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• What a fantastic piece of writing! I had to stop half way through reading it because I was crying!!!!!! YES I AM AN EMOTIONAL WRECK! But thank you for this, it really says what all Chelsea fans are thinking! Didier Drogba IS a Chelsea legend xxx

  • I just have something in my eye that’s all….

  • Thankyou very much – I watch the penalties every night and still cry!

• Bloody hell Trizia that’s a serious bit of writing, well done for expressing how so many of us feel about the man. No tears from me, just smiles as I remember the goals, the flamboyance, the intensity, the defending of corners, the tackling back at our corner flag – we’ll never see his like again!!!

  • Intensity is a great word for him – unique too – we will never see his like again

• Excellent tribute to a great man, how can you replace such a player as Drogba? we all know players move on but there will have be a special signing to replace Didier at Chelsea.
  Last time I felt like this about a player was when Zola left and not sure we ever really replaced him.
  These types of players are ‘one of a kind’ and we have been lucky to have some of them at Chelsea over the years.
  Thank you Didier for helping to bring home the biggest trophy in club competition, never thought I would see the day.
  Best wishes to you wherever you end up. Legend!

  • Just wished that Lukaku could have spent more time with Drogba

• An amazing man, and we were so lucky to have him for eight years. A good decision to now move on. Torres, we have a vacancy for our next legend…

  Strange, I suddenly have something in both eyes at the same time! Embarrassing, as I’m in Dusseldorf airport waiting to board a flight, with a row of Germans looking at me. If they only knew!

  • I too am so glad he went while at the top – a great way to remember him

• Drogs was by a long way the best striker we have had, full stop. I say this, not to belittle any of our other strikers but because in my opinion from the second season he was with us he was the best striker to have ever graced the Premiership. Such power, such mobility, such a range of passing, such a defensive stalwart.
  And yes, some times, such an actor. But lets face it most of it was aimed in one way or another at gaining Chelsea an advantage. And the rest of it? Well, with genius comes a hint of madness doesnt it? And dont we just bloody love him for it.
  Dont we just!

  • We bloody do – we are going to so miss him!

• Well done Trizia!
  It has been a source of eternal frustration for me that opinion about the Mighty Drog was so polarised among Chelsea fans(albeit between those who understand football and those who don’t). It was on the U-Bahn to the stadium on Saturday that I argued with someone who thought that Drogba could have been the best if “he’d wanted it enough” and who then went on to eulogise Alan ‘Bloody’ Shearer as an example of what Drogba could have been if he’d applied himself!
  In addition to the qualities you described so well, let’s not forget his extraordinary team ethic. I remember, in the early years, when he was rotated with Crespo that he was the first player to congratulate Crespo when he (Crespo)scored, sometimes haring towards him from the bench.
  Last season too, having been usurped ludicrously by Torres, who can forget him coming on as a late substitute then single handedly running down the clock near the corner flag for the last 9 minutes, seeing out the game against Man Utd. He had no urge to prove the folly of the Chelsea hierarchy’s decision making, by attempting to score himself. Only the team, the result, mattered!
  A player of supreme technical ability and tactical intelligence, he was in my opinion the greatest player in our history, an opinion born from fact when considering the salient role he played in the winning of so many titles in the most glorious period of Chelsea’s history.
  He scored in 9 finals and so many other key games when it mattered, when the team needed him. A true mark of greatness!
  I look forward in due course, to seeing his statue placed alongside Ossie’s, possibly a three-figure statue including JT and Lamps, the other 2 in Chelsea’s Holy triumvirate.
  What do you think?

  • I think that you are right and in this period of numerous trophies that we have enjoyed, that those three have been integral to all success – a statue would be amazing!!

• Oh, blimey, Trizia, just when I was starting to feel a little less emotional along comes this piece of fabulous prose. Thanks for encapsulating what the majority of Chelsea fans will sense, feel and know. I managed to speak with him once: such a gentle man and aware of what he meant to Chelsea fans. He was proud that he made us feel good and that he played with such fine players. Go well, Didier, as I know you will. Onwards

  • I too was fortunate to meet him on a couple of times and you are so right – he was so quiet and humble

• hear hear! Well put together article that sums up the feelings of all true blue supporters towards the legend that is Didier Drogba! how on earth are we going to replace him though???
  we all have a favourite Drogba goal but flippin heck there are so many to choose from but I would have to opt for the crucial 2nd goal he scored in April 2010 at old trafford against man utd which effectively put us in the driving seat for the title at the time! I remember the Chelsea section going bananas after he scored and it made my day on the way out after the game when I overheard utd fans moaning that he was offside which made it all the sweeter…anyways best of luck to the guy, he owes us and the club absolutely nothing, thats for sure! LEGEND!

  • Love it when he is at his most powerful and players are literally bouncing off him.

    A very hard act to follow

• Very well said. I think my tears are finally starting to dry up!

  Not to mention became the first African to score a goal against Brazil at a World Cup. Which he did with a fractured forearm.

  Guus was right when he said he was irreplaceable. The man is a modern a modern day gladiator.

  • Exactcly that – a gladiator!

• Amen

• I luv U Drogba,not only me,86% of Nigerian luv U ur skil,technic.but why did u do this dat’s my question? hw can we cop witout seing playing 4 chelsea why?

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