Chelsea and jilted Wilkins agree ‘amicable’ settlement

CHELSEA have avoided a lengthy legal wrangle by agreeing compensation with Ray Wilkins less than three weeks after controversially axing him.

Wilkins and the club yesterday reached what both described as an “amicable” resolution over the 54-year-old’s abrupt departure from Stamford Bridge last month.

The former Blues captain had called in the lawyers after branding the decision to dispense with him as assistant manager an “undoubtedly unfair dismissal”.