FOOTBALL: COULD THIS BE THE BEGINNING?

The Three Musketeers of chelsea are the reasons to me for their beautiful flow of football this season. early morning's victory in old trafford brings chelsea into the final of the league cup, their first major booking into a final in all 4 competitions. could this be the beginning?







the three musketeers are now looking far more convincing than the three galaticos of beckham, figo and zidane. yes, these three musketeers as i will call them are the reason for chelsea's form this season. duff and robben are probably the best wide-men in the whole league and perhaps, dare i put it, europe. lampard's command in central midfield is also the best we have seen this season. i already gave an early warning early in the season last year when i watched all 3 of them performing. i predicted that money can buy success just by looking at their performances.

i could be wrong, it is still early to determine the winners of all 4 competitions, but the form and injury free of all their players suggest so for now. the matches between chelsea and barcelona will convince me the statement. i am looking forward to both legs. barcelona did reinforce their squad with maxi and albertini. i have yet to witness their ability, but very soon anytime this weekend.

for the premier league however, a little bit of history will be interesting. if chelsea can manage to win the crown this season, it will be nice because they are celebrating their 100 years anniversary since the club was formed in 1905. they won their only previous league title, the old first division championship in 1954-55, exactly 50 years after their formation. now here they are, a further 50 years on, homing in on their second – which would also be their first premiership crown. interesting right?

although chelsea did not win anything last season under ranieri, their second place in the epl and being semi-finalist in the champions league is a good enough indication that they are not performing too badly under abramovich's first season there. before ranieri, we should not forget about vialli, who helped chelsea win the league cup and the cup winners' cup in 1998, the super cup in 1999 and the fa cup with the charity shield in 2000. far more earlier than vialli, we remember ruud gullit, but he only gave the club the fa cup in 1997. those period of time we see zola as the trademark of chelsea. far more earlier than gullit was hoddle who left to become england manager in 1996. i don't think he brought any honours to chelsea.

of course, history is far more than that for a club that is formed since 1905. the only question that we all want an answer is:

could football be all BLUE this season?