Changing face of Chelsea

New season, new Chelsea. Jon Brodkin talks to five insiders about their amazing summer.
[guardian.co.uk]

Chelsea have been here before. Back in August 2000 there were pundits aplenty saluting the boys in blue. A month later the manager was sacked.
[guardian.co.uk]

Chelsea dominated the summer but their opponents this weekend are the real title contenders - if Houllier can abandon caution.
[independent.co.uk]

As the new Premiership season kicks off Paul Kelso investigates the scourge of world football. The agents.
[guardian.co.uk]

Police are releasing photographs of 10 England football fans they want to question about violent disturbances before and after a European Championship qualifying match in Liechtenstein.
[bbc.co.uk]

Jacques Villeneuve hopes a hot race at next weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix can help him turn around his flagging fortunes.
[bbc.co.uk]

Growing up in Canada, any fantasies attached to that label probably came with visions of a hockey puck flying into a net, not a golf ball rolling in the cup.
[azcentral.com]

Belgophobes are prone to assert that famous Belgians are notoriously hard to name, so the Belgian press was not about to let Kim Clijsters' elevation to the No 1 slot in the world of women's tennis pass unnoticed.
[guardian.co.uk]

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