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Mon 04 Apr 2007Chelsea watch it slipping awayChelsea 2 Bolton 2:Jose Mourinho has been centre stage in many a football drama but now he must get ready to tread the boards in the minor role of graceful loser. It is a part for which he is under-rehearsed. Though cup ties have slipped away here and there, he has won the league for four seasons in a row at Porto and Chelsea.Mourinho himself all but conceded the title to United in the dressingroom after this game, before immediately switching his players' attention to tomorrow's second leg of the Champions League semi-final with Liverpool at Anfield.