The Heroes Return

May 21, 2012

May 21, 2012

Nice to see it come back to Britain and not Germany :lol:

It was all a bit "on the edge of your seat" though. A bit like the end to the Premier league season

Glad you enjoyed it Bali, I was thinking about you on Sat eve ;)

Kingo :thumbsup:

May 21, 2012

Mate if i die tomorrow i'll die having realised a dream, i have followed Chelsea since i was 8 years old, more or less home and away, to see my team lift the ultimate prize in world club football, if you are as passionate a football fan as i am, its stuff dreams are made of, no one can ever take that away from me and i'll take that moment when John and Frank lifted the European Champions Trophy aloft in the Allianz Arena to the grave with me, iv'e now seen my team win everything that there is to be won, its mission complete alright :)

May 22, 2012

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelseas-champions-league-and-fa-cup-841825

May 22, 2012

1. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him – maybe you can hire: Didier Drogba. Didier…f**king…Drogba. Nine cup finals, nine goals and a winning penalty in a Champions League final.

2. Petr Cech’s contribution was just as important. Two (possibly three) penalty saves; the first keeping in it and then second leaving them teetering on the precipice of Colossal display.

3. Elsewhere Gary ‘John Terry’ Cahill was fantastic and Ashley Cole was ‘one better’ as Nigel Tufnel would have it. Played like a hero. Juan Mata, on the other hand, was noticeably very poor – especially during the first 90 minutes. The onus was on him (at the top of the midfield) to make most of Chelsea’s scarce breaks and he routinely botched his pass/overran the ball and conceded possession. Ditto Toni Kroos on the other side of the divide.

4. That said, the lung-busting shift of the night was definitely put in by Jose Boswinga, who ran himself into the ground to make sure he was front and centre in every picture and photo after the final whistle!

5. Even at the most tense, fraught, distraught moment with fingers latticed over head and tears glistening on face, a fan will always break kayfabe in order to grin like a gorm once spotting themselves on the big screen. Always.

6. Chelsea opted for the ‘if it ain’t broke, etc, etc…’ tactical approach and sat incredibly deep while riding their luck for the majority of the game. Unadventurous, skittish and, against all probability, effective – for the third time on the spin! While a spectacle it doth maketh not, playing on the back foot from the off takes a lot of discipline and testicular fortitude. Kudos are definitely due.

7. The fact that Chelsea fans rose to applaud their team in at the end of the first half of extra time while the Bayern fans were struck by disconsolate silence probably tells you all you need to know about the two approaches on show.

8. Anatoliy Tymoshchuk looks like the quiet girl in the office that wears cardigans and of whom you have the sneaking suspicion may be a Jehovah’s Witness. Arjen Robben’s default facial expressional is that of a man who has just had wasp fly down behind the lens of his glasses.

9. Bayern’s set-pieces were the square root of ******* all evening.

10. He may have scored twentyahundred goals in however many games again this season, but Mario Gomez isn’t nearly as good as his goal record suggests. He’s a bit of a donkey – clumsy, profligate and often dramatically so. Also, Gomez’s failure to score a brace tonight means that Lionel Messi became the first player in the history of the European Cup/Champions League to finish top scorer for four seasons on the bounce. As with most things, all roads lead to Messi.

11. John Terry lifting the trophy in a ‘RIGHT TO PLAY’ shirt? The ironing is delicious.

October 12, 2012

I am also a Chelsea fan. I am following the club more intently when Mourinho took the charge. He left the club. But my love for Chelsea grew even wilder than before. It was heartbreak when Chelsea lost the chance to win the cup some years ago. Atlast the dream come true. Thanks for rewinding the happy memories..