Antonio Conte craves continuity – but time is never on your side at Chelsea | Jacob Steinberg

Champions head to Wembley on back of a farcical opening-day display that bore out their fraught summer – and their manager would like sturdier foundationsIf Antonio Conte knows his history, he will be aware that time is not a luxury his predecessors at Chelsea have enjoyed in recent years. Patience has rarely been a virtue in Roman Abramovich’s world and at 3.45pm last Saturday, when Chelsea found themselves a man and 3-0 down to Burnley, it is unlikely that the owner was thinking ab