Was Chelsea winning the 2012 UCL the best Cup run in history?

It was magical.

It was also something the rest of the EPL could probably learn from

>>75695499
Monaco 2004 was absolutely amazing. Two seasons before, the team was fighting against relegation in France. Team was full of good french league players, not even french NT players. Their star striker gets hurt and ruled out for the season. And then…

>8-3 against Depor in group stage
>play galactics' Real Madrid in 1/4, lose 4-2 in madrid, still go through
>play Makelele's Chelsea in 1/2, who had spent a historical amount of money in transfers that year, still go through (5 goals in 2 games)

Shame they lost in the final. It was the greatest run I ever saw in the CL.

>>75695499

Most definitely, especially Brana in the Napoli game. I miss that team. No passion in our squad now.

Bretty gud. Liverpool's was even better I thought, and United in 99 was also up there. English teams tend to do it this way

Goes to show how intangibles/mojo can take you a long way in this sport

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>>75695499
Probabaly was mate, in the last 10-15 years anyway

More importantly it gave us some legendary memes

>hopesanddreams.banner
>JTCelebrations.jpeg

>>75695499
>shitty russian billionaire team winning UCL
Football died that day

Barcelona was unstoppable in 2015

>>75699127

>Paris without Ibra and Verratti
>Buyern without Alaba, Robben, Ribery and a handicapped Lewandowski

United 99 was better imo

>Finish 2nd in a group with Bayern and Barca
>Face Inter, Juve then Bayern in the knockouts
>Clutch as fuck all the way through
>Won two other trophies while doing it

Bearing in mind English football was not taken seriously in the footballing world back then.

Nothing magical about an oil money club

Best cup run in history? They're possibly the worst champions in recent memory

Embarrassing

>>75699977
>Zlatan "10 goals in 40 cl knockout games" Ibrahimovic
He's missing every game it seems

>>75700045
Every club is an oil money club

>>75695499
As far as comeback runs come Liverpool 2005 is the biggest one by far. No-one expected Liverpool to come back from 3 goals behind against the best team of that decade

As far as the best cup run in history 1993-94 Milan in CL was pretty good hammering Barca in the final 4-0

Also
>Best cup run to end with a defeat
1992-93 Milan
>Only 2 goals conceded throughout the whole competition
>one by Romario vs PSV
>one in the finale against those doping cunts Marseille by Boli

>>75700063
Every club is about money but not every club is owned by russian oligarchs

>>75700063
>this flag
>this post

Just go to bed you stupid cunt.

>>75700140
Liverpool just scraped through the group stage, too.

>>75700015
>Bearing in mind English football was not taken seriously in the footballing world back then.

It is now?

>>75700045
>>75700052
Sour grapes.

>>75695499
No just plastic

>>75695499
Yes. The fairytale of a poor club, led by a humble Russian coal miner, with local London lads like Drogba and Torres leading the way.

>>75700272
Amazingly it was even worse than it is now.

>>75700301
Blackburn winning the PL in 95 tells you all you need to know really. The level of competition in top flight English domestic football at the time must have been atrocious. Not to mention England didn't qualify for World Cup '94.

>>75695499
>It was like something out of a fairy tale
With the fairy godmother being a billionaire russian oil baron.

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>>75695499
No one remembers this niglet diving at every chance he got?

>>75700324
>The level of competition in top flight English domestic football at the time must have been atrocious
it was about the same as other leagues at the time

>>75700015
Yes it was. Pacenogs and intensity is always fearful to other teams, just that your football is shit and still is.

Yes, I'd only compare it to Jose's wacky run in 2010

>>75695499
Red star senpai

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>>75698086
>Liverpool's was better
Disgusting

The mighty Ajax of the season 1994-1995 was great football.

Also the 1995-1996 when they beat MAdrid was their apex as a team

>>75700052
t. spud

Chelsea was one of the greatest runs for sure.

All the legends scoring in the Napoli game, Ramires chip, Torres scoring to kill the game, Drogba header, Cech save, everything.

>>75699977
LCIM was off form and Memebery wasnt even playing that season.

>>75700500
Wasn't that the season where he stopped diving and became top-scorer of all time?

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>>75695499
Best colony gets it, this is why Chelsea are /ourguys/
>that torres redemption arc
probably the best single moment on /sp/

>>75700763
Fuck you João

>>75700324
They had one of the biggest transfer budgets that season you chink

>>75695499
Yes. You forgot the best part.
>Kept Tottenshits out of the CL for another year even though they finished 4th in the league
Absolutely fantastical day.

>>75705802
t. Brazil immigrated nazi

>>75704510
>Triggered
Be glad he didn't bring up 2016

>>75695499
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>>75700015
Chelsea 2012 will always be superior:

>realistically, the last chance for the old spine of Terry, Lampard, Cech, Drogba to win it
>beat Barca on the way, revenge for the infamous refball match
>centreback pairing of David Luiz and some random English lad by the name of Gary Cahill who was signed from Bolton 5 months before the final
>no Terry
>no Ivanovic
>Ryan Bertrand playing on the wing
>Bosingwa at RB
>Drogba's last ever game (at the time) for Chelsea
>Drogba with ANOTHER goal in a final, this time the biggest final ever
>Drogba's last ever kick for Chelsea (at that time) was the penalty to win the CL
>Drogba takes the 5th penalty like he would've against United had he not been sent off, and
>first ever CL trophy for Chelsea
>>kek'd London rivals out of the Champions League

All with an interim manager who can't even manage a Championship side.