I shall never drink Carling again!

Too many cliches occur and block my efforts to express the feelings and experience of Sunday's narrow defeat: roller coaster, passion & pride, sick as a parrot.

Suffice to say the boys done good and we're proud of them. Or to use Harry's exact words: 'I'm well pleased with the lads.'

This is all apart from:

a) Pav's free kick (nyet, nyet, I take, I am striker, look.... Chyort voz'mi! I hit big screen)
b) Bentley's penalty. He can put a ball in a skip from a hundred yards for a Rolex (see below) but can he hit a sodding barn door or Ben Foster from 12? The answer is no.

It was actually quite emotional. Most fans stayed to cheer the players when they went up for their medals (compare Chelski fans last year who were heading back to the Bridge before the final whistle blew) and there was none of the churlish 'I didn't care about this mickey mouse cup' attitude that I remember from '82 when Liverpool beat us. At the end of that game we sang 'Stick your milk cup up your arse'. It was a bigger trophy in those days too.

Final Whistle

Warning: may contain agitated swearing

No apologies for the shaky camera. I was a bit excited.

ESOL works

One of the highlights for my boy was the interview with Ramos afterwards. Apparently he was asked for a comment and said in immaculate English: " Well, fans and err players very happy." (In a spanish accent)

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Of course I have a lot to say but for a ages I'm going to be too tired to properly express how good that victory was yesterday. I was last at Wem-ber-ley 25 years ago. It's good to know it still makes your knees go 'all trembley' not to mention everything else. Anyway, sometimes other people say it a lot better than I can and, as a neutral, present a much stronger case for the deservedness of Spurs win.

Phil Mcnulty at BBC sport says:

Chelsea, the team and their supporters, were subdued throughout and it was only a basic fighting instinct of players such as Petr Cech, John Terry and Ricardo Carvalho that kept them in the game until extra-time.

Didier Zokora should have prevented the need for extra-time, but the anxious wait appeared to make the win even sweeter for the Spurs hordes, who provided the sort of backing their team deserved.

So, what he's saying is that we were the better team and had better fans. I couldn't agree more. Some do though: read full article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A32742551