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Jose Mourinho, who has had two stints with Chelsea, is currently refreshing his reputation at AS Roma.
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LONDON – Chaos is Chelsea’s natural state. It has almost always been so.
Older readers may recall Ken Bates’ regime of the 1980s, and his mid-1990s boardroom turf war with Matthew Harding. Even the Mears family who formed the club in 1905 ended up leaving it in an almighty state in the 1970s, as the club became a byword for faded glamour.
