{"id":25,"date":"2011-05-23T13:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T13:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.footballkit.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2023-09-11T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:51:52","slug":"carlo-ancelotti-sacked-as-manager-of-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/carlo-ancelotti-sacked-as-manager-of-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Ancelotti Sacked As Manager Of Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s 3-year contract with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/chelsea-in-crisis-is-a-lack-of-stability-costing-abramovich\/\">Chelsea<\/a> has been cut short with immediate effect following their 1-0 loss to Everton on Sunday 22nd<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>May.<\/p>\n<p>His first year saw Chelsea win the English Premier League and the FA Cup which was the first time that any Chelsea Manager had achieved this accolade in the Club\u2019s history. He was also considered a favorite among players and fans alike.<\/p>\n<p>This year they finished 2nd to Manchester United in the Barclay&#8217;s Premiership and went out of the Champions League in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p>It was considered that Ancelotti was under pressure from owner Roman Abramovich, despite winning the Double in his debut season.<\/p>\n<p>PENDLE VERDICT \u2013 We think the sacking is harsh given his success last year and the fact that they finished 2nd this year. Problems seemed to begin after the sacking of Ray Wilkins. Wasn&#8217;t this what caused Chelsea\u2019s\u00a0poor run of form\u00a0and not Carlo Ancelotti?<\/p>\n<p>YOUR VERDICT \u2013 What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlo Ancelotti\u2019s 3-year contract with Chelsea has been cut short with immediate effect following their 1-0 loss to Everton on Sunday 22nd\u00a0May. His first year saw Chelsea win the English Premier League and the FA Cup which was the first time that any Chelsea Manager had achieved this accolade in the Club\u2019s history. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-football","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pendlesportswear.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}