Chelsea 2 Galatasaray 0 (Chelsea win 3-1 on aggregate)

Chelsea supporters, whose views have been at best marginalised and at worst totally ignored in the decade since Roman Abramovich arrived in London, are celebrating being heard at last after Rafa Benitez gave the strongest hint yet that he will handing over to Jose Mourinho when his contract ends in June.

Claudio Ranieri’s multi-million pound Chelsea squad have been warned to expect a “bog” of a pitch when they take on Watford at Vicarage Road in the FA Cup third round this weekend.

Homeless Fulham expect to be briefed in the next week about a new plan enabling them to return to Craven Cottage for just £1m (€1.4m).