Chelsea are world champions in 2025.
Nobody gave them a chance to lift the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, but they believed in themselves, despite the odds stacked against them.
On a night many people gave it to PSG and only came to watch the Parisians roast and humiliate Chelsea, the club with the youngest squad came to the party.
They were just too good for PSG on the night and made PSG look too ordinary, and I doubt whether any of the naysayers will take anything away from “The Blues.”
To beat PSG 3-0 is comprehensive and overtly implies Chelsea were better than the Parisians, who were overconfident going into the game, expectedly, given the quality of opposition they brushed aside en route to the final.
One definitely felt for them because they came into the game with the mindset of winners, even before the kickoff, but got stung by Ice Cold Palmer and new boy Joao Pedro in the first half, and the match was over. The quality of the three goals was world-class.
Chelsea’s Maresca can even afford to say, “I want to go and rest for a year” before returning to coaching because it has been one fantastic year for him in London. Who would have thought he would steer the club to such a memorable campaign in his first season in charge? Many managers in England will surely envy him because they have nothing much to account for their years of stay in the EPL.
He won the Conference League in his first attempt, making Chelsea the first and only club to have won all UEFA trophies. If this is not enviable enough, then I don’t know what else should be.
The Italian followed it up with a Champions League slot after finishing 4th in the EPL before proceeding to the FIFA Club World Cup, where they emerged champions.
Those who questioned the pedigree of teams that Chelsea dispatched on their way to the final, what would they say now that the almighty PSG had been ruthlessly humbled?
Football is like a biscuit; you never can say where it will crack. Chelsea deserves their flowers, and it will amount to “bad belle” if anyone still downplays their superiority against PSG.
English fans, I guess, should be happy and congratulate Chelsea for saving their blushes. How would it have looked to say one club from France humbled all the big English names?
Manchester City was beaten, Aston Villa was also sent packing, and Liverpool and Arsenal were humbled before their fans, but Chelsea went away to the United States to salvage English pride.
The sky is obviously blue, and London is blue.
Is there any argument about the best club in London again?
