Posted by Guardian 184 days ago
The Chelsea manager's difficult start puts one man's pedigree and another man's patience under scrutinyThose statistics trotted out in the aftermath of defeat to Liverpool made the current slump feel exceptional. Chelsea had never previously lost successive home league matches since Roman Abramovich purchased the club. Indeed, André Villas-Boas's team have already shed twice as many points as those surrendered in the first 12 games under Luiz Felipe Scolari, whose tenure set the benchmark for trauma, to contribute to their worst start in more than a decade. Yet the reality is that all this feels horribly familiar.Chelsea have been here before...
