A day after their final game of the season, Chelsea held their open-top bus parade to celebrate winning the Premier League an the Capital One Cup and it proved rather eventful.
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Giddy Frank Lampard and Sad Steven Gerrard both score in their final Premier League match
After years of highlighting and comparing their incompatible brilliance, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard have both ended their England careers and their careers in England this season. Both signed off from the Premier League with a goal in their final match before heading to MLS, but the hugely different circumstances in which they scored and emotions on the day sum up their divergent experiences in the Premier League.
Didier Drogba gets carried off by his teammates in his final match with the club
Prior to Chelsea’s final match of the season, Didier Drogba announced that it would be his last with the club (as a player, at least).
“I want to play for at least one more season and in order to play more football I feel I need to go to another club,” he told Chelsea’s official website. “All the fans know my love for Chelsea and I hope to be back here in the future in another role.”
Drogba started Chelsea’s Premier League finale against Sunderland and, given the occasion, his teammates decided that he should wear the captain’s armband for it. Their show of love and respect for the 37-year-old striker continued when Diego Costa came on for Drogba just before the half hour mark and the other Chelsea players carried the slightly embarrassed Ivorian to a standing ovation.
Cristiano Ronaldo hints at starting a farm supply business with Carlo Ancelotti
Great coach and amazing person. Hope we work together next season. pic.twitter.com/HqHHGjGGUH
— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) May 23, 2015
Since Carlo Ancelotti delivered Real Madrid’s long awaited 10th Champions League title last season instead of this season, club president Florentino Perez is reportedly itching to sack him now. So after Real Madrid’s final match of the season — a 7-3 win against Getafe that left them just two points shy of Barcelona’s tremendous title winning campaign — Ancelotti revealed his feelings on the matter.
Xavi in tears after playing his final game at the Camp Nou
Having played more games and winning more trophies than any other player in Barcelona history, Xavi made his final appearance at the Camp Nou in Barca’s La Liga finale against Deportivo La Coruna.
DTotD: Player sent off for cynical challenge on football playing BBQ sauce bottle mascot
Central Coast Mariners held a testimonial for retiring captain John Hutchinson and the match included a mascot dressed as a BBQ sauce bottle, because why the hell not?
The sauce bottle weaved its way through a group of players loitering around the middle of the pitch to set itself up for a clear shot on goal, but Brent Griffiths cut the bottle down with a vicious tackle from behind. This earned Griffiths a red card. In a testimonial. Against a sauce bottle.
The match also included a ball boy in goal at one point and ended 12-5 in favor of Hutchinson’s team. The main takeaway from all of this, however, is that the world needs more footballing BBQ sauce bottles.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
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The very best pictures from Bayern Munich’s beer soaked Bundesliga finale
Bayern Munich have concluded the Bundesliga season with a 2-0 win against Mainz and their annual beer shower. They also set a few more records in the process.
Borussia Dortmund fans thank Jurgen Klopp with brilliant display
It’s been a strange and difficult season for Borussia Dortmund. Just three months ago, the players were trying to calm irate fans as the team sat at the very bottom of the Bundesliga table. But the final league match of the season — and Jurgen Klopp’s final home match with the club — proved to be a sentimental affair with a happy ending.
Football Shirt Friday: Bayern, Everton, Newcastle, and a special tribute to Xavi
Our first Football Shirt Friday went well, so let’s do it again. Here’s this week’s offerings…
Leicester City owners to buy a celebratory beer for every fan attending final match of the season
To properly celebrate surviving their first season back in the Premier League, Leicester City owners Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha will buy the first round of beers (or bottled water) for every fan in attendance at their final match of the season.