In a quiet time, Roberto Mancini might admit that the issues this season at Chelsea Football Club may turn out to be his saving grace. City's disappointments in this aborted protection of the Premier League title have now been several. The Sky Blues didn't survive class play in the Champions League for the second-consecutive season. They whiffed on Robin van Persie during the summer shift window, simply to see him go on to cause Manchester United from what appears like a walk to the group title. There have been other less splashy difficulties. Samir Nasri has underperformed to the stage that City seems prepared to sell him for whatever they will get (per the Express). Edin Dzeko brings the group in goals, so obviously he really wants to leave (per the Mirror). Despite all of it, City may say one thing: compared to the sketchy doings at Chelsea, the situation at the Etihad is cozier than one of Mancini's dapper scarves. Andres Villas-Boas began the 2011-2012 campaign at the reins at Stamford Bridge. He fought mightily and was deposedAin favor of Roberto Di MatteoAon an "interim" base in March of 2012. When Di Matteo took over, Chelsea's position in the Premier League desk was so tenuous that the club's only realistic path to qualify for Champions League play in 2010 was to win last year's Champions League concept, whichAthey did. That unlikely wonder convinced Chelsea owner RomanAAbramovichAto just take the "interim" draw off Di Matteo. Finally, though,AAbramovich and votes of confidence can never are now living in harmony. Everyone else Abramovich uses to handle Chelsea is keeping the seat warm, very quickly, for somebody else. Di Matteo wasArelieved of his dutiesAearlier this year in favor of Rafa Benitez, a man who brought with him to the Bridge a car full of baggage (given his previous antagonism of Blues fans). How has it gone for Rafa? Let's hear what he's to express. Benitez recently toldABBC Radio 5 Live (h/t Goal ): "They [Chelsea] gave me the title of interim manager. Which was a huge mistake. Why did they need to do that?" After a 2-0 make an impression on Middlesbrough in the sixth round of the FA Cup, Benitez responded to taunts he heard from traveling Chelsea supporters with this particular beauty:A"They do not have to worry about me - I leave at the end of the season." That was following a gain. The uncertainty at Chelsea is further proof that the new man always may seem like advisable from the owner's field or the stands. But amazing changes such as the one Di Matteo orchestrated at Stamford Bridge this past year are the decided exception to the concept. Far more often, rash, in-season managerial changes just result in more time spent in transition and more mediocre (or worse) effects. Even yet in a down season, City has the inside track for second invest the league and a substantial chance to recover the FA Cup. Area supporters should really be grateful that the club's title has enough faith in Mancini to allow the (for now) defending Premier League champion director to steadfastly keep up a hand on the controls. As it has had some special type of insanity from Chelsea's management to operate their period therefore comprehensively in to the soil.
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