{"id":360,"date":"2009-05-31T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-05-31T01:57:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:57:08","slug":"fa-cup-final-live-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"F.A Cup Final 2009: Chelsea vs Everton Live Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have nothing better to do, I&#8217;ll be live-blogging the FA Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of history:\u00a0 Staying up late in New Zealand to watch the 1991 FA Cup Final between Spurs and Forrest was what made me become a fan of football in the first place.\u00a0 Other than the Westham\/Liverpool final which was exciting but was still completely terrible, no other final has lived up to that first one for me.<\/p>\n<p>Lets see how Everton vs Chelsea goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>0 min<\/strong><br \/>\nAnnouncer:\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen, Kofi Annan is here!<br \/>\nCrowd:\u00a0 BooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOoo<br \/>\nLol.<\/p>\n<p>SBS commentators are predicting this game will be very defensive and dull as shit.\u00a0 Way to boost the ratings and hype the game guys.\u00a0 Last two encounters have been scoreless draws.\u00a0 Great.\u00a0 This will probably be a snoozer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 min<\/strong><br \/>\nGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLLLLL<br \/>\nHOLY FUCK<br \/>\n26 seconds &#8211; fastest cup final goal ever<br \/>\nEverton up 1-0.\u00a0 An upset on the cards?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Anelka has a go.\u00a0 Gets nothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 min<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll see:<br \/>\n<strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-367\" title=\"everton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/everton1.png\" alt=\"everton\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/everton1.png 510w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/everton1-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Essien blazes it over the bar!\u00a0 Wheeee&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>20 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Everton defence looks pretty tepid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>GOAL.\u00a0 1-1.\u00a0 Drogba heads it in from the cross.\u00a0 He was the only Chelsea player in the box against 5 Everton players.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators seem incredulous at how interesting the game has been so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Weak shot by Malouda.\u00a0 Chelsea are controlling the game now though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lol, weak penalty appeal from Anelka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Drogba goes down, ref doesn&#8217;t care, Everton fluffs the counter attack and then Cashley blasts it over the bar at the other end.\u00a0 Games opening up but the quality isn&#8217;t great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>45 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Last corner for the first half doesn&#8217;t amount to anything. 1-1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>55 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Chelsea are so going to win this<\/p>\n<p><strong>59 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Anelka aaaalmost scores, attempting a lob over Howard<\/p>\n<p><strong>68 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>Man, Everton can&#8217;t cross for shit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>72 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>GOAL\u00a0 2-1 to Chelsea.\u00a0 Lampard slips, recovers and then fires a shot in from outside the box.\u00a0 Everton look done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>78 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>GOOA-no, really?\u00a0 That looked like Malouda&#8217;s shot crossed the line.\u00a0 Drogba might be hulking up again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>85 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>I always wonder why some sports announce a man of the match before the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>95 min<br \/>\n<\/strong>All over.\u00a0 Chelsea 2-1.\u00a0 Game was alright but all the best bits were in the first 30 minutes.\u00a0 Everton only played out there for 60 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have nothing better to do, I&#8217;ll be live-blogging the FA Cup final. A bit of history:\u00a0 Staying up late in New Zealand to watch the 1991 FA Cup Final between Spurs and Forrest was what made me become a fan of football in the first place.\u00a0 Other than the Westham\/Liverpool final which was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[159,111],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-fa-cup-final","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}