Chelsea are the EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS!

Crann na Beatha

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Gandalph

smuckers wrote: »

He puts Chelsea into the CL final, granted he'll prob never be the same player he was, his game has changed too, I wouldn't say he had a muck season, didn't score enough but didn't play badly.

They were already through, ah come on its his role as a striker to score and he was very below par this season

J. Marston

Reganio 2 wrote: »

I really want to see a good photo of Ashley Cole with the trophy, love the man he's earned it. Liverpool fan here, but can't but smile at the little jibes at us for no reason, sure if that's how you wanna celebrate well done.

Probably because of the ''plastic flags/no history'' brigade. If I was a Chelsea fan, I'd make sure that there would be some playful banter if we won the Champions League.

invinciblePRSTV

I salute our new European champion overlords. All hail the one they call Drogba!

Nozebleed

Aquila wrote: »

Soooo I was imagining this;

After Drogba scored the winning penalty ?

in fairness..this picture was taken long after drogba scored the winning pen. for a good 5 minutes drogba was lying on the ground (as usual) waiting for his team mates to show him some love....a few subs made their way over to him..and eventually a few of the team ran down..but to be fair it showed them up as a bunch of individual players and not a team. some serious issues going on in the back ground i would think.

DebDynamite

Nozebleed wrote: »

in fairness..this picture was taken long after drogba scored the winning pen. for a good 5 minutes drogba was lying on the ground (as usual) waiting for his team mates to show him some love....a few subs made their way over to him..and eventually a few of the team ran down..but to be fair it showed them up as a bunch of individual players and not a team. some serious issues going on in the back ground i would think.

Drogba and Cech hugged each other after Drogba scored his penalty. You can see Luis on his own down on his knees but he was probably praying. Some players just like to have a moment to themselves to pray and to take in what just happened.

J. Marston

DebDynamite wrote: »

Drogba and Cech hugged each other after Drogba scored his penalty. You can see Luis on his own down on his knees but he was probably praying. Some players just like to have a moment to themselves to pray and to take in what just happened.

No, no. They all hate each other.

Sgt Pepper 64

Just watching the 2 buses we parked in the barca matches start the victory parade. Amazingly - they CAN move forward!

Brain Stroking

Reganio 2 wrote: »

I really want to see a good photo of Ashley Cole with the trophy, love the man he's earned it. Liverpool fan here, but can't but smile at the little jibes at us for no reason, sure if that's how you wanna celebrate well done.

Exactly, i am as good a man as anyone at giving Liverpool stick but last night had nothing to do with Liverpool. Last night was great servants like Cole, Lampard, Drogba and Cech win a European Cup they were due. There's so much to dislike about Drogba but he surpassed himself last night in my eyes. His equaliser was one of the best headers scored this season and a great goal worthy of any final.
All the anti-football talk too is complete rubbish. Football involves both attack and defence. Chelsea were limited in one so focussed on the other and defended brilliantly. They fully deserved to win because what they could do well they did. Bayern bottled it and deserved nothing.
Also, the JT talk is a little harsh too. I dislike the man but he is the heart of Chelsea and is the team's leader. Wanting to share in the win is natural. Whether he deserved to be there with them is a no brainer for me. He missed one game but played the rest. An ever present over the past 10 years. Give the man a break!

niallo27

Brain Stroking wrote: »

Exactly, i am as good a man as anyone at giving Liverpool stick but last night had nothing to do with Liverpool. Last night was great servants like Cole, Lampard, Drogba and Cech win a European Cup they were due. There's so much to dislike about Drogba but he surpassed himself last night in my eyes. His equaliser was one of the best headers scored this season and a great goal worthy of any final.
All the anti-football talk too is complete rubbish. Football involves both attack and defence. Chelsea were limited in one so focussed on the other and defended brilliantly. They fully deserved to win because what they could do well they did. Bayern bottled it and deserved nothing.
Also, the JT talk is a little harsh too. I dislike the man but he is the heart of Chelsea and is the team's leader. Wanting to share in the win is natural. Whether he deserved to be there with them is a no brainer for me. He missed one game but played the rest. An ever present over the past 10 years. Give the man a break!

Did Chelsea defend that well last night though, they did get some great blocks in at time but they have up a lot of chances to Munich, I would say Munich only scoring once had more to do with Munich being wasteful than chelsea's brilliant defending. I though Luiz looked out of his dept out there.

Crackle

Nozebleed wrote: »

in fairness..this picture was taken long after drogba scored the winning pen. for a good 5 minutes drogba was lying on the ground (as usual) waiting for his team mates to show him some love....a few subs made their way over to him..and eventually a few of the team ran down..but to be fair it showed them up as a bunch of individual players and not a team. some serious issues going on in the back ground i would think.

5 mins? Just watched it on YouTube and what I saw was Drogba run to Cech, Luiz dropped to his knees praying, several players ran to the fans and within 20 seconds of the ball hitting the back of the net the picture above happened.

jive

niallo27 wrote: »

Chelsea were already winning when he scored though.

They were already winning but that goal put them through. Barca still had 5 or so minutes to get 1 goal and they were going through. When he got the goal it put the tie to bed.

You fail to mention who won the corner last night that Drogba scored from. I'll give you a clue though, it was a result of some direct attacking play from a former Liverpool player. Torres had more than a bit part to play in getting Chelsea to the final, I think he had 3 goals and ~5 assists.

Anyone know if Anelka gets a winners medal? What's the criteria for getting one? He only moved in January didn't he? Think he played a few group games. Handy aul winners medal if he gets one :pac:

Killinator

Crackle wrote: »

5 mins? Just watched it on YouTube and what I saw was Drogba run to Cech, Luiz dropped to his knees praying, several players ran to the fans and within 20 seconds of the ball hitting the back of the net the picture above happened.

Wrong, Drogba ran over to strangle Cech, Luiz was on his knees praying that all the other players would collapse, and the rest ran away because they didn't want to lift the trophy...........
Or.......and its just a thought.....maybe it was a moment of unbridled joy for the lads and they didn't have a clue what to do and just went f*cking mental instead.

Can't believe some folk are now onto criticising the reactions of the players 2 to 3 seconds after winning the biggest game of their careers,
What next, are they going to get lambasted for celebrating a victory in penalties when any true and classy team would have been devastated not to win in 90 minutes.
Or maybe Lampard going into the Chelsea crowd, obviously just inciting them, maybe the victory parade is just an attempt to rub the victory in Spurs face and no once at the club really wants to be there, maybe the celery throwing is classless, maybe the players should have been more restrained in celebration in front of the home Bayern fans...
So many details which prove what a classless lot we all are, both the CFC players and us, the supporters!

kitakyushu

niallo27 wrote: »

Did Chelsea defend that well last night though, they did get some great blocks in at time but they have up a lot of chances to Munich, I would say Munich only scoring once had more to do with Munich being wasteful than chelsea's brilliant defending. I though Luiz looked out of his dept out there.

It's interesting that when quality teams (as opposed to say San Marino or Andorra) defend in numbers like this how the opposition often ends up screwing up chances that you'd have expected them to score or at least get on target on another night.

I suspect that beyond the obvious factor of the extra numbers back that this overpopulation in the box actually conditions attacking players to snap at all chances rather than just taking the extra split-second they might have taken under normal game conditions. The net result is the losing team then look "wasteful" and the winning team "lucky". It's clearly effecting them psychologically on some level as Robben and Messi both messed up penalty kicks normal play.

It's interesting that in the last number of years defense in numbers has offered ridiculous trouble to teams trying to play through it. Like most tactics I'm sure someone is going to find a way to crack teams who choose to play this way.

Sgt Pepper 64

niallo27 wrote: »

Did Chelsea defend that well last night though, they did get some great blocks in at time but they have up a lot of chances to Munich, I would say Munich only scoring once had more to do with Munich being wasteful than chelsea's brilliant defending. I though Luiz looked out of his dept out there.

hilarious post as always Nialoo

niallo27

jive wrote: »

They were already winning but that goal put them through. Barca still had 5 or so minutes to get 1 goal and they were going through. When he got the goal it put the tie to bed.

You fail to mention who won the corner last night that Drogba scored from. I'll give you a clue though, it was a result of some direct attacking play from a former Liverpool player. Torres had more than a bit part to play in getting Chelsea to the final, I think he had 3 goals and ~5 assists.

Anyone know if Anelka gets a winners medal? What's the criteria for getting one? He only moved in January didn't he? Think he played a few group games. Handy aul winners medal if he gets one :pac:

That goal didn't put them through though, it might have put the tie to bed yes but they were already through, it was scored in 91st min as well and there was only 3 mins injury time, I like torres i want to dislike him but i cant, but torres has been a disaster for chelsea and lets not pretend otherwise.

CSF

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

niallo27 wrote: »

Did Chelsea defend that well last night though, they did get some great blocks in at time but they have up a lot of chances to Munich, I would say Munich only scoring once had more to do with Munich being wasteful than chelsea's brilliant defending. I though Luiz looked out of his dept out there.

hilarious post as always Nialoo

To be fair, he is pretty close to the mark with that analysis

niallo27

I owed willmunny 50 quid from a bet i lost to him and he told me to give it to charity rather than himself, so that was very decent of him, the chelsea boys aren't that bad after all i suppose.:D

Sgt Pepper 64

CSF wrote: »

To be fair, he is pretty close to the mark with that analysis

oh behave!

adox

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Are you still banging on about JT and comparing him with roy "ends your career and walks out on his country" squeaky clean Keane?!! Oh the irony

Who's career did Keane end?

PeterTwo

adox wrote: »

Who's career did Keane end?

adox

PeterTwo wrote: »

Thanks for posting that but my question still stands.

jive

adox wrote: »

Thanks for posting that but my question still stands.

Håland later implied the foul from Keane to be the root cause of his retirement as he never played a full match again

Happy Monday

adox wrote: »

Thanks for posting that but my question still stands.

He ended the careers of all those duds he bought for Sunderland and Ipswich.

RasTa

Now back to making fun

Sgt Pepper 64

At least Barca and RM have some class, unlike some posters on here!

Barca's official Twitter feed read: "Congratulations to @chelseafc for their first title in the Champions League!"
Defender Gerard Pique wrote: "Congrats to Chelsea! The new Champions League winners!", while president Sandro Rosell said "Congratulations to Chelsea, champions of Europe".
Meanwhile, Sergio Ramos was delighted for his Spain team-mates Juan Mata and Fernando Torres, who enjoyed their first taste of glory as European club champions.
"Congratulations to two good friends @juanmata10 and F.Torres. Congratulations winners .. ! Also keep your head up Robben," Ramos wrote.
Xabi Alonso, however, was engrossed by the occasion: "Football drama II. Congrats Chelsea. Sorry for Bayern."

Giggsy11

RasTa wrote: »

Now back to making fun

Zebra3

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

At least Barca and RM have some class, unlike some posters on here!

What do you expect clubs who pay PR experts a fortune to do?

Berate Chelsea and ask questions about where their owner's money came from and how legit it is?