Chelsea take a team photo with their first Champions League trophy.
That’s the cap of an exceptional 2011/2012 season in European football that has had all the drama of an episode of Game of Thrones, but with the class and elegance of Downton Abbey, but fret not football fans, as Euro 2012 is just around the corner.
Another shot of Drogba’s sublime winner while concerned Bayern Munich fans look on.
And that’s it, Chelsea are crowned Champions of Europe. After 120 minutes of stalemate, Chelsea pulled it out in penalties.
As a bonus a fake streaker jumped on the pitch.
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Early in stoppage time Didier Drogba brought Franck Ribery down in the penalty area, but Petr Cech saved Arjen Robben’s penalty kick keeping it all level. It remains 1-1 with just 10 minutes of stoppage time left.
Thomas Müller put Bayern ahead in the 83rd minute, but Dider Droba was released and evened up the score, extra time kicks off in just seconds.
Don’t ever pick your nose if you can afford to sit in the first few rows at a sporting event, you’ll surely get caught.
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Lineups, courtesy of FourFourTwo/Opta. Only surprise is Bertrand.
One hour to kickoff, the question is the usual one: WHO YOU GOT?
Today’s Champions League final has some huge implications for Chelsea. Missing the Champions League next season would cost Chelsea roughly €25 million (based on figures found in UEFA Direct 110) not to mention the additional revenue ticket and merchandise sales would bring in. The biggest change though could be the changes Roman Abramovich decides to make.
It’s no secret Roman’s number one goal for a while has been the Champions League. They’ve shown they can win any number of domestic trophies under his ownership, but the Champions League has always eluded him. That’s why he’s had a revolving door of managers ever since he let go of his greatest hope to win the Champions League, Jose Mourinho. Losing out on the Champions League could very well mean that Roberto Di Mateo’s excellent run as interim manager would come to an end, and there would likely be wholesale changes at Stamford Bridge as he’d be looking to find the magical players to solve all of his problems.
A second rate tournament is not where a billionaire wants to be, and the offseason would get mighty interesting if that were the case.
Twitter said activity during the game — a 2-2 draw that saw Chelsea progress to the final after winning the first leg in London 1-0 — peaked at 13,684 messages per second. That beat out the previous record for a sporting event, the 12,233 tweets per second during the climax of February’s Super Bowl between the NFL’s New York Giants and New England Patriots, which saw New York win 21-17 after scoring a touchdown with less a minute remaining.
Apoel Nicosia v. Real Madrid
to play the winner of
Olympique du Marseille v. Bayern Munich
AND
Chelsea v. Benfica
to the play the winner of
Barcelona v. AC Milan
Thoughts?
Chelsea face a very large turning point in their season tonight as Napoli head to Stamford Bridge this evening. They’re down 3-1 in the tie, but do hold an ever valuable away goal. A win here would make them the only English team in the quarter-finals and could help to boost their spirits in the battle for 3rd or 4th in the Premier League. A loss would only serve to batter their souls even further in what has been a very disappointing season for the Blues. The plus side for non Chelsea fans is that we could end up with outbursts like the one above, and who doesn’t love a good .gif?
![John Terry will be criminally charged with a “racially aggravated public order offense”.
This is in direct result of the action during Chelsea’s controversial and highly-charged defeat at Loftus Road back in October. Terry is alleged to have called Queen’s Park Rangers Anton Ferdinand a “black [rhymes with “runt”] during a row over a red card.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwk6g65jiZ1qc88aro1_500.jpg)
John Terry will be criminally charged with a “racially aggravated public order offense”.
This is in direct result of the action during Chelsea’s controversial and highly-charged defeat at Loftus Road back in October. Terry is alleged to have called Queen’s Park Rangers Anton Ferdinand a “black [rhymes with “runt”] during a row over a red card.
The perfect Christmas present for Rog?
Andrew P. writes, “May I present The John Terry action figure! This guy can even speak! Unfortunately, you must be 18 years or older to purchase since the content can be quite offensive. All for the low price of $14.99! Order yours NOW!!!!”
That perfect present for the Chelsea fan in your life.
(Source: meninblazers)
