“Older, experienced” veterans won Chelsea 2012 Champions League says star player of that team | OneFootball

We’re trying to distract ourselves from the nightmare at Chelsea right now, with our owners having sacked their latest manager midway through a season which promised so much.

Legendary defender looks back on best night

Nostalgia is always a faithful friend in these circumstances, and we’ve luckily got an interview with Ashley Cole about one of the best nights of our lives to remind us of the good old days.

Cole was incredible against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final in 2012, and he spoke to Tribal Football about it.

“We were older, experienced, and had learned from past losses – especially the final in Moscow in 2008. Many of us felt this could be our last chance. On paper, we weren’t the strongest team, but we had characters who could fight, adapt and give everything. We knew we could go to war together.”

“My performance that night [against Bayern in Munich] was probably one of my best in a Chelsea shirt, alongside the other defenders and Petr [Cech],” Cole said.

“To win the Champions League for the first time, in Bayern’s stadium, after chasing it for so long – it’s hard to describe. To be part of that elite group, and to do it with teammates I’d shared so much with, was incredibly special.”

If only we had that sort of older, experienced, veteran players in the squad now, they might be pretty handy. We wonder if our recently departed manager would have argued that? We suspect he might.

In other news…

Calum McFarlane took the press conference yesterday and was confronted by a lot of questions about whether he actually knew the first team players. The whole thing was a disgrace.

The McFarlane was also embarrassed by questions about his pass that lets him into the training ground. What a nightmare situation.