Didier Drogba won the double for Chelsea with the only goal in
a quite remarkable FA Cup final.
Drogba's 37th goal of the season was a free-kick just before the
hour that found the net with tracer-bullet precision from 20 yards.
It maintained Drogba's impressive record of scoring in all six
competitive games he has played at the new Wembley and confirmed
Chelsea as only the seventh club to complete the league and FA Cup
double, a pretty significant achievement in Carlo Ancelotti's first
season in charge.
But that does not even come close to telling the story of a game
that saw Chelsea hit the woodwork five times before the interval,
including a terrible miss from Salomon Kalou, Kevin-Prince Boateng
fail to convert a penalty shortly before Drogba's winner that could
have set up a fairytale finish to a shambolic season of turmoil
at Portsmouth, and even Frank Lampard fire wide from the spot three
minutes from time.
Given the financial straightjacket they find themselves in, this
was likely to be Pompey's last major final for quite some time.
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