some more impressions from London

A Farewell present for "The Right One"

Additionally to the pictures I have took and already posted 2 weeks ago I uploaded a video clip from our impressions at Stamford Bridge, home pitch of Chelsea FC. The video clip was made right after the match against Blackburn Rovers. Although Chelsea finished the season on the 3rd position, they are not delighted by this result due to the huge financial investments and ambitions they started with. Luiz Felipe Scolari, who needed to clear the chair at the club in February 2009 after only 6 months in charge. However, they qualified for Champions League next year, but must play extra round before. The interim solution has been the head coach of Russian National Squad, Guus Hiddink. To be honest, my impression was that the Chelsea supporters felt in love with the successful dutch manager. Although they knew he signed up for a loan until the end of the season. The good connections to Chelsea chairman Roman Abramowitsch, who signed the dutch globetrotter for Russian National Manager were not enough to convince Guus Hiddink neither did the appeal by the supporters of the club. Besides, 2 weeks after our incredible stay Chelsea has won the FA Cup, the oldest national football cup in the world. So Guus Hiddink did not leave West London empty-handed.

Football Maniacs … Chelsea FC – Blackburn Rovers

There is Roman Abramowitsch, somewhere.

Due to my parents anniversary and my dad’s 50th birthday me and my family had been to London for a couple of days. You must know my family is a weird family. In a positive way of course. We are all football maniacs. I have never seen a family who is deeper into football accept us. My dad is the chairman of our home town football club Häsener SV. My Mom is treasurer at the club. Both of them are running the business mostly alone you can say. Although they are doing it nonsalaried. Yes, it is voluntary! Unbelievable! They invest every day almost 2 hours for the business of the football club. Honestly! They are the soul of the club and every single club member appreciates the work what they are doing day in day out. Therefore my brother and me thought let’s give them a present which they won’t forget for a while. You have to say my brother plays as well as I do in the first team of the football club! He plays center back and I play center mid. Further I am the captain of the team. Isn’t it a great family?! We are together every weekend; on the pitch! Anyway, back to the amazing present we have thought of. You must know I have been 10 months in Bournemouth, South East England last year and met a couple of new and great friends. I am still in touch with most of them. But one of them I am still really close to. We are calling every once a while. He is English and arranged 4 tickets for the Barclays Premier League. I told him I don’t care which match we will see if it’s at least Premier League. Yeah, the probably best football league in the world. At least the league where the most money is spend and nearly every match is sold out. Although the best players of the world were playing there. He did managed it to get tickets for the last home match of Chelsea FC. The club of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramowitsch, who almost lost 70 % of his fortune due to the financial crisis. What a shame! Anyway, we are going to see a live match at the home country of football. We were looking forward like we never did it before.