Benitez sacked after Chelsea fail to make an immpression.

New Chelsea boss Rafa Benitez has been sacked by Roman Abramovich after his Chelsea side failed to secure a place in this weekend’s X Factor live shows.
A Chelsea statement read, “Chelsea football club would like to announce that manager Rafa Benitez has left with immediate effect, subsequent to his failure to meet the performance criteria set out in the mind of the Chairman.”
Benitez has claimed the sacking was unfair, and that given time he could have delivered a Christmas number one for the Blues.
A Chelsea insider told us, “Roman demands results, and with only a short amount of time before the Christmas single releases he felt it was time to make a change.”
“He would like to thank Rafa for all his hard work in unpacking some stuff into his office, and will ensure the boxes are returned to him later today.”

Benitez sacked

Fans of the club have claimed that such short-term thinking by the club’s owner will never see Chelsea do better than an occasional top 10 novelty single.
Season ticket holder Simon Williams told us, “Do you know how long the Beatles were managed by Brian Epstein before they made it big? It was more than 48 hours, I assure you.”
“It’s a shame, because with Lamps, Cole and Terry returning from injury, we have the makings of a pretty good band of bad boys.”

ABOVE: Chelsea boss Rafa Benitez

I couldn’t control my emotions – we’d just beaten our rivals in a big derby

West Ham boss Sam Allardyce

2nd December 2012

By Harry Pratt

NINE days into the job and Rafa Benitez must already fear the worst.

Or at the very least be bracing himself for one of those dreaded, unannounced visits to the Chelsea training ground by the club’s ruthless owner Roman Abramovich – with the firing squad just behind.

When the Russian billionaire pitches up at Cobham without warning, it usually spells trouble – just ask Roberto Di Matteo, Andre Villas-Boas and the rest of Benitez’s sacked Stamford Bridge predecessors.

Sure, the Blues interim boss Benitez, who only took over the reins a week last Thursday, can probably expect to be cut some slack – given he was very much Roman’s appointment.

But after this crushing derby defeat to West Ham – when his team collapsed and conceded three times in a shocking second half – it is safe to assume the Spaniard will be having more sleepless nights.