Antonio Conte stages first passion play at Chelsea unveiling

If there was one word Antonio Conte used most in his first Chelsea press conference it was ‘passion’; and that is significant after a year in which so many of his squad were accused of failing to perform for Jose Mourinho.

The Special One was sacked and his team finished an unforgivable and unimaginable 10th in the Premier League.

And Mourinho’s antics last year — not least the never-ending controversy over his boorish treatment of physio Eva Carneiro — played a major part in the downfall of a team which won the title in 2015 and then collapsed in spectacular style 12 months later.