Well what can we say? After years of trying and billions of pounds later Rom has finally reached his holy grail with a flourishing and entertaining side too...wait...not quite.
'But we deserved it!' they cry, 'this was our destiny'. Bollocks! Yes football is a team game and protecting your end is just as important and laying siege to the mob at the opposite end. For this you cannot deny Chelsea's tenacity and drog-eness, but by heck it was dull!
UEFA are probably happy that it ended in a shoot-out as it meant we actually had more than a handful of shots on target and that most will not remember the turgid 80 odd minutes which preceded it. Any self-righteous football follower knows that if it weren't for a very un-German-esq performance from Bayern we'd all be slating Chelsea as lumbering route one no-hopers!
Bayern domintated the entire match in all departments; yet they were wasteful in front of goal, missed penalties, didn't defend a near-post corner with only minutes left and losing a shout-out! Its just not German like, in fact its down right English of them!
'Hide me! They'll take away my German passport for missing that pen!'
Of course all this was not just a path of destiny for the Blues, it was a mastermind of managment by the 3rd re-incarnation of the special one. Arise Sir Roberto! He's not the special one...he's a very lucky boy! And now he's the greatest manager that lived not just to win the European Cup so quickly but to do so with a squad that back in March would be lucky to get close to the cups in the training ground cafeteria!
Had they lost he'd probably of become another Avram Grant and end up in Portsmouth awaitng the news they'd been docked more points for not paying anybody who works for them! Or he could turn into a Hiddink and travel the globe earning shed loads of foreign tax cash with avergage teams built on oil soaked money...sound familiar RDM?
Will Roman offer him the job? Would he even take it? Now that he's found his promise land ..what next? He'll want to win the league, defend the cup and do it all playing an entertaining brand of footy which I fear neither squad or manager is up to.
In that case it might be a good time to cut and run? Drogba has the right idea on this one; leave a hero, head held high and with your wallet open.
A wave goodbye or I'll take £5 mil a year thanks!
So does this mean that a defensive, uncreative, long ball style can conquer Europe? If so then maybe there's hope for Roy this summer...er have you seen the squad!
Ok so it was all fairly predictable, yes I got a few wrong on my end but lack of enterprise is perhaps worse than a lack of surprises. The two best defences of the premier league belonged to City and United and yet Rio didn't get a gig (not a bad idea to be fair) and I wonder if Lescott will be sitting on the bench waiting for Terry to slip up...literally!
The middle is pretty much the same as we'd expect from what's on offer with the exception that Lennon is probably just unlucky that he's just a quick as a few others that perhaps can find the net or put in a decent ball, then again they picked Walcott?
Up front is where the issues are obvious, with Rooney out for the first 2 options were thin on the ground. Carroll probably deserves a crack at it, Welbeck has earned the right ahead of Sturridge, no idea what Defoe has done except score on the last game of the season...does Roy have a very short memory?
Surely the biggest injustice is poor old Micah Ricards? What does that man have to do to get another cap? Did he mysteriously slag off the FA on twitter before going radio silent or perhaps the powers that be know something we don't?
If the shirt fits then bloody well give it him!
Yes Kyle Walker would've got the nod if fit and Phil Jones is versatile if not a little overrated too. But Micah must be watching a tape of Liverpool's post-christmas matches and thinking he needs to both defend, bomb on, set up goals, be a menace at set pieces, keep goal and score bucket loads to even be considered!
Be just about right now that Glen Johnson has a blinding tournament and England do exceptionally well at the Euros...yeah and Chelsea will become the next Barcelona!
Goodnight sportsfans!
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