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Chainrai vows to safeguard Pompey

• Owner may use family trust fund to save club• Finding new owner remains preferred optionPortsmouth's owner, Balram Chainrai, has vowed to save the 112-year-old club and is prepared to use money from his family's trust fund to do so should a new buyer or fresh investment not be...

Mourinho questions whether Chelsea are a 'strong' team

• Internazionale manager says game is Europe's biggest• Portuguese celebrates eight years without a home defeatJosé Mourinho has claimed that Chelsea's clash with his Internazionale team at San Siro on Wednesday in the round of 16 of the Champions League is European club football's...

Wolverhampton 0-2 Chelsea

Chelsea were silent yesterday after fresh tabloid allegations about the private life of Ashley Cole posed the first test of the club's pledge to hand out the "severest disciplinary consequences" to any ­players tarnishing the club's reputation.Last Wednesday, following three weeks in which the...

Everton 3-1 Manchester United

It is a "schoolboy error" when a journalist allows a mobile phone to ring in David Moyes's company, but there was only one loaded question to ask when the roles were reversed and the Everton manager scrambled for the silent button on Saturday. "Was that Rooney?"Moyes dismissed the query as the joke...

England base is building site with just months to go

Fabio Capello flies into South Africa this morning with England's training camp for the World Cup finals in the small North West province town of Phokeng still resembling a building-site, little more than three months before the squad is due to arrive there.

Sam Wallace: All those who profit from our game share an obligation to end this taboo

In the autobiography of Paul Canoville, who suffered horrendous racial abuse as Chelsea's first black footballer, there is a remarkable subplot about one of the few people at the time who stood up and publicly condemned those at Stamford Bridge who abused him.

Cech ensures Ancelotti breathes a little easier

Never mind the moral high ground, which Carlo Ancelotti made clear last week when discussing his players' sleeping arrangements, is of little interest to him. The rarefied Premier League atmosphere four points above Manchester United is what Chelsea's manager is keener on occupying, so he was...

Suspension threat for Cole as Chelsea's anger grows

Ashley Cole will be fined and may even be suspended by Chelsea following the latest allegations concerning the England defender's private life.