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Chelsea has resembled a Funny Farm for quite a few years now.

Only this season it admitted a new species of inmate.

A noisy, malevolent group of their own fans.

Comrade Abramovich made a dreadful mistake when he decided to publicly humiliate Rafa Benitez by branding him “Interim” manager after appointing him last year. That one word was the trigger that has caused dressing-room rebellion and fans unrest.

Once a group of particularly feeble-minded supporters realised that the former Liverpool boss had only the partial backing of the owner they decided he was fair game for their nasty campaign to ...

The PDC Premier League finds itself in Aberdeen for week 2. Nothing is more romantic than 10 blokes in nylon playing darts in front of a drunken crowd in the Granite City on Valentine's day.

Week 2 features the following match ups:

Wes Newton v Raymond van Barneveld
Andy Hamilton v James Wade
Gary Anderson v Simon Whitlock
Adrian Lewis v Phil Taylor
Robert Thornton v Michael van Gerwen

This week’s “what are the odds?” question is what odds would Bodugi give me for the commentators to mention the phrase “Valentine’s Day Massacre” more than 3.5 ...

The PDC’s Premier League returns once again for a marathon run of 15 weeks all the way up until mid May.

This is the 9th Premier League since its inception in 2003 will see the cream of the PDC pack arenas up and down the UK and Ireland.

This the PDC’s most “PDC” event of all – huge auditoriums filled with boozed up fans who come for the darts but watch pretty much everything but. I’d love to know what odds Bodugi would give for a Sky showing a televised scrap between Bananaman and Mighty Mouse (£10 on ...

“We’re all going to wake up one morning to hear that Paul Gascoigne has been found floating face-down in the River Tyne”.

That’s what a working colleague of the tragic Geordie footballer told me when we were on a job in Newcastle ten years ago.

Gazza wasn’t TOO bad then and those that heard this prophecy were shocked. After all he was still playing Football –barely – somewhere in the Far East. The problem was that even from as far away as there the stories were filtering back about him carrying bottles of whisky around in his kit ...

The FA have done a major service to football world-wide in their bold decision to back Vincent Kompany’s controversial tackle on Jack Wilshere.

By deciding that the challenge from the Manchester City captain on Arsenal’s England star was hard but fair they have taken football back from a precipice. The game was about to fall off a cliff – the cliff of man-to-man contact – which would have led to a slow decline in the basic physical nature of the game that may never have been reversed.

There has been a trend over the last decade to eradicate the level ...

PDC Darts star Michael van Gerwen was at The Porters Lodge in London on Monday night to officially announce his sponsorship with Bodugi.com - and was joined by personalities from the world of Horse Racing to help raise funds for the Injured Jockeys Fund and the Darts charity 'Heart of Darts'.

Racing personalities such as Channel 4 presenters Nick Luck and Tanya Stevenson, along with National Hunt Jockeys including Richie Killoran, Sam Jones, and AP Cawley were pitted against the PDC World Championship finalist. Each of their scores were converted to cash to be donated to the I.J.F ...

The FA Cup included Premier League teams in the pot for the first time this season and has pulled together some enthralling all Premier League ties, on top of these we have an exciting start to the footballing weekend with out of form Newcastle travelling to Brighton sees both sides sitting at 7/4 market best. It’s proving near impossible to call and now without Demba Ba and off the back of a 2-1 home defeat in the league to Everton, coupled with Brighton having convincingly scored 3 away goals and conceding nil in their last league match! After ...

Chris Murphy of Modus Darts writes...

MICHAEL VAN GERWEN 3 - 0 PAUL LIM

Michael van Gerwen last night began his campaign to be crowned World Champion in 2013 with a comfortable victory over darts legend Paul Lim.

The reigning World Grand Prix champion produced a solid display to move comfortably into round two after defeating the ‘Singapore Slinger’, a historic figure in the game.

Lim, the first man ever to produce nine-dart finish in the World Championships, provided a moment of magic with a brilliant 170 checkout.

But van Gerwen, the second favourite for the £1 million tournament, never really ...

If I was running Manchester United I would be on the first plane to Madrid today to wave a contract of employment in Jose Mourinho’s face.

There is one slight problem of course and that is that there is no current vacancy for a team boss at Old Trafford. But United should deal with that right now in order to make sure that they enlist the best current manager in the world to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson.

Fergie should be involved in talks to recruit Mourinho in order to keep the successful continuity of the legend that Manchester United ...

Leeds host Chelsea at Elland Road tonight. Chelsea will most likely be playing a full strength side in the competition as they did in the last round and in all honesty their fire power should be far too strong for Leeds’ defence. With the likes of Eden Hazard, Juan Mata and Fernando Torres comparing to Luciano Becchio, El-Hadj Diouf and Ross McCormack, you can’t really look anything beyond a Chelsea victory.

Throughout the competition, the Blues have been playing strong starting XI’s and being the only remaining ‘big’ side in the competition, they won’t want to let ...