writes Vasco Mota Pereira, contributor to PortuGOAL Many in Portugal believe that virtually anyone who sits in FC Porto's dugout will achieve success.

Premier Soccer Sunday: Highlights and analysis of all the action in the Premier League from 8pm on Sunday 19 May on RT Two.

Rio de Janeiro, May 16 : Ronaldinho has refused to concede his 2014 World Cup dream and vowed to convince coach Luiz Felipe Scolari he is worthy of a recall to Brazil's national team.

It wasn't substitutions from Rafa Benitez that won the game for Chelsea - it was Benfica's substitutions giving the tireless Ramires space.

The wife of Chelsea midfielder Ramires has criticised the Brazilian football federation for omitting her husband from the squad for the forthcoming Confederations Cup tournament.

A year from now, Rafa Benitez can look forward to his unveiling at Santiago Bernabeu as the replacement for Carlo Ancelotti.

Ramires's persistence and energy won the injury-time corner from which Chelsea scored the winner against Benfica.

It is business as usual for Chelsea at this time of the year: from the chaos of mid-season comes the trophy-hunting of May as the most dysfunctional club with a winning habit find themselves on the brink of the 11th trophy of the last 10 years.

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Chelsea winger Eden Hazard will miss Wednesday's Europa League final against Benfica with a hamstring strain while John Terry's ankle problem is still being assessed, interim manager Rafa Benitez said.

Chelsea star Ramires has revealed that he has a "tremendous amount of affection" for former club Benfica ahead of their Europa League final meeting on Wednesday.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari also overlooked Alexandre Pato and Chelsea's Ramires for the World Cup warm-up tournament that Brazil will host.

Sir Bradley Wiggins, it's safe to say, isn't enjoying much luck or success in this year's Giro d'Italia. Tottenham Hotspur have been linked with a bid for Nicolas Lombaerts, voted the 'best foreign player in the Russian championship' last season.

Heading into the week Chelsea compete in the Europa League final, the Blues also confirmed their Champions League place for next season - barring a cataclysmic defeat to Everton and Gareth Bale doubling his goal tally for the season against Sunderland.

Chelsea's Juan Mata has vowed he will volunteer for a Europa League Final shoot-out penalty - despite missing in Munich last year when the Blues won the European Cup on spot-kicks. Spanish midfielder Mata was initially left crestfallen when he missed the Londoners' first effort of the ultimate test of nerve against Bayern Munich in their own ... (more)

Benfica coach Jorge Jesus is hell bent on ending a European drought which has encompassed six losing finals stretching back to the 1960's as the Eagles take on Chelsea in Wednesday's Europa League final in Amsterdam.

FC Porto teen sensation 'Kelvin' revealed his love for Chelsea this week; after condemning their Amsterdam opponents Benfica to a first league defeat of the season.

IT was a weekend of high emotions in the northwest, as Wigan won the FA Cup to leave Manchester City distraught, and probably managerless, while Alex Ferguson said farewell to Old Trafford on Sunday, and his replacement David Moyes waved goodbye to Goodison Park.