Having controversially sacked manager Andre Villas-Boas, Chelsea Football Club go into tonight’s tricky FA Cup replay clash against Birmingham in a state of some chaos. Ex-Chelsea midfielder Roberto Di Matteo has been appointed interim manager until the end of the season but all the talk is of who will replace Villas-Boas as next permanent manager. Lots of big names are being bandied about but the question many sports writers is asking is whether any self-respecting top-level manager will actually want to accept the job, given the reported level of dressing room disquiet and owner Roman Abramovich’s increasingly poor reputation in the game.
Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, who enjoyed a hugely successful spell as Chelsea boss remains the club fan’s firm favourite but newspapers are today also heavily linking the club with moves for Barcelona’s Pep Guardiola and Germany manager Joachim Loew. Meanwhile frontrunner Rafael Benitez has declared his interest in taking the reigns at Stamford Bridge.

The Tottenham Hotspur manager, Harry Redknapp, says the vacant Chelsea manager's position would be a "dream job" for anyone to take on, but he insists is not the right man to succeed André Villas-Boas.

Villas-Boas's eight-month tenure as manager came to an end on Sunday after he paid the price for a poor run of form in which Chelsea dropped out of the top four in the Premier League and suffered a blow to their Champions League hopes by losing 3-1 in the first leg of their last-16 tie at Napoli.
Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho and Rafael Benítez are among the bookmakers' favourites to succeed the 34-year-old Portuguese, but Redknapp's name has also been linked with the position.
Redknapp, who is the overwhelming favourite to become the next England manager, admits the wealth on offer to the incoming boss makes the post at Stamford Bridge an attractive position, but he says he will not take up the role.
"It would be difficult. I wouldn't be able to come back to north London," he said, with a smile. "So no, I will pass on that one."

Earlier on Tuesday the Swansea manager, Brendan Rodgers, said he would not risk "destroying" his career by taking the Chelsea job if he was offered it.

"The transition that is needed at the club is very much evident, and it's a job that requires sensitivity about where the club is at," Rodgers said. "It's about understanding and respecting what the players have done there and also having that ruthless streak to manage the club.
"If any of our fans are wondering about me and Chelsea, they need not panic. I am trying to build my career and not destroy it."

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Slim Beats Gates in First Daily Billionaire Ranking

Carlos Slim, the telecommunications tycoon who controls Mexico's America Movil SAB (AMXL), is the richest person on Earth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world's 20 wealthiest individuals.
The 72-year-old's net worth fell $478.4 million in a day to $68.5 billion as of the close of markets on March 2, as U.S. moguls Bill Gates and Warren Buffett placed second and third on the list compiled by Bloomberg News. Brazil's Eike Batista, who ranks 10th, still covets the top spot after vowing a year ago that he'd become the world's wealthiest man by 2015.
"I'm competitive," Batista, who trails Slim by almost $39 billion, said in a March 2 telephone interview from Rio de Janeiro. "It's Brazil's time to be No. 1. Brazilians have always admired the American dream. What's happening in Brazil is the Brazilian dream and I happen to be the example."
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index takes measure of the world's wealthiest people based on market and economic changes and Bloomberg News reporting. Each net worth figure is updated every business day at 5:30 p.m. in New York. The valuations are listed in U.S. dollars.
Today's ranking was published with the release of new billionaires profile pages in the Bloomberg Professional service. The profiles feature a transparent analysis of how each billionaire's fortune was calculated.
Slim's fortune has increased 11 percent this year, according to the index. A spokesman for Slim didn't immediately return a telephone request for comment.
Gates, Buffett
Gates, 56, co-founder of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in Redmond, Washington, is worth $62.4 billion, down $102.1 million on March 2 and up 11 percent year to date.
The fortune of Buffett, 81, chairman of Omaha, Nebraska- based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/B), declined $336.9 million to $43.8 billion on March 2 and is up 2.4 percent in 2012. Almost all of Buffett's wealth is held in Berkshire Hathaway, the publicly traded holding company he has run since 1965.
The combined net worth of the 20 richest people is $676.8 billion. Nine are Americans, including three from the family of Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT)
Number seven is Larry Ellison, 67, chief executive officer of Redwood City, California-based Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world's third-largest software maker after Microsoft and SAP AG. (SAP) His $38 billion fortune puts him $4 billion ahead of brothers Charles and David Koch, who each own 42 percent of Koch Industries Inc., one of the biggest closely held companies in the world by revenue. Charles, 76, and David, 71, control the Wichita, Kansas, refiner and chemical maker.
Batista, 55, whose investments range from iron ore to coal, is worth $29.8 billion, up $133.9 million on March 2. His fortune has grown 32 percent this year, the most on the list.
The House Wins
Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who owns 47 percent of Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS), which operates resorts in Macau and Las Vegas, is number 13 with $25.7 billion. Adelson, 78, and his family have pledged at least $10 million to a super-PAC supporting Newt Gingrich, a Republican presidential candidate.
Liliane Bettencourt, 89, who with her family owns 31 percent of Paris-based cosmetics company L'Oreal SA (OR), is last on the ranking. Bettencourt was the subject of an international scandal in 2007 when her daughter, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, filed a lawsuit accusing a family friend, photographer Francois- Marie Banier, of exploiting her mother's frail state. Evidence later revealed Bettencourt had granted more than $1 billion in cash and gifts to Banier. In October, Meyers and two grandsons became guardians of the clan's $22.4 billion fortune.
Diluting Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg, the 27-year-old founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), the world's largest social-networking company, didn't make the cut. Based on a roughly $100 billion valuation the Menlo Park, California-based company has been trading at in the private market, Zuckerberg's stake may be worth $21 billion, or about 25 percent less than previous estimates, once Facebook holds its initial public offering.
The reason: Facebook will issue more than 500 million shares of its Class B stock at the offering, diluting Zuckerberg's ownership to 21 percent after he exercises 120 million options and sells about 42 million shares to cover the tax bill associated with the gain from those options.
Sweden's Ingvar Kamprad is the richest European, according to the index, ranking fourth globally with a $42.5 billion net worth. Kamprad, 85, controls Ikea Group, the world's largest furniture retailer, through a series of trusts and foundations he asserts he doesn't own.
Luxury Goods
Bernard Arnault, the chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA (MC) , places fifth. The majority of Arnault's $42.3 billion comes from his stake in Paris-based LVMH, the world's largest maker of luxury goods. Arnault, 63, controls about 46 percent of LVMH's outstanding stock through his family group, according to the company's latest annual report.
Amancio Ortega, whose publicly traded Inditex SA (ITX) owns the Zara clothing chain, is Spain's wealthiest individual and sixth in the world with a $38.8 billion fortune. Ortega, 75, has invested dividends from Arteixo-based Inditex into a real estate portfolio that owns office and retail properties in the U.S. and Europe.
No Russians appear in the index as falling metals prices hurt the fortunes of many of the richest oligarchs. Alisher Usmanov, 58, the Muscovite who controls the Metalloinvest metals and mining company and Digital Sky Technologies, which currently owns 5.5 percent of Facebook, is Russia's wealthiest person thanks to a $20.1 billion fortune.
Asia's Wealthiest
Mukesh Ambani, 54, leads Asians with a net worth of $26.8 billion, down $185.4 million in a day. His fortune is up 25 percent this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as his shares in India's top company by market value, Mumbai-based Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), have risen 17 percent.
Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, nicknamed "Superman" by the local media for his investing prowess, ranks second in the region, with $25.8 billion. Li, 83, owns large stakes in Hong Kong-based property developer Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd. (1), Hong Kong shipping and ports operator Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (13) and Husky Energy Inc. (HSE), the Calgary-based energy company.
Lakshmi Mittal, the India-born chairman of ArcelorMittal (MT), the world's biggest steelmaker, is the third-richest Asian, with holdings valued at $23.6 billion. In addition to his ArcelorMittal stake, the 61-year-old London resident owns hundreds of millions of dollars in U.K. real estate.
On the rise: Gina Rinehart, the Australian mining heiress who is worth $20.4 billion. Rinehart, 58, the daughter of the man who discovered the mines that made Australia the world's biggest iron ore exporter, inherited perpetual royalty rights to some of Rio Tinto Ltd. (RIO)'s Hamersley mines in addition to other thermal and iron-ore deposits throughout the country.
Soaring demand for coal and iron ore from China have made Rinehart's assets attractive to acquisitive industrial companies. In separate deals in the past year, steelmakers Posco and GVK Power & Infrasture Ltd. (GVKP) agreed to pay a combined $2.9 billion for pieces of Rinehart's empire.

Chelsea FC Sack Manager Andre Villas-Boas

Andre Villas-Boas has parted company with Chelsea Football Club today.
The board would like to record our gratitude for his work and express our disappointment that the relationship has ended so early.
Unfortunately the results and performances of the team have not been good enough and were showing no signs of improving at a key time in the season.
The club is still competing in the latter stages of the Uefa Champions League and the FA Cup, as well as challenging for a top-four spot in the Premier League, and we aim to remain as competitive as possible on all fronts.
With that in mind we felt our only option was to make a change at this time.

With immediate effect Roberto Di Matteo has been appointed first team coach on an interim basis until the end of the season.

Gary Speed memorial match: Wales 0 Costa Rica 1

WELSH footballs tribute to Gary  Speed was impeccably staged  at the Cardiff City stadium last  night but visiting opponents  Costa Rica paid the former national team  manager the ultimate compliment by delivering a thoroughly professional display  to secure a well-deserved victory.  
On a difficult and emotional night for  the Welsh players on show, few of them  enhanced their reputations in a generally  lack-lustre performance that simply magnified the fact that with only a handful of  star names missing the depth of talent  available to incoming Chris Coleman is extremely limited.  
Wales went into the game without  Gareth Bale, Wayne Hennessey and regular  skipper Aaron Ramsey, who nevertheless  led the teams out alongside stand-in captain Craig Bellamy and Speeds two sons,  Ed and Tommy.  
And a near to capacity crowd could not  wait for the pre-match formalities to be  over, launching into a spontaneous and  prolonged round of applause for the  much-missed former manager without  waiting for referee Howard Webbs  whistle.  

When the match got under way, it was  the home side that created the first opening, Bellamy cutting inside to pick out  David Vaughan who was unable to keep  his effort from 20 yards on target and  Costa Rica showed their opponents how it  should be done with their first direct  threat two minutes later.  
Fulhams Bryan Ruiz made the goal with  a slide-rule pass into the feet of Joel  Campbell, who must have been surprised  by the lack of a challenge as he picked his  spot beyond third choice goalkeeper Lewis  Price.  
Encouraged by their start, the visitors  enjoyed a good spell with plenty of possession and they worked hard to close  down the space when Wales, chiefly  through Vaughan, tried to put together a  sustained spell of play.  
But the home defence had yet to settle  and Campbell might have doubled his tally  in the 18th minute when he sped past  Darcy Blake and stung Prices fingers with  a vicious shot.  And it was only during the later stages of  the opening period that the home side  began to put their attacking game together, Chris Gunter overlapping in the  29th minute to test keeper Taylor Navas  for the first time.  
A couple of Welsh corners followed,  Steve Morison failing on both occasions to  keep his headers on target, but the Norwich striker was desperately unlucky not  to equalise four minutes before the break  when from another Vaughan flag kick, his  effort rebounded down from the crossbar  but failed to cross the goal-line.  And on the stroke of half-time, the  visitors defence failed to deal with another corner, the ball falling for Ashley  Williams who leaned back in connecting  and cleared the bar by some distance.  
Wales were almost caught napping from  the restart, an over-hit pass by Randall  Azofeifa forcing Price to save low down to  his right at the expense of a corner, but  they should have been back on level terms  in the 50th minute when Bellamy seized  on a defensive error, only to lash the ball  too high from 15 yards.  
The Central American side, though 21  places lower than their hosts in the Fifa  ranking, did their best to take the sting out  of the contest by playing keep-ball, much  to the frustration of their opponents and  the crowd, but they werent completely  toothless as Bryan Oviedo showed with a  long-range effort that had Price scrambling to cover his far post.  
The first Wales change on 63 minutes  saw Jack Collison replace a disappointing  Joe Allen only seconds before Hal Robson-Kanu brought a decent save from  Navas and the West Ham United replacement was followed in short order by Sam  Vokes, and veteran duo Joe Ledley and  Danny Gabbidon.  
The wholesale changes did little for the  pace of the game, which was rapidly becoming something of an exhibition from  the visitors point of view and had it not  been for the fact that the supporters, who  periodically saluted Speeds memory, were  prepared to forgive a tepid Welsh performance the home side might have  suffered a backlash  Goal-scorer Campbell went close to rubbing salt in the wound when he pushed  forward for a shot that struck a post in the  78th minute, but the home side were  unable to find a meaningful response until  the closing stages when substitute Joe  Ledley hit the upright from a free kick and,  though the ball was poked over the line by  Robert Earnshaw, the Cardiff striker was  flagged offside.

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James Iroha ( A.K.A  Gringory Of New Masquerade) Dies At Age 70
Popular actor from the 80s tv show, The New Masquerade, James Iroha passed on today at the age of 70. There is no word on how he passed but Segun Arinze, the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria made the announcement today.
Not long ago, he was in the news after granting an interview to the Saturday Sun.
May his soul rest in peace.