‘I don’t think about myself, it’s not important’

On a day when rumours that Fabio Capello could become the next manager of Chelsea no matter what the result in this weekend’s Champions League final reached a crescendo in Milan, the current Italian incumbent at Stamford Bridge made sure he gave absolutely nothing away about his own future.

Roberto Di Matteo is in the uncomfortable position of knowing that even becoming the first manager in Chelsea’s history to win the European Cup may not be enough to earn him the job he craves so badly; especially now former England manager Capello, targeted by owner Roman Abramovich once before, is being heavily linked with the role by those in his own country.

So at a slightly uncomfortable Champions League final press conference at Cobham yesterday the Chelsea interim manager showed a straight bat to every question fired at him and barely managed a sentence of more than eight or nine words all afternoon.