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Today's teaser... Chelsea have lost all five of their penalty shootouts under Jose Mourinho, which five teams have beaten them?

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This scathing piece (subscription required), external digs deeper into the current situation at Chelsea and doesn't take any prisoners...

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With Chelsea having lost all five of their penalty shootouts under Jose Mourinho's management, we want you to tell us...

What is your team's historic Achilles heel?

Oli Cusworth: Massimo Cellino.

Daniel Hyde: Sheffield United's Achilles heel: League 1.  

Craig Spittle: As a Forest fan it's Walsall. And our owner. Oh and the oppressive burden of history on our shoulders.  

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For how much longer will Jose Mourinho be Chelsea’s manager?

Our vote is now open and you can have your say. On desktops, the vote is just to the right of the page. On mobiles, you can access if via the tab at the top.

Until recently, the only thing Wallsend Boys’ Club could take from seeing former junior player Fraser Forster turn out in the Premier League and for England is pride. However, thanks to John Devine, partner and head of sport at law firm Muckle LLP, they now have some money to show for their efforts in helping Forster on the way to stardom.

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Devine has spent a year working to secure funds each club is entitled through FIFA’s so-called ‘solidarity mechanism’,, external which stipulates that 5% of any international transfer fee must be set aside by the buying club to be distributed among each club the payer was registered with between his 12th and 23rd birthday.

Devine has also helped Senrab FC receive their share of the fee Sunderland paid Toronto for their former player Jermain Defoe.

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Jose Mourinho seemed pretty relaxed in the aftermath of defeat to Stoke, praising his team and answering questions thrown at him by the media.

But apparently not every journalist got nice Jose.

Conducting an interview with Bein Sports, Mourinho reacted to a question about Chelsea's defending for the goal they conceded by saying 'you want to go for the negative, I don't', patted his interviewer on the shoulder, and walked off saying 'bye'.

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Sepp Blatter is still swinging away, despite his suspension from any football activity. In an interview with TASS (a Russian news agency), he has claimed that Uefa chief Michel Platini (also suspended) is at the root of the conflict surrounding the world’s largest sports organization.

"At the beginning it was only a personal attack. It was Platini against me. He started it, but then it became politics," Blatter said.

The 79-year-old goes on to suggest that Platini's personal attack broadened to a Uefa and then European Union objection to him being Fifa president.

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Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer

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So when Everton boss Roberto Martinez says there "is not even a doubt" Tim Howard will be back in goal at weekend despite Joel Robles outstanding display against Norwich City, is he effectively saying performances count for nothing?

Makes life very comfortable for Howard.

Kelly Cates, Conor McNamara and Trevor Sinclair discuss the champions' fall from grace...

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Chelsea's players made their critics look "stupid" despite their Capital One Cup exit at Stoke, said a defiant Jose Mourinho.

The Blues boss claimed their display in the penalty shootout defeat, after a 1-1 draw, was enough to rubbish claims his players were not playing for him.

"What the players did tonight is face the people that write and say, 'you are stupid'," said 52-year-old Mourinho.

"You think the players did not give everything to win the game? That is really sad."

Elizabeth Hudson
BBC Sport at IPC Athletics Championships, Doha

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Britain's Richard Whitehead smashed his own T42 200m world record as he reached Wednesday's final at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha.

The 39-year-old powered through to win in 24.10 seconds, beating the 24.38 he set to win gold at London 2012.

"I knew I was in great shape and I wanted to go out and deliver that performance," Whitehead told BBC Sport.

Also through to the final is team-mate Dave Henson, who captained GB at last year's Invictus Games.

How about this lovely tribute to former Everton manager Howard Kendall, apparently penned by former Goodison striker and current first-team coach Duncan Ferguson?

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Widnes Vikings have allowed versatile winger Jack Owens to leave the Super League club.

The 21-year-old, who had one year remaining on his contract, made 87 appearances for the Vikings after making his debut in 2011.

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It is one of the hardest skills in cricket: bowling a good leg-spinner.

Adil Rashid became the first England leg-spinner to take five wickets in a Test since 1959 when he claimed 5-64 in the second innings of the first Test against Pakistan.

Our man Justin Parkinson has taken a in-depth look at why leg spin has proved such an illusive art to master in England and how Rashid could inspire more young cricketers in this country to try their hand at the discipline.

With Chelsea having lost all five of their penalty shootouts under Jose Mourinho's management, we want you to tell us...

What is your team's historic Achilles heel?

Krishna Kumar: Injuries have been Arsenal's Achilles heel for the past few seasons. Yesterday was more proof of that.

Ben Wills: Play-offs. Think most Swindon fans want them scrapped.

Gary Timms: Football. Football is Aston Villa's Achilles heel. Scoring goals. Passing. Tackling. All of it really.

Cheer up Gary, the season is still young...

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Welsh boxer Enzo Maccarinelli is today in Russia to seal a world title shot against legendary four-weight world champion Roy Jones Jr.

Russian Promoter Vladimir Hryunov has this morning posted a picture of Maccarinelli and 46-year-old Jones Jr on social media with the fight due to take place in Moscow on Saturday, 12 December.

American born Jones Jr - a former middleweight, cruiserweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight world champion - officially became a Russian citizen on Tuesday and he is today finalising a WBA world cruiserweight title fight with former WBO champion Maccarinelli.

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Fourth-seeded Petra Kvitova has defeated fellow Czech Lucie Safarova 7-5, 7-5 to get her first group-stage win at the WTA Finals.

Kvitova improved to 8-0 in career matches against the ninth-seeded Safarova, who has now lost both her matches in her first appearance at the season-ending tournament.

Second-seeded Garbine Muguruza takes on sixth-seeded Angelique Kerber later.