Chelsea vs Middlesbrough, FA Cup Final 1997 | FATV

76,000 at Goley today, a great occasion in a fabulous atmosphere. Well, let's take a look at the two Cup

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s, starting with Chelsea, who line up there with Norwegian K Grash in goal, Steve Clark in central defense along with Cackler B and place two for Scott MTO and for Eddie Newton in midfield, as expected, is the new ball of the year. Zola on Hughes up front, most of the pre-match attention for Middlesboro was of course focused on Ell's physical struggle and, with her back problem sufficiently alleviated, she takes his place up front in the other. The main foreigners in the bar Fester and the Brazilians Emerson and Jun, of course, both start the defense.

BR Robson has chosen Blackmore and Fleming as the two full-backs outside of the two centre-halves Fester and captain Pearson. There is no place for the Danish international back then Phil Sta is included in Midfield with Beck, one of the substitutes, here is Juninho, Chelsea turned to Deo. He's doing an angled R in front of him, he opened up some space and scored a goal. Oh, fantastic start. Roberto Deo in 45 seconds. Well, that was an incredible goal endorsed by MSRA. He went and backed away and Te Mato kept running with the ball and

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ly the only option was to shoot and what a shot it was, just look at how much time he has with the ball, it's a simple pass for him, look up. run with it, there's an open space and Ben Roberts will really be disappointed because it went into the center of the goal just over his head, but it went down.

V brutally ever also posed a challenge, if you can, there are viers Fester a good block that by Dennis Wise here is the staff if the whistle blows it will not count the header sent to the corner but the assistant referee was pointing on the other side now Newton To take it on he has Petrescu in front of him and Hughes this is Petrescu and Zolo is everything Eddie Newton has achieved the second for Chelsea and surely now the cup is his Eddie Newton, the man who in '94 gave away a penalty when Mattis United broke into the win, well today it's a different story a big smile from Newton as Chelsea To Ryan Robson's dismay they extended their lead well, it was a very well worked goal wasn't it?

I mean, and Z's pass with the outside of his foot to Newon was exceptional, another down day for them in this extraordinary season. That's it, the FA Cup belongs to Chelsea and their 26-year wait for a major trophy is long over. Dream end to Rud Hit's first season as manager as he becomes the first foreign manager to win a major English trophy. Well, this is all about the effort cup. and he'll hand it over in a moment or two to Dennis Wise and he's a jolly little character and he'll love this moment. Well, he's one of the smallest to ever lift a trophy.

It may be too much for him, it better not be. Give it a moment, Dennis, to put it away. He remembers 94, when he was on the losing side. Steve Clark, what a fitting end to your 10 years of service at Chelsea. Marcus, well, he's seen it all before, but this will mean as much to him as all of those. previous successes I'm sure, and behind him Frank Leber Eric Canar of course the Frenchman who won the cup for Manchester United last season, now another Frenchman on the winning side and there is no doubt that Ray that day were the best team overall, no.

Certainly, if they deserved it, I thought they would have won it more comfortably than they did with the amount of possession they had. Middlesboro really only had 20 minutes of the second half of the first half and apart from that Chelsea were in control and during I definitely deserve the trophy, Chelsea's FA Cup winner in

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, thanks to Ray Clemens and Peter Brackley for the match comments. What a huge contrast of emotions! Middlesboro is the first English team to reach both national cup finals and lose both. The remodeled Chelsea under Rud Hullet have won theirs. second FA Cup and they qualify Steve Bruce for the Cup winners cup which is a great achievement for Rudit in his first season as manager yes a fantastic achievement by them and I will add my congratulations because they definitely got a flare and a strut around them, which builds a lot of confidence and I'm sure they will perform well on the European stage next season.

What's up with Brian Robson and Middlesboro? Well I mean your heart goes out to them in two Cup finals and being beaten and relegated too what a drastic end to the season we promise so much let's just hope it can all come to a standstill and then continue from here