Blue is the colour, football revenge is the game

Irrespective of being served like gazpacho soup, Chelsea have got their own back against Barcelona.  The robbery at Stamford Bridge in 2009 has been avenged.  The one difference in 2012 is that Chelsea have lost so many players to suspension and possible injury, the team they will face in the final, be it Real Madrid or Bayern Munich, will have to caution themselves against complacency.  Then again The Best Team In The World® couldn’t put away sufficiently at home an opposition who played for nearly an hour with ten men and without any recognised centre-halves for just as long.  And to have it capped off by a Fernando Torres goal – how embarrassing!  When was the last time Barcelona lost three times in a week (I know this was technically a draw but it would feel as numbing as any defeat for a blaugrana fan)?  The hubris of the Barcelona-mad press has been laid waste.  Oh well Fabregas, you can console yourself with trying to win the King’s Cup with your boyhood team (the SuperCup and World Club Championship were involved only on the back of what his teammates did the season before in winning the Champions League) – that’s what you always dreamed about when you left Arsenal, wasn’t it?