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LONDON -- Chelsea has posted annual losses of more than $80 million but the Premier League club remains confident of complying with UEFAs Financial Fair Play rules. The club slipped back into the red a year after making a profit for the first time since Russian billionaire owner Roman Abramovichs takeover in 2003. Chelsea lost 49.4 million pounds ($81.7 million) in the year to June 30, after making a profit of 1.4 million pounds ($2.3 million) in 2011-12. But UEFA, the governing ....... for European football, allows unlimited investment on infrastructure and youth development, which Chelsea believes accounted for around 15 million pounds ($25 million) in spending in 2012-13. UEFA is allowing losses of up to 45 million euros ($62 million) in the first FFP monitoring period -- 2011-2013 -- without the risk of being barred from European competitions. UEFA wants clubs to move toward breaking even on their football-related activities, and will be preparing in March and April to punish the first clubs for FFP breaches. "We will meet the stipulations set down by UEFA in their first assessment period," Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck said Tuesday in a statement giving a partial breakdown of financial results. "And by our own analysis we are progressing from a commercial viewpoint as well as continuing to add trophies to our collection, which we never lose sight of as our most important goal." The 2011-12 profit of 1.4 million pounds ($2.3 million) came on the back of generating around 90 million pounds ($149 million) from the transfer market and a successful Champions League campaign. But Chelseas UEFA income was hit despite winning the Europa League in May because the team was knocked out of the more lucrative Champions League at the group stage. So, although Chelsea posted a record turnover of 255.8 million pounds ($423 million) in 2012-13, it only rose by 100,000 pounds ($165,500). But commercial income grew 20 per cent year-on-year to 79.6 million pounds ($132 million), and there should be a more significant uplift in 2013-14 when the first year of a 300 million-pound ($497-million), 10-year contract extension with kit maker Adidas kicks in. Chelsea has also advanced beyond the Champions League group stage this season and is third in the Premier League, two points behind leader Arsenal. "For Chelsea FC to achieve a record level of turnover despite our first group-stage elimination from the Champions League shows we have structured our business and are growing in the correct way for long-term stability," chief executive Ron Gourlay said. 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Tampa Bay currently holds the last of the Atlantics three automatic bids to the playoffs, but the Maple Leafs are just one point behind.Lewis Hamilton is in meltdown after his blunders both on and off the track at the Japanese GP, according to Mondays papers. The Brit fell 33 points behind Nico Rosberg after finishing third in Suzuka following a poor start, while he cancelled two media briefings claiming he was disrespected by the written press.Hamiltons disastrous and possibly decisive weekend in the title race followed his use of Snapchat during Thursdays press conference, for which he was heavily criticised by Fleet Street. And, as Kevin Eason writes in The Times, his overblown reaction revealed a delicate ego and a fragile mental state. Japanese GP winners & losersExecutives were mouthing the word meltdown afterwards to describe Hamiltons mood after a tumultuous three days in which he slid from cocky prankster to sullen loser as he realised that this world championship is slipping through his fingers, continues Eason.While Hamilton donned a tin hat and dug his solitary trench after declaring war on the worlds press, Rosberg kept himself to himself as he has all season; head down and focus on his mantra, he says. And it works. Lewis Hamilton drops back to eighth after a poor start in the Japanese GP The Telegraphs Daniel Johnson agrees that Mercedes fear their lead driver is in meltdown at one of the most critical junctures of his career while citing that Hamilton is cracking under pressure from his team-mate.Hamilton is without a victory in five Grands Prix while Rosberg continues to flourish, and the German can afford to cruise to a maiden title with just four races remaining. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. The extra few per cent which ensured in the last two years that Rosberg was left trailing have gone missing, Johnson writes. More worrying are signs the apparent psychological fortitude he has built up can crumble so spectacularly under pressure from Rosberg. Nico and Lewis in 2016: A sprint to the finish Nico Rosberg Lewis Hamilton Points 313 280 Best possible finish 413 380 What they need for title 2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st* *four wins would still not guarantee title Hamilton hits the self-destruct button, is the headline on Johnsons article, while The Daily Mail reports that Lewis needs title miracle as blunder lets Nico coast to win.dddddddddddd A Monday piece in The Guardian, meanwhile, focuses on Hamiltons Snapchat antics.It is a testament to Hamiltons apparently bottomless reserves of childishness that he somehow contrived to emerge from what should have been a relatively amusing wheeze looking utterly charmless, writes Barry Glendenning. Lewis Hamilton says his horror start in Suzuka was down to wheelspin Increasingly prone to conducting himself in the manner of a man who believes he is some sort of riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, more often than not his attempts to appear brooding and inscrutable come across as the childishness of a paranoid brat.The reaction to Hamiltons cancelled post-qualifying press briefing was also explosive within Fleet Street, with Johnson writing in the Sunday Telegraph that Hamiltons bizarre behaviour left Mercedes red-faced again.Wolff: Lewis form not affectedIn another sign that Hamilton has the freedom to act as he likes without fulfilling Mercedes wishes, the world champion suggested he would not be fulfilling his written media duties much longer, Johnson continued.The Sunday Mirrors back page headline of the story was Berk in the Merc while The Suns respective headlines read Lew-sing plot and Ham snaps. Lewis Hamiltons dad insists disappointments on the track and distractions off it wont distract the world champions bid to retain the title Lewis Hamilton was all snap and no chat, penned Jonny Fordham. Hamilton was livid at the unsurprisingly negative reaction to his childish Snapchat antics.Now the growing feeling among the paddock is that Hamilton does not just run Merc but the whole of Formula One and he has become untouchable. But this is Hamiltons world. A social media bubble where his die-hard fans worship motorsports Mr Marmite like a leader of a cult.Dont miss The F1 Reports review of the Japanese GP on Sky Sports F1 at 8.30pm on Wednesday eveningYou can watch Englands tour of Bangladesh, plus Premier League football and the British Masters on Sky Sports. Upgrade now and enjoy three months at half price! Also See: Wolff: Lewis form not affected Japanese GP winners & losers The Formula 1 Gossip Column Japanese GP driver ratings China Jerseys ' ' '