Chelsea FC’s FA Community Shield Loss Hurt

So day 2 of the Chelsea FC Wembley Weekend didn’t quite go to plan.

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The Ladies of Chelsea FC did the business on Saturday and won the first ever Women’s FA Cup final to be held at Wembley.

Hopes were therefore high that the men could do the Wembley Double and win the FA Community Shield against the latte and selfie loving Gooners on the Sunday.

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All the omens were in our favour so what could possibly go wrong?

It was the Champions of England against the winners of a cup competition.

Jose Mourinho had never lost against Arsene Wenger.

Arsenal had to sign our 2nd choice goalkeeper to help shore up their defence.

Having stayed in London I didn’t even have to get up at the crack of dawn to drive down for the day.

Hell, even the sun was shining down from a blue sky!

Feeling relaxed and positive I set off for The Green Man pub for some pre-match entertainment and to do my bit collecting for the Help For Heroes charity.

Two hours of bucket shaking and partaking in the ritual celery throwing later it was time to head back down the hill to the stadium, and oh boy, what a hill!

The irony of passing adult full kit Arsenal fans sing “Championnes” when they were only FA Cup winners merely heightened my confidence about the upcoming match. How could such delusion possibly beat the true Championnes!

Inside the stadium and the view from my seat was only spoiled by the red seats again, at least the Gooners would blend in!

As the stadium started to fill up the teams were announced and Chelsea FC fans showed our yet class again by giving rapturous applause when Petr Cech’s name was called out, before booing the rest of the Arsenal team of course.

Contrast that with the so called classy fans of Arsenal who persistently booed Cesc Fabregas, even though he left them 4 years ago, and not even to a direct rival!

During the warm up the players seemed relaxed, maybe Eden was a bit too relaxed?

And it looked as though Willian had his shooting boots on, just a shame he didn’t use them during the match!

One final photo was taken before the match started and it really hurt to witness it.

Petr Cech headed into the shadows wearing the number 33 and Fly Emirates on the shirt, although he got a rapturous welcome from all of us behind his goal, and he reciprocated with an equally warm round of applause. But it still hurt!

A full match report can be read here by our regular correspondent Joseph Williams so I won’t dwell on the match itself.

The pre-match mood of optimism basically lasted until Arsenal scored. The section of fans I was in was quite lively with several renditions of the Chelsea FC favourites ringing round, even if the football on show wasn’t really meriting it. Whilst it was obvious that there were a lot of non-regular match goers in our section they soon picked it up and joined in when encouraged!

Looking around at the desolate faces when the Ox scored a cracking goal was telling. Complete silence followed…this was not in the script!

Then Ramires inexplicably missed his header. Loic Remy for once stayed onside and flighted a perfect ball into an unmarked Ramires who did everything right except score! Petr Cech stood still as the Brazilian rose and guided it towards us in the opposite corner.

The issue was that the ball kept coming towards us and over the bar.

How did he miss!!!!

Into the second half the mood was significantly subdued as it became obvious that despite all our possession Eden wasn’t having a good game, Cesc Fabregas was having a nightmare, and consequently our creative intent was nullified.

The most telling incident came with Oscar’s free kick that Petr Cech managed to reach up into the top corner and save, hopefully not a sign of things to come!

As the final whistle blew I did something I’ve never done before, I immediately stood up to leave and didn’t look back at the pitch, I didn’t even stop to applaud the Blues players.

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That was the level of hurt I was experiencing at that moment.

Was it because I have got used to us winning all the time?

Have I become spoilt by our level of recent success?

Was it because my hopes were so high before kick-off?

Whatever it was, at that moment I had forgotten about all the bad times in the 1980’s, all the times I had witnessed my beloved Chelsea lose and play poorly yet again.

Momentarily I had forgotten our history.

During the slow trek back down Wembley Way towards the tube station the mood was solemn, a wall of royal blue clad fans all thinking the same: what had gone wrong?

What went wrong was that Arsenal are the new Tottenham Hotspur, a cup team. A team that can raise their performance on a single day, but not over the course of a season.

Chelsea’s 2nd choice goalkeeper proved that he too can drive a bus and park it in front of the Arsenal goal.

Arsenal wanted it more than the Blues on the day. They wanted it for their manager so he could finally win one against Jose Mourinho.

Well congratulations Arsene, you now have a win rate of 7% in meetings with Jose, but guess what?

You still have a 0% win rate when it really matters!

As that realisation started to dawn a familiar chorus broke out on the sun clad Blues fans still stuck on Wembley Way:

So that was Chelsea FC’s day out at Wembley, not a happy occasion, but memorable all the same.

In the bad old days we had a saying after yet another loss that is as true today as it was back then:

Onwards and Upwards

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