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Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Xabi Alonso as Manager of the Men’s Team.
The Spaniard will begin his role on July 1, 2026, having agreed a four-year contract at Stamford Bridge.
Welcome to Chelsea, Xabi!
In 2011, Mitchell Carey ate a corned beef sandwich at lunchtime. Twenty-five minutes later he was on the floor.
He sweated profusely, stripped off his clothes, and told the people around him his pain was ten out of ten.He was rushed to hospital.
Doctors treated him, stabilised him, and sent him home the same day. A serious case of food poisoning, they figured. Rest, medication, fluids. He would be fine. He was not fine.
The following day he collapsed again at home and was taken back to hospital, where he died on August 18 from multiple organ failure.
His body had been quietly destroying itself from the inside since that first bite.
What was k*lling him was something almost no one on earth had ever encountered. Clostridium perfringens Type A had only been recorded seven times in the world, according to an expert who testified at the inquest.
Not a rare condition. Not an unusual condition. A condition so obscure it barely existed in medical literature.
His doctors had almost no framework for recognising it, no established protocol for treating it, and very little understanding of how fast it could move.
It moved fast. From sandwich to d*ad in two days. His organs failed one by one while his family watched and doctors struggled to understand what they were even looking at.
By the time the picture became clear, there was nothing left to save.
His d*ath had initially been attributed to stepping on a sea urchin during a recent holiday in Greece, which tells you everything about how invisible and bewildering Clostridium perfringens Type A is.