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Football: Why life is full of `ifs' at Stamford Bridge.(Sport)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20040417
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Byline: ALISTAIR GRANT

CLAUDIO RANIERI yesterday revealed how he has drawn strength from the Rudyard Kipling poem `If' during the 10 turbulent months since Roman Abramovich swept into power which cast his future at Stamford Bridge in doubt.

The Chelsea coach disclosed that billionaire Russian Abramovich wanted to axe him the moment he took over last summer. Ranieri survived then -and when the Blues chief executive Peter Kenyon recently held secret talks with Sven-GoranEriksson -but now admits he faces an end-of-seasondeparture.

``It could be that. I lose my job at ...

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