WILL IT BE ANOTHER BRIDGE TOO FAR?
Hearing Todd Boehly talk as he emerged from the pre-match lunch hosted by Real Madrid dignitaries for their Chelsea counterparts in the Spanish capital on Wednesday, you could have been forgiven for thinking the American billionaire had enjoyed one glass of sangria too many. Asked by a loitering reporter what he thought the score would be, Boehly bullishly announced: “Chelsea’s going to win 3-0.” It was a bold prediction and one he appeared to make without first consulting waiter-baiter and TV funnyman James Corden, before a game in which a team bottomed out on confidence and without a goal in four were due to take on the defending champions in their own Bernabéu building site. Madrid duly strolled to a comfortable 2-0 victory without really breaking sweat and the only consolation Frank Lampard and his players (all 58 of them) can take from yet another bruising experience is that their margin of victory was not so wide as to render the tie completely unsalvageable.
