Exciting Weekend of Football

Over the course of this weekend, there have been 4 major finals, they were the Npower Championship Play-off final, UEFA Champions League, The Scottish Cup Final, the Blue Sqare Conference final, and of course the Copa Italia later on tonight.

 I will start with West Ham's 2-1 win over Ian Holloway's Blackpool at Wembley. West Ham took the lead through number 9 Carlton Cole on 35 mins, but to find that goal cut out via promising youngster Thomas Ince just after the break. I think West Ham's resolute defending earnt them the big prize, and Vaz Te sent the hammers into the Barclays Premier League. I hear many people saying that Blackpool deserved the win, but at the end of the day West Ham were 11 points ahead of the Tangerines, so thoroughly deserved promotion.

The Champions League final saw Chelsea take on Bayern Munchen at the Allianz Arena, and it was an incredibly close game. Muller opened the scoring on 83 mins, and I thought that would be the winner, but as usual, I was proved wrong. Didier Drogba (who else to score in a final) equalled the scoring, with a header from their first corner of the game on 88 mins, despite Bayern having about 16. The game then went to extra time, and Robben had his penalty saved by Cech in the early stages of extra time. Chelsea then went on to beat the German side 4-3 on penalties, and you can probably guess who scored the winning penalty, and no, it wasn't Torres. I was surprised that Bayern didn't win, but I suppose thats football!

The third final of the weekend was the Scottish Cup final between Hibbs and Hearts, the score ended 5-1 to Hearts, the score being 3-1 with only 48 mins played.

A place in the football league was up for grabs at Wembley as Luton took on York. It was a pulsating game, and a well fought one too. Luton took the lead inside the first 2 mins via Gray and the Yorkshire side looked like they hadn't woke up. In the 26th minute Chambers equalised to set the score 1 a piece. Then Blair scored to make it to 1 to York in the 47th minute, although there were hints that it was offside. All in all, a good day for the city of York, looks like Wembley is in the limelight again!

It was a great weekend for finals, and capped the 2011/12 season off, with and there are still a  couple more playoff finals to go.

Lets hope the Euros give us some entertainment, too.