I'm looking forward to setting a month or so aside in order to go through it, though I have no expectation of ever quite getting over it…

I almost don't care that it is Chelsea, I would watch any team that had Hazard, Mata and Oscar in the midfield…

'A game of two halves,' people like to call football. Sometimes it's a game of two minutes…

It is certainly a glamour game, not only because it is a major European final…

That swan was dying for about 45 minutes. Howard Webb would never have stood for that…

If this game doesn't have at least a few goals and probably plenty of chances I will be amazed…

My German's not up to the mark but maybe these alterations could be made with a marker pen…

I would definitely choose the second European trophy over the second domestic one every time…

Those of us in Munich last May ended up having quite fond memories of all that nonsense…

A boring draw would suit me just fine on this occasion leaving the fireworks for a week later...

playing almost every other hour seems to be having a gelling effect…

We certainly deserved the opportunity of extra time at least, but maybe we just didn't create enough clear cut chances…

I'm assuming the club took advantage of this unexpected break to take the players off for a spell of warm-weather training…

If they keep up the work rate trying to outdo each other it will spur us on to greater things…