The ghost goal CL semi final, and what entailed.

 

In the drivel I posted above I forgot to name two other teams/results that I feel need a mention.

For any true Chelsea fan...... any negative result against the No 1 enemy............ Tottenham Hotspur.

For family reasons and for someone born in Dagenham, ( sh*t happens!) .....any result that isn't a crushing beating  against, 'World cup winners'  (w**k) West Ham United.

I have never seen so many replica shirts around here before until those plums moved into the London Taxpayers Arena!.

Ironic really when you think most of these numbskulls have never stood in the North Bank at the Boleyn ground and seen players like Frank Lampard Snr, Billy Bonds, Trevor Brooking and Phil Parks play for them.

Yet I have and I don't even support them.

If we had beaten Juventus in November 2012, instead of losing 3-0 with the disaster where Hazard played as a false nine. Maybe Di Matteo could have stayed on had we gone through in the champions league, and in turn never had that fat bar steward Rafa Benitez as Chelsea manager.

Aside from the ones already posted here, I'll go for the 2002 FA Cup Final against Arsenal. Little 7 year old me was in tears after that one.

3 minutes ago, bluelion111 said:

Aside from the ones already posted here, I'll go for the 2002 FA Cup Final against Arsenal. Little 7 year old me was in tears after that one.

dude you have been found out now:

btw that was in 2009 :P

17 minutes ago, Joust said:

If we had beaten Juventus in November 2012, instead of losing 3-0 with the disaster where Hazard played as a false nine. Maybe Di Matteo could have stayed on had we gone through in the champions league, and in turn never had that fat bar steward Rafa Benitez as Chelsea manager.

As a manager I had no problems with Benitez. He took over our team and had us playing beautiful football with Hazard, Mata and Oscar. Plus we won the Europa Cup as well. 

My most painful memory is Iniesta lashing that ball in the top corner in the dying stages of that Champions League semi. With all the penalty injustices, and with everybody thinking there was no chance we could beat the "mighty" Barcelona... Man I wished we won that game. Back to back champions league finals it would have been. That draw hurt like no defeat ever has

3 hours ago, brownindian said:

As a manager I had no problems with Benitez. He took over our team and had us playing beautiful football with Hazard, Mata and Oscar. Plus we won the Europa Cup as well. 

No he didn't, he did a good job and got 3rd place and a trophy (that was the best that squad could have got) under difficult circumstances but he didn't have us playing great football.

3 hours ago, Coxy15 said:

My most painful memory is Iniesta lashing that ball in the top corner in the dying stages of that Champions League semi. With all the penalty injustices, and with everybody thinking there was no chance we could beat the "mighty" Barcelona... Man I wished we won that game. Back to back champions league finals it would have been. That draw hurt like no defeat ever has

Was Carlo confirmed by that game? I have wondered for a while what would have happened If Chelsea had won the cup that season, would Carlo have still come, or would Guus have stayed?

Moscow for me. Not only for us fans but for JT too. It would have been fitting and deserving that he slotted that pen home, just like it was for Drogba in Munich.

Plenty of others come close, 2 champions league semi final in particular.

8 hours ago, coco said:

The ghost goal CL semi final, and what entailed.

 

Indeed. Although I refer to that game as the 'Eidur missed sitter' semi.

3 hours ago, Argo said:

 but he didn't have us playing great football.

Maybe he is keeping the spirit of the thread and changed all the dour draws and pathetic CWC final result to wins?

definitely the terry slip. 

I agree, the CL final against Man Utd with the Terry slip is still painful

Definitely the title-winning game in 2009/10 where we beat Wigan 8-0. It sh*ts me our record is 103 goals instead of a perfect 100.

1972 League Cup Final at Wembley against Stoke City. George Eastham scored the winner in the second half as I remember. At 11 years old this was the first time I had been to Wembley and it was decades before I went back. As a kid it's difficult to look at things philosophically and you tend to dwell on the unhappiness that such an occasion can bring out. I remember the excitement of seeing all those Chelsea fans in the ground and joining in with the singing like never before. The highs were very high but the low of leaving the ground in silence with my Dad was stupefying.

My old man could nt split the 1967 FA Cup Final loss to Spurs and the 1972 League Cup Final loss to Stoke City.

That CL Semi Final in 2005 to 'that lot' is still a painful one.

Mind you when AC Milan were 3-0 at half time it wasn't as painful as it became at full time .

And they don't half go on about their comeback,still !

2 minutes ago, erskblue said:

My old man could nt split the 1967 FA Cup Final loss to Spurs and the 1972 League Cup Final loss to Stoke City.

The 67 loss to Spurs was just slightly before my time to appreciate it( only listened to the match on the radio as we were taking my Grandparents to Cleveleys for their holidays that day). The 72 loss to Stoke was my first defeat experienced in a final and felt bad as we were strong favourites for that game, only remember the highlights being shown on the tv. I'd add the FA Cup defeat to Man City in 1971 when we lost what was our first trophy in my Chelsea following days as being a result I felt quite a lot, this was of course tempered later in the season by beating them in the Cup Winners Cup.

Difficult to choose. In recent times it is a choice between the CL final in 2008 and the semi-final against Barca the year later. Was going to go to Moscow for the final but the cost even for a day trip was silly. Ended up watching the game in Lloyd's bar in Fulham Broadway Station. Have never seen so many depressed people in one place. As for the game against Barca, the angers among Chelsea fans and supporters that night has probably not been surpassed in recent times.

Going back either the semi-final against Sunderland in 1985. So close to a final at Wembley and the 1994 FA Cup final. Bloody Elleray. As I was at the game I asked my sister to record the game as my VCR wasn't working. She never offered me the tape as she knew I would chuck it in the bin. It was great going back to Wembley in 1997.

Chelsea 0-0 Norwich, 2014. Lamps deserved a better sendoff, I deserved to see a Chelsea win. Oh well, at least I got to see us mug Fulham in the youth cup a few nights later!

 

 

Tottenham 5-1 Chelsea in the League Cup in 2002(?), I'm not sure I ever quite got over that one.

22 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

Tottenham 5-1 Chelsea in the League Cup in 2002(?), I'm not sure I ever quite got over that one.

Hope this helped. 

 

@Charles Ryder That for me was revenge for that sodding League Cup final when we lost in extra time because the ball hit Jonathan Woodgate in the face and went in.

14 hours ago, bluelion111 said:

Aside from the ones already posted here, I'll go for the 2002 FA Cup Final against Arsenal. Little 7 year old me was in tears after that one.

Was going to say the same thing, though I cried and was 10 years old, my Grandpa found it funny, bless him.