Tomorrow - well, today now, the Premiership will be decided. If Manchester United slip up at Wigan and Chelsea win they will be champions. When I wrote about Chelsea at Xmas I said that it was time for the big players like Ballack to stand up and be counted.
Well, they did - they all did. With the exception of Shevy, all the Chelsea players have had some outstanding matches since Xmas and they have ground out result after result. Ballack has been brilliant and shown himself to be the leader we were told we were buying two years ago, Joe Cole was brilliant in Jan and Feb, Makele has stepped in and been brilliant, Carvalho has been player of the season and, even, Drogba has shown his true class in the big matches like Arsenal on Easter Sunday. In the last couple of weeks Terry and Ashley Cole have give performances to match their salaries.
The media are pretty down on Chelsea and talk of them as if they were George Graham's Arsenal. But they play as a team and fight harder than anyone gives them credit for.
I doubt they will get the Premiership but in Moscow on Wednesday week there will be more Chelsea players playing the final big match of their careers than those at Manchester United. I have no doubts where I think that Cup is going.
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