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The Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti told today about how pig-ignorant Alex Ferguson was last season when Chelsea beat Man utd at Old Trafford on the way to winning the Premier League title.

“Our success at Old Trafford was the one that got us the League title, even though in the end Ray Wilkins and I were forced to drink to our victory alone,” said Ancelotti.

The Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti says that he would have had zero success last season if he hadn’t had Ray Wilkins around to act as his interpreter.

Ancelotti said: “One of the reasons I fit into the locker room was thanks to the fundamental role played by Ray Wilkins, my number two and my friend. It’s one thing to translate words – plenty of people can do that – but translating feelings is the gift of only a select few.

Chelsea have lost a very promising young player in Sam Hutchinson, as he announced his retirement from playing football after three years of injury worries. But Carlo Ancelotti has announced that Hutchinson can carry on working for Chelsea in a training capacity with the Chelsea academy, as he works towards his sports science degree.

“We are sad, disappointed about this, he decided to retire after very strong work to recover from his injury,” Ancelotti said.

The Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has announced that the Blues new signing Ramires will not make his debut until next weekends game against Stoke City.

“Ramires came back this morning, he will train today, and will not be involved tomorrow.” Ancelotti said yesterday.”Next week he will be ready to play against Stoke and he will be involved in the match.

The Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti is very aware that he lost his first game as Chelsea manager when they played at the DW stadium last season, but after getting revenge on the last day of the season (8-0!) he thinks that his team will be more aware of the dangers.

“I am sure it will be a different game tomorrow, the last game at Wigan we lost 3-1,” he said. “and for this reason I think we have to prepare well for this game, above all mentally.

The Italian wonderkid Mario Balotelli made his debut for Manchester City last night, and although he gave City the lead, he then gave Robero Mancini a scare by limping off at the final whistle and receiving treatment on the pitch.

But according to Mancini, it is not a worry for him: “We think it is not serious.” he said. “It was probably just a kick, but it is not a problem. He had a great debut and I think it is the first time he could show what he can do. I’m very happy that he scored.

The ex-Chelsea striker Joe Cole has had a rough start to his career at Anfield. He somehow managed to get sent off against Arsenal on his debut, and now he has missed a penalty in his second match.

But at least Liverpool have taken a slender lead in this Europa Cup Qualifier, but it is never easy to go away to Turkey and return with a result. Roy Hodgson was more upset about a last minte disallowed goal than the penalty miss.

The Chelsea and Brazil defender Alex believes that the arrival of his countryman Ramires from Benfica will mean a lot more goals will be coming from midfield this season.

“I was talking with Jose Bosingwa and we were saying how Ramires is a lot like Michael Essien,” said Alex yesterday.

In a very interesting season opener, new Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson was given a baptism of fire at home against Arsene Wengers young Arsenal team. Both of these teams are expected to be challenging Chelsea for homours this season.

It was a game of two sendings off, for Joe Cole and Arsenal new-boy Laurent Koscielny, and two goalkeeping errors. Manuel Almunia forgot to cover his near-post for Liverpool’s opener (through Ngog) just after the start of the second half, and Pepe Reina bundled the ball into his own net right at the end to give Arsenal a point.

The ex-Chelsea star and West Brom manager, Roberto Di Matteo did not have a happy return to Stamford Bridge, but he still managed to keep a smile on his face, despite watching his newly-promoted team get beaten 6-0.

“Playing the champions away for the first game of the season, you know it is going to be a tough game.” he said.

“There aren’t many teams who come away winners from Stamford Bridge.