MOURINHO. Martin Atkinson. Tottenham away. In January. Bring it all on, football; do your worst.

Four hundred friends packed into St Agatha's Church, Kingston in London today for the funeral service of Trizia Fiorellino, who wrote on all matters Chelsea for this newspaper.

Trizia Fiorellino, Chelsea fan correspondent for the Irish Examiner since 2004, has died in a London hospital after a short illness.

Costa welcomed back with open arms at Stamford Bridge, but have the club leaks been plugged?

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Getting in behind the Premier League weekend.

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As John Terry confirmed a contract extension for another season, the Chelsea Pitch Owners hosted an evening with the Blues captain. Chelsea fan Trizia Fiorellino was there.

Is it any wonder that Jose is getting increasingly paranoid, writes Trizia Fiorellino.

So the game didn’t live up to the hype — but then it never really was going to, writes Trizia Fiorellino.

Manager’s rotation game backfiring badly

The science of United ticket-touting is complex and challenging. When Michael O’Leary finally quits his airline, the company could do worse than pluck a successor from the Warwick Road broking fraternity, so expert are they at judging dynamic advance seat pricing.

It’s funny how things change, isn’t it? Ashley Cole was initially one of our most unpopular signings ever when he arrived from the Marble Halls of Mordor as part of the William Gallas deal in 2008.

Emotions in red zone before ball kicked

Former Chelsea defender Ron ’Chopper’ Harris has questioned the timing of Alex Ferguson’s public revelation that he was approached to manage the Blues.

Rafael Benitez can expect to be subjected to yet more abuse if Chelsea do not perform well in their next home game against Southampton, a Blues supporters group warned today.

An apology from Rafael Benitez for his comments about Chelsea fans would go some way to healing the rift between them, according to the chair of the Chelsea Supporters’ Group.

Chelsea face a backlash from their own supporters after they named former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez as the interim successor to sacked Roberto Di Matteo.

Roman Abramovich could face a fan backlash tonight if he makes Rafael Benitez his ninth manager at Chelsea.

WE won comfortably on Saturday against Wolves, kept a clean sheet and scored three goals that were more than a little pleasing to the eye.

WE won comfortably on Saturday against Wolves, kept a clean sheet and scored three goals that were more than a little pleasing to the eye.

IF ever there was a game that was not reflected by the final score, then our clash with United was it.

I THINK we saw a glimpse of the new order at Chelsea in the final stages of the game on Saturday.

SO we finally have a new manager, and I can’t imagine that many predicted the name André Villas-Boas when Carlo Ancelotti was given the elbow.

LAST Wednesday was one of those special Stamford Bridge nights. The Liverpool fans were virtually silent throughout — they knew what was coming and it seemed that the Chelsea crowd knew too as we roared the team to Moscow.

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I FEEL I must respond to comments made in Trizia Fiorellino’s article on Chelsea in Arena recently.