Chelsea and Conte's problems ahead of next season laid bare at Wembley

Stern tests await Chelsea next season with their manager now needing fresh blood and fresh ideas to carry the fight on multiple fronts

The double has proven one step too far for Chelsea. Diego Costa’s late equaliser gave the Premier League champions momentary hope in the season’s finale at Wembley but it was not enough to mask a bad day at the office. You would expect to see Chelsea wrest a contest like this from the grip of a team they were fancied to beat but they couldn’t do it here. That spoke volumes.

Wenger savages Arsenal fans before final

Their hopes were extinguished when Alexis Sanchez initially found Olivier Giroud with a quick through ball. Aaron Ramsey slipped the wrong side of Ngolo Kante and from there Arsenal’s record 13th FA Cup title was secure.

At times like this it is not difficult to see the issues Chelsea are going to have next season – both as title holders with other top class sides chasing them down –and fighting on an added front in the Champions League.

No one would accuse an Antonio Conte team of complacency but this was a game in which they were so unlike their usual selves. They should have been three down by half time. They were caught only seconds after levelling.

Arsenal sprung no surprise in matching up to Chelsea’s system. What was unexpected though is that Arsene Wenger’s side outfought and outthought Chelsea pretty much from the first whistle to last. And this was with depleted numbers. Kieran Gibbs was ruled out late yesterday while the rest of the backline was patched up due to the absences of Shkodran Mustafi and Laurent Koscielny.

Chelsea don’t have many days like this – if they did then they wouldn’t have won so many games in the league this season – but their uncharacteristic sloppiness cost them a second trophy in Conte’s debut campaign.

Hazard yet to receive Chelsea offer

Arsenal were ahead as early as the fourth minute when Alexis Sanchez fired home amid the controversy surrounding Aaron Ramsey’s offside position.

But ignore that. Rewind the tape and look at Diego Costa causing Kante to stumble as Chelsea attempt to clear from the initial chance.

Conte has drilled his players to perfection all season long and their breakouts tend to follow a familiar pattern. There was a malfunction, however, and they paid the price once Alexis finished across Thibaut Courtois.

Costa was probably Chelsea’s worst player in the first half. He was temperamental – clashing early with Rob Holding – and his body language suggested he was going to do something silly.

He improved, however, and kept his head on a day when Victor Moses lost his in getting red carded for diving.

Whatever happens with Costa – whether he stays or goes – Chelsea need a high-class centre forward capable of challenging for a first-team slot. Likewise, pressure will need to be exerted on Chelsea's top men lest they grow comfortable. 

They are the most-predictable team in the league but that has been generally a strength rather than a weakness given their relentless success in league play.

But Conte’s preferred close-knit group of 13 will simply be insufficient to fight on all fronts next term. Nemanja Matic was exposed at Wembley and comfortably beaten in the midfield battle by Granit Xhaka. The centre sector of the pitch was the wild west at times but only the Swiss seemed able to tame it.

When opposition teams have opted to man-mark Chelsea around the pitch it has taken a force of will to carry them through. 

They didn’t get that here - not from Pedro, not from Eden Hazard - against an inspired Arsenal. These players were fighting for their manager and delivered Arsene Wenger a performance that restored the Frenchman some of the dignity his history merits.

Opposite him Antonio Conte’s challenge was laid bare. He must do more than cross his arms when his team are outmatched next season. New players and new thoughts are going to have to emerge over what is expected to be a full-on summer. 

SOURCE: goal.com

N’Golo Kante explains why he joined Chelsea from Leicester

By Ben Green

Two-time Premier League title winner N’Golo Kante

Following on from the announcement that Chelsea and France midfielder N’golo Kante was crowned the EA SPORTS Player of the Season for 2016/17, easports.com spoke with the two-time Premier League title winner around the season as a whole, Antonio Conte’s tactics and what he aims to improve ahead of next season.

Kante covers a wide range of topics in the question and answer session below.

Undoubtedly, the most interesting is why Kante joined Chelsea in the first place.

“A step forward in my career”

Arguably, you could say that Kante signing for Chelsea was the crucial component to make them Premier League champions.

After all the French midfielder has no won the Premier League with two different clubs in successive seasons.

On leaving Leicester for Chelsea, Kante says: “It was a very difficult decision. With Leicester, we won the league and had a very good season but I think for me, it was a step forward in my career to join Chelsea and I am happy to have joined the club. We have had a very good season and I’m happy about that.”

EA Sports Q&A with N’Golo Kante

Congratulations N’golo, you have been named as the EA SPORTS Player Of The Season – How does it feel to get recognition from people like Sir Alex Ferguson, Alan Shearer and other big names in football?

It’s great to be voted as Player Of The Season by such big names in English football and football in general. I would also like to thank everyone at home who voted for me as well.

How does it make you feel that you have had this recognition?

It’s good as we have had a very good season as a club and we want to finish well in the FA Cup Final. To receive this award is a great pleasure and I want to thank everyone who voted for me.

How does this compare to winning the title with Leicester City last season?

It is a little bit different as with Leicester City it was very unexpected for us to win the league but with Chelsea it has been our target from the beginning of the season. To achieve that has been a great feeling.

You’ve had a very successful season personally, winning multiple awards, how do you reflect on the season for yourself?

I am very happy with my season. I joined Chelsea and everything was good, I played a lot, we won the league and now we have to finish strong by winning in the FA Cup Final – but so far we have had a very good season and I’m happy about that.

What made you want to join Chelsea in the first place?

It was a very difficult decision. With Leicester, we won the league and had a very good season but I think for me, it was a step forward in my career to join Chelsea and I am happy to have joined the club. We have had a very good season and I’m happy about that.

Everyone has made the point that you were with Leicester and they won the league and you are now with Chelsea and they have won the league. We believe you are only the second player to have achieved this, how proud does it make you feel?

Firstly, I am very proud to have won the title with both Leicester City and Chelsea. I think of it differently as it is not important to be a player written in history to have won back to back titles, but to win the title with two teams is great and to have two great seasons with two clubs makes me happy.

Winning back-to-back titles is very difficult to achieve – what do you put your success down to?

I work hard in training and during the game I will always give my best. I have also played with some very good players and I believe this is why I have won two titles in two seasons with two different teams.

What drives you personally?

The desire to always keep improving whilst learning from my manager and my teammates, as well as trying to win every game possible.

People always say that it takes time to adapt to playing in the Premier League but obviously you have come in and won the title with both Leicester and Chelsea – has this season been easier for you than last season?

It was very similar, as I had to try and adapt to a new club and a new team. I would say Leicester was different to Chelsea as this was my first club in England and the players were really nice to me. With Chelsea this is similar, we have a good spirit and everyone wants to win – and at the end of the day we won the league because we are a very good team.

Chelsea are a very good team – what is your personal highlight from this season?

I don’t think I would be able to choose one but when I arrived here I expected to be at the top of the table again. To win the league again would be my highlight from this season.

How do you improve on a season like this? What are N’golo Kante’s ambitions for next season?

Firstly, we need to finish the season on a high and win the FA Cup. Next season I am looking forward to playing in the Champions League as I have never played in this competition before. We also need to aim to retain our title as the Premier League champions. I am also looking forward to the World Cup with the national team.

How do you aim to improve as a player? What do you need to do next season to push yourself?

Try and do the same as always, work hard and play in-sync with my teammates. I need to see what I need to do for the level of the Champions League. Mainly, I just need to keep giving my best in the Premier League.

Is there a game in which you played in this season, which stands out to you as your best performance?

The team performed well all season but I would choose the Everton game as we won 5-0 and it was a very beautiful game. I would also choose the two goals which I scored against Manchester United. I’m happy to have scored against them and it’s always a great feeling to score.

A lot has been said about Antonio Conte changing the tactics back in September to 3-4-3, how did this effect your role and what was it like to have to adapt to the new role?

It was a new system to me; I never played in a 3-4-3 before but the manager worked really hard with us in training and after this I feel I adapted very well to the new system. Initially when we played 4-3-3 and I sat in front of the back four and it was a little bit different, but now I’m happy that the team are doing well in the new formation.

How much are you looking forward to next season?

We want to try and retain the title and get as far in the Champions League as possible. But we need to finish well in the FA Cup and then we can look forward to next season.

It’s been reported that yourself and David Luiz have a very good relationship – What’s it like playing alongside him?

Firstly, he is a very good man; he always wants to learn and help those younger than them. He has a lot of experience and will always share this with the younger players. He is a very good player who had a very good season and I am happy for me as he told me that he never wanted to leave Chelsea and we managed to win the league this season.

How fun is David Luiz to be around?

He always likes to joke around with me; sometimes he is very funny, sometimes not so much. He is a very good man and I like him a lot.

How do you feel you have developed under Antonio Conte this season? Do you feel like you have learned a lot?

Yes, I think tactically he has improved me. I learned a lot last season with Claudio Ranieri and again I have learned a lot this season with my new manager. Conte has helped me looking forward, as well as tactical awareness.

You seem to be a very popular player amongst the Chelsea squad as well as other Premier League players and fans. You always have a smile on your face – how important is it to keep a smile on the fans faces as well as your own?

It is a pleasure to be here and play football. A few years ago I just expected to be a professional footballer but not here. But to be here today at a big club like Chelsea playing alongside my teammates and to win the title like we did was a pleasure, and I want to enjoy it whilst I can as time goes quick.

Do you play much FIFA 17 as a team and if so, who is the best?

Yes, we do play FIFA 17 together. I tend to play against Cesar Azpilucueta a lot, who is very good and usually beats me, but he said that Thibaut Courtios is very good as well, so I guess I will have to say Thibaut Courtois is the best!

You’re not the first person to say that Courtois is the best FIFA 17 player – Does he beat everyone?

He beat me once! I think he and Azpi are the best, but Zouma and David Luiz are also very good. We seem to have some quite good FIFA 17 players at Chelsea!

Does it get competitive?

Oh yes, it does get competitive. Sometimes I won and sometimes I lose but we have such a good squad harmony.

N’golo Kante was speaking to EASPORTS.com after being named as the EA SPORTS Player Of The Season. 

SOURCE: 101greatgoals.com

Ajax 0-2 Manchester United PLAYER RATINGS: Defensive rock Daley Blind snuffed out Dutch threat, while Paul Pogba was too big to handle

Blind joined in the celebrations after Paul Pogba had opened the scoring against Ajax

Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored a goal in each half as Manchester United outclassed Ajax to win an emotional Europa League final and qualify for the group stages of next season's Champions League. 

World record signing Pogba opened the scoring in the 18th minute as United won the ball after an Ajax throw-in, the Frenchman's shot taking a wicked deflection to wrong foot goalkeeper Andre Onana and fly into the net.

Mkhitaryan then flicked the ball home early in the second half following a United corner, and with chants of "Manchester! Manchester!" echoing around the stadium, United held on to win the only European trophy missing from the cabinet.

MANCHESTER UNITED (4-2-3-1)

Sergio Romero 6 – Kept his concentration to save well from Traore on a rare occasion he was tested. Didn’t do anything wrong to suggest de Gea should have played instead.

Antonio Valencia 7.5 – Rested by Jose Mourinho from Premier League games ever since United qualified for the final and the captain’s experience was invaluable. Nearly scored with a fierce shot.

Chris Smalling 7 – Might have changed Mourinho’s opinion of him. Always on the front foot against 16-goal Dolberg and an attacking threat at United set-pieces, setting up second goal.

Daley Blind 8 – Outstanding against his former club. Hardly ever out of position and nicked the ball away from Traore when he burst through. Took a lot of United’s free-kicks and a verbal presence

Matteo Darmian 6.5 – Adopted the Italian defender’s mentality though shalt not pass. Left-back stuck to his task tracking Traore’s movement and threw his body to block striker and stop a goal

Ander Herrera 6 – Found Ajax’s technical players hard to keep up with and worked overtime to protect the back-four allowing Pogba and Fellaini to get forward. Took one for the team.

Paul Pogba 7.5 – Repaid a handsome slice of the £89million transfer fee. Too big for Ajax to handle, literally. Scored the first goal with a deflection and had players bouncing off him.

Juan Mata 7 – Justified Mourinho’s decision to pick stealth over speed with the Spaniard getting the nod over Lingard. He floated around from his starting position on the right to good effect. Booked.

Marouane Fellaini 7 – A right royal pain in the backside for the opposition as usual. Tripped Sanchez, was accused of handball, then set up Pogba’s goal and was in the area for United’s second.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan 6.5 – Was fairly poor until he produced a moment of magic to score United’s second with an overhead flick. Put a defensive shift in before his sixth Europa League goal. Booked. Substituted.

Marcus Rashford 6.5 – His pace occupied two Ajax defenders at all times which is a great asset for United. Often turned a bad ball into a good one and also tracked back to help his team out. 

Substitutes

Lingard for Mkhitaryan (74 mins) 6 – Brought customary energy but fluffed a one-against-one

Martal for Rashford (84 mins) – Just who you want when teams are tiring

Rooney (for Mata 90) – Got one of the loudest cheers of the night when he got on

Manager

Jose Mourinho 7 – He won’t win in the style of previous Manchester United managers but you can’t knock him after winning a second trophy of the season albeit with a functional rather than flamboyant performance. 

AJAX (4-3-3)

Andre Onana 6 – Was caught out by Pogba’s deflected shot despite getting his fingertips to the ball. Made a nervy start but redeemed himself with a neat save from Valencia’s well-struck effort

Joel Veltman 5.5 – Impeded Onana in the very first minute to give Pogba a chance and things didn’t improve when he let Mkhitaryan nip in front to score with a terrific overhead kick after half-time. Booked.

Davinson Sanchez 6 – A night of extremes for the Chelsea target. Stuck out a leg to deflect Pogba’s shot for the opening goal and took other risks. But forward runs had Ajax fans chanting his name.

Matthijs de Ligt 6.5 – Terrific positional sense to block Rashford’s shot and stuck to his task against a quicker opponent. Not so good in possession and carelessly gave ball away in un-Ajax fashion.

Jairo Riedewald 6 – An attacking left-back by nature, he struggled when pinned back by Valencia. Produced one excellent cross that was begging Dolberg to put it in.

Davy Klaessen 6 – Ajax’s 24-year-old skipper struggled to make a big impression against United’s tough guys. The highly-rated midfielder made little impression in the final third.

Lasse Schone 5.5 – His right-footed set pieces were a threat but found a Europa League final a big step up in class from Holland’s Eredivisie.

Hakim Ziyech 6 – Excellent first touch made him hard for Herrera nad Fellaini to pick up. Dangerous cross forced Pogba to clear from Dolberg but sometimes loose in possession.

Bertrand Traore 7 – Chelsea loanee had a good go. Tested Romero with Ajax’s first shot on target and claimed a penalty when he felt he was obstructed by Darmian. Hugged the right-hand touchline.

Kasper Dolberg 5.5 – Ajax’s top scorer this season was spotted by Denis Bergkamp at 17 but didn’t have his best night. Closely marked and beaten by Smalling in build-up to United’s second goal.

Amin Younes 6.5 – Showed good technical skills and gave Herrera a difficult time with his running. But faded once Valencia spotted the danger and used his experience to reduce his influence. 

Substitutes

Neres (for Dolberg 62) 6 Suffered the same lack of joy and accidentally caught Smalling

Van de Beek (for Schone 70) 6 Failed to make an impact

De jong (for Ridewald 82) The game was over by the time he arrived.

Manager

Peter Bosz 6.5 – Deserves great credit for taking a team with an average age under 23 to a European final. But they came up against bigger, better and more experienced. 

SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk

Manchester United vs Ajax: Full squad for Europa League final

Jose Mourinho has taken a 20-man Manchester United squad to Stockholm for Wednesday night’s Europa League final.

David de Gea has travelled even though it is widely expected Sergio Romero will start against Ajax and in terms of defensive options both Phil Jones and Chris Smalling have travelled. One is likely to partner Daley Blind at centre-back but at this stage it isn’t known.

Youngsters Timothy Fosu-Mensah andAxel Tuanzebe are in the squad, as

is goalkeeper Joel Pereira , but there are no other youngsters who were involved against Crystal Palace.

Here is the full squad via Manchester Evening News :David de Gea , Sergio Romero , Joel Pereira , Timothy Fosu-Mensah , Antonio Valencia , Axel Tuanzebe , Phil Jones , Chris Smalling , Daley Blind , Matteo Darmian ,Ander Herrera , Michael Carrick , Marouane Fellaini , Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard , Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Juan Mata ,Wayne Rooney , Anthony Martial , Marcus Rashford

All in all, it’s as strong a squad as we could hope with the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Marcos Rojo and Luke Shaw all out with injury. Two players won’t be named in the final 18-man match day squad and they are probably going to be Pereira and Fosu-Mensah looking at the list, so long as other players aren’t injured between now and kick-off.

As always, we will bring you the full starting XI when it is announced an hour before-kick off on Wednesday night.

SOURCE: thepeoplesperson.com

Chelsea star opens up about Barcelona’s interest

By Benjamin Newman

Chelsea & Barcelona

The season could still get better for Chelsea.

Having wrapped up the Premier League title a few weeks ago, the Blues completed their EPL campaign with a 5-1 win over Sunderland last weekend.

Antonio Conte will be hoping to lay his hands on a second trophy this weekend as the Blues take on Arsenal at Wembley in the FA Cup final.

Will the Italian end up doing the domestic double?

At the same time, rumours have popped up in Spain linking FC Barcelona with one of Chelsea’s most important players.

What’s the story?

Only one Chelsea player played every single minute of the Blues’ EPL campaign in 2016-17: Spanish international Cesar Azpilicueta.

That’s recently lead to claims that the versatile defender could swap Stamford Bridge for the Camp Nou, and on Tuesday Marca have extracted quotes from the Blues star on a possible return to his homeland.

Azpilicueta shrugged off the speculation as follows:

It’s a compliment that a club like Barca can be interested in you. Last year, after a bad season on a collective level, we did not have those types of rumours.

This year, however, we have been proclaimed champions and this type of information indicates that we have done well

Interest from teams of this level is very positive, but I am very happy here (at Chelsea). I feel very valued by the club and I do not think of anything else.

For the record, Azpilicueta recently agreed a new deal with Chelsea back in December which will keep him under contract until 2020.

SOURCE: 101greatgoals.com

What Osama Bin Laden told me before he was Killed – Wife, Amal

By Seun Opejobi 

Wife of the late leader of Islamic terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Amal Bin Laden, has revealed the last words of her husband before he was killed by American soldiers.

American SEAL Special Forces had on May 11, 2011, killed Bin Laden in his ‘safe house’ in the mountains of Abbottabad in Pakistan.

Amal bin Laden recounted the event of the day in the book, Exile: The Flight of Osama bin Laden, Daily Mail, UK reports.

Narrating the event of the night, Amal said after dinner, the dishes, and prayer, bin Laden was fast asleep while his fourth wife lay next to him.

“Outside, the streets were dark due to an electricity shortage, something that was a common occurrence in the area”.

Amal disclosed that she heard a “chop chop chop sound and thought she saw shadows dancing on the windows. Bin Laden sat up, looking frightened.”

Quoting Bin Laden, Amal said, “Americans are coming,’he said, panting. Then there was a loud screeching noise and the house rocked.”

SOURCE: dailypost.ng

COFFEE HOUSE The Manchester attack is especially vile but we must go on

Alex Massie

The first victim named was from Lancashire, the second an eight-year old girl. Two girls from the isle of Barra in the Western Isles are among those still unaccounted for. A reminder, if it were needed, that though this was an attack in Manchester, the chains of personal connections to the horror stretch all across Britain. You cannot read the stories of those killed or missing without choking, without tears, without appreciating that even by the standards of contemporary terrorism there was something especially vile about this latest atrocity.  

It is natural to feel helpless as well as angry, not least because the imaginative gulf between the norms of civilised society and the mind capable of contemplating, and then committing, this kind of atrocity yawns so wide it’s all but unbridgeable. How do you respond to something you cannot understand? You cannot empathise, even as a hypothetical exercise, with minds that think a concert hall full of teenage girls is a necessary target.

There is no political agenda advanced, in however perverted or despicable a fashion, by this barbarism. There is no change of government policy, or shift in priorities, that would minimise the risk of this happening again. The experiences of France, Belgium, and Germany should show even people seeking the fig-leaf of an easy answer that foreign policy is a wholly inadequate explanation for these murderous acts. It’s a sickness of the mind, not blowback. 

In the aftermath of this, nuance is easily lost but no less important than ever. To observe that an act of terrorism was religiously-motivated does not mean responsibility for it is shared by all the perpetrator’s co-religionists. And yet it remains reasonable to ask what motivated the bomber, who inspired him, whose writings or teachings or words gave him the serenity and security of ‘righteousness’ and ask what can be done to counter this. We ask because we need to know and because knowing can aid the process of doing something, however imperfectly, about it. 

That might amount to little more than more of the same and it is easy, in the heartbroken pain of the moment, to understand why that must seem a wholly inadequate, even insulting, response to murder on this scale. And yet the alternatives are no better and often worse. An over-reaction, while satisfying a sense of justified outrage, does little to make such events less likely in the future. And any reaction which fails to meet that test – the test of whether it makes these attacks more or less likely – is likely to prove unwise. 

The bromides about a community pulling together, about insisting that we have more in common than whatever divides us, that we – that Manchester – will meet horror with a certain dogged fortitude, have become the stuff of cliche. But cliches rest on truths and a hackneyed truth is no less true for being so familiar it risks seeming glib. The official responses to last night’s events, from the Prime Minister down, have said all the right things in all the right, grimly familiar, ways. 

We know, at some fundamental level, that we have been lucky for most of this century. Fortunate that such incidents, terrifying as they are, have been rarer than might have been expected. That owes much to the work of the security services and the police, for whose efforts today we give thanks once more. That work continues and arrests on terrorism charges are now so routine they rarely lead the news bulletins. 

The price of vigilance is also paid in realism. We appreciate that not everything can be done everywhere. Sometimes, appallingly, the bomber or the knifeman or the shooter will get through. An open society is also a vulnerable society but we can no more close off our public spaces than we can imagine dramatically reordering our way of life to take account of what are, hard as it is to remember today, mercifully rare events. There are things we could do that we cannot do. This is a hard truth too. 

None of that reduces the pity and horror we feel today and nor does it require us to skirt around the issue of responsibility for this barbarism. It only asks us to think on what we prize, on the values – for they are real – and the virtues, which are also real, of an open society in which peoples of dramatically different backgrounds, of all faiths and none, all have a place. 

Clickbait hackery will call for internment or mass surveillance or some other dramatic gesture that satisfies the craving to ‘just do something, damnit’, but that would do little to improve security or that, even if it did, would require us to sacrifice the very principles that, in our grander moments, we think define our society, our way of life. Here, as everywhere, there are trade-offs and sometimes these are deeply, necessarily, uncomfortable. 

Instinctively, I think, most people understand this. They appreciate that realism is not the same as fatalism and far less is it any kind of capitulation. Even amidst heartbreak, decency finds a way. We saw that, in the immediacy of the moment, in the thousands of individual acts of instinctive kindness in Manchester last night and this morning. Taken singly these were only small; together they became something mighty. 

That’s not enough but neither is it nothing. We grieve and we mourn and we do not forget. But we do go on. This is Manchester. This is Britain. 

SOURCE: blogs.spectator.co.uk

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning walks free today

"For the first time, I can see a future for myself as Chelsea," says the US soldier after her 35-year sentence was commuted by President Obama.

by Richard Trenholm

Supporters of Chelsea Manning have protested around the world.Gail Orenstein/Corbis/Getty Images

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning walks free from prison today, after serving nearly 7 years of a 35-year sentence.

Formerly known as Bradley Manning, the US soldier and intelligence analyst was imprisoned after leaking diplomatic and military documents to Wikileaks in 2010. Her sentence was commuted by outgoing President Barack Obama in January.

"For the first time, I can see a future for myself as Chelsea," said Manning, a transgender woman held in a male prison, in a statement released via her legal team. "Freedom used to be something that I dreamed of but never allowed myself to fully imagine. Now, freedom is something that I will again experience with friends and loved ones after nearly seven years of bars and cement, of periods of solitary confinement, and of my health care and autonomy restricted, including through routinely forced haircuts. I am forever grateful to the people who kept me alive, President Obama, my legal team and countless supporters."

For the time being, Manning will continue to be on active duty in the US military pending the outcome of her appeal.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange hailed Manning's release as an "epic victory".

Julian Assange @JulianAssange

Chelsea Manning to be freed in hours. An epic victory. I can't wait to see her. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/chelsea-manning-is-expected-to-leave-prison-28-years-early.html?_r=0 …

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12:50 AM - 17 May 2017

Chelsea Manning Is Expected to Leave Prison, 28 Years Early

Ms. Manning is to be released from military prison on Wednesday. The bulk of her sentence for leaking government secrets was commuted by President Barack Obama.

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