• ‘Those who know me well know I am very angry and very sad’• Chelsea manager admits Champions League hopes hang by threadAntonio Conte has been deeply hurt by Chelsea’s disastrous title defence and admits a season fraught with difficulties has given him sleepless nights.Hopes that Stamford Bridge will host Champions League football next season hang by the slimmest of threads after last Sunday’s 3-1 defeat by fourth-placed Tottenham, which left Chelsea eight points behind their London rivals with seven games to play. It has given the rest of their league campaign a strange, almost agonising complexion with little but pride to play for and the...
