Chelsea continued their bitter feud with Antonio Conte over a severance package worth up to £20 million in court yesterday.

The club were told to compensate their former head coach in May, after a ten-month battle. The award is thought to have been made up of the final year of his contract, a sum for damages and costs and was decided by a three-man Premier League arbitration tribunal, who ruled in favour of Conte. The 50-year-old left the club last summer after two seasons and has since been appointed head coach of Inter Milan.

Chelsea have seemingly refused to accept the verdict, however, and the legal battle continued yesterday at the London Central Employment Tribunal. The hearing discussed details of the case, which is likely