It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

well done City - definitely the team that deserved it this season and why, oh why, couldn' Bolton wrap up the perfect ending ?

Missed the games but what a finale......couldn't have written the script better....well done ManCity....time Uefa made exceptions to the rule so that a fith team can enter the champions league if Chelsea win......we had that with Everton a few years ago....rule should apply to all nations of course and only if a finalist winner hasn't qualified for the champions league for the following season.....so most seasons just four would be entered....

Had a weird dream the night before last....it was halftime and Juventus were either 4-nil up or they were four nil down...and it was snowing.....bizarre....

Barton well deserved the punishment in the end but how comes the assistant ref did not see Tevez land the first blow - and get away with it - only mentioned once in commentry

Dalglish gone http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18073446

Good day to bury news- good and bad depending on your viewpoint.

Crikey !!!....a League cup win....FA Cup finalist......what have you got to do to remain manager of Liverpool ?......sleep with the directors daughters ?....or something else....seriously...I thought King Kenny had done rather well......Liverpool style of old was coming back.....

Glad Andy Carroll is picked......might just get a few goals with that very sharp, powerful approach to the game of his !....

RF - King Kenny my arse, (personally I was hoping they would keep him on) poor signings, finishing 8th behind Everton. How much did he pay for that donkey Carroll again? Backing that knobhead Suarez. And lets get it right 120 minutes of football and won the Carling Cup because a reletive of Geraldine missed a penalty, Liverpool style of old don't make me kin laugh!

Touched a raw nerve it seems....I'm impressed with Carroll...he needs somebody to give him some ammunition but he looks good to me....I wish Rooney would somehow be a mixture of a forward and a midfielder for the England side because he's very good at assists.....his forced rest might just do him the world of good !...

Well let's hope for Englands sake your right RF, I'm not holding my breath.

KK was brilliant for pool - lets hope they get the next best, AVB

Good luck Chelsea.....you can do it !....will have to watch Bayern at the start.....wonderful occasion.....might go to extra time....two exMarseille players in opposite lineups !....

Well done Chelsea !....at long last a London club has done it ...along with West Ham promoted...What a day...Bravo !....

More jam than Hartleys Rf, but have to say if you beat Barcelona and Munich away doesn't matter how, you deserve it. Hard to feel sorry when a English club beats a German team on penalties, fabulous! :O)

Yes, well done the "British" team :-)

A mate had a double bet on Chelsea and West Ham - I'm not sure at what odds, but I think a Sunday lunchtime pint is a certainty.

So did I....won on both.....only small amounts......shame for Spurs...hence the importance of awarding a fifth place or an extra place when this happens to a european country....Arsenal are probably now the biggest club in europe now never to have won this trophy.....anyway...at long last a London club wins it....rode their luck at times ...but it was destined to be Chelsea's year !...and beating a German side on penalties at home.....!...shades of Liverpool in Rome in 1984 !...

The earthquake in Italy partly explains my halftime dream....shattered tower...

absolutely brilliant and if you're going to beat the home team in their city, then Munich is certainly the place to be - very sporting supporters who were literally everywhere in their hundreds of thousands - everyone was decked in red and yet all were up for conversation and a laugh with their rivals for the day

Wouldn't happen in many other cities, and amazing that we still have an anti-german default position in the uk

To do with the second world war.....difficult to forget....but the German people are friendly.......they don't get so nasty like our lot when they lose.....anyway....just put a punt on England to win in Norway....not the force they were a decade or so ago...