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Grande impresa del Chelsea che ha rimontato la sconfitta di Napoli in Champions League per poi eliminare i partenopei nei supplementari (4-1 finale ). Grande il contributo della “vecchia guardia” che sembra maggiormente coesa sotto la guida di Di Matteo e che appariva,invece, abbastanza lontana dal precedente allenatore V. Boas. Terry, Lampard e Drogba sono stati tra i maggiori protagonisti della partita. Polemiche, a distanze di anni, sulla strage di Sheffield. Sebbene ormai sia evidente come la grande maggioranza delle responsabilità nella strage sia stata di chi gestiva l’ordine pubblico, nuove dichiarazioni incolpano la presenza di migliaia di fans del Liverpool ubriachi e senza biglietto. In misura minora questa appare essere stata, al limite, una concausa. In Scozia i Rangers, che grazie ad un cavillo tecnico legale potrebbero essere mai entrati in amministrazione ( una sentenza è attesa a giorni ), sono al centro dell’attenzione di una banca americana bilionaria. Il colosso a stelle e strisce starebbe cercando di rilevare la società a discapito del consorzio di D. Murray, dato da molti per favorito nel succedere al controverso Whyte.

Chelsea interim manager Roberto di Matteo praised his “incredible” players after they beat Napoli 4-1 to reach the last eight of the Champions League.

Branislav Ivanovic scored an extra-time winner to send the Blues through 5-4 on aggregate after Didier Drogba, John Terry and Frank Lampard had all scored.

“Some of the players couldn’t run at the end because they had cramp but they just kept fighting,” said the Italian.

“We knew it would take a lot to win but everybody was incredible.”

Trailing 3-1 from the first leg in Naples, Chelsea opened the scoring through Drogba’s header.

Terry nodded in Lampard’s corner to level the aggregate score before a Gokhan Inler half-volley restored Napoli’s advantage.

Lampard forced extra time with a penalty following Andrea Dossena’s handball, and Ivanovic smashed home on 104 minutes to win it.

Terry had spoken before the game of how it could become one of Chelsea’s great nights and afterwards he said: “This could top them all, for sure.

“The lads put in a great display, really solid, really resilient, with the firepower going forward.

“We proved we’re a team. That desire, that togetherness – we showed what Chelsea are made of.”

The draw for the quarter-finals takes place on Friday and Chelsea join Apoel Nicosia, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Benfica, Marseille, AC Milan and Real Madrid in the last eight.

The Blues have endured a difficult season, with manager Andre Villas-Boas sacked after the Premier League defeat by West Brom.

But they remain in contention for a top-four finish, the FA Cup and now the Champions League.

“It’s absolutely huge,” said Lampard. “It was essential we showed a desire and spirit to keep ourselves in the competition.

“It has been a difficult season but a performance like that tonight can change things for us so it’s important we go on from here.

“If we play with that ability and desire, we can take on anybody.”

At the final whistle, Di Matteo ran on to the pitch and embraced all of his players.

“It meant a lot for the club to still be able to play in the Champions League,” he added. “You could see how much it meant to the players.

“I think everybody was very happy and delighted that we managed to stay in the Champions League after putting on such a big performance tonight.

“I’ve had some great nights but I think it will probably go down in the club’s history.

“You saw the players tonight, how they performed.

“To have come back from a two-goal deficit from the first leg, they showed passion, that they care about the team, the club, the supporters. It gives us a big boost going forward.”

 

(BBC Football ) 

15 March 2012 Last updated at 18:07 GMT

By Jon Manel BBC Radio 4

Former PM Margaret Thatcher was told a senior Merseyside police officer blamed “drunken Liverpool fans” for causing the Hillsborough disaster, confidential government documents have revealed.

An official inquiry later found South Yorkshire Police’s failure to control the crowd was to blame.

Ninety-six football fans died after a crush on overcrowded terraces at an FA Cup Semi Final in April 1989.

The BBC has seen the leaked papers about Britain’s worst sporting tragedy.

Letters to and from 10 Downing Street and cabinet minutes that show what Mrs, now Lady, Thatcher was discussing and being told behind the scenes have been made public for the first time by BBC Radio 4’s The World at One.

For years, the families of those who died have been calling for the release of secret government and police papers relating to the disaster.

The government has agreed that this will happen.

The Hillsborough Independent Panel, set up in 2009, is reviewing hundreds of documents but they are not expected to be made available to the families of those who died or to the wider public until later this year.

It is thought there will be thousands of pages to sift through.

The most controversial issue in the papers that the BBC has seen relates to what Mrs Thatcher was being told about the views of some senior members of the Merseyside Police Force.

‘Deeply ashamed’

They are contained in a letter sent to the prime minister from a member of her policy unit in Downing Street. Four days after the disaster, the adviser attended a long planned meeting with the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, the late Sir Kenneth Oxford, and some of his senior colleagues.

It is important to bear in mind that this was written just days after the Hillsborough disaster and the views of the chief constable and those of his senior officers may well have changed over the subsequent weeks.

According to the letter, the Merseyside chief constable said: “A key factor in causing the disaster was the fact that large numbers of Liverpool fans had turned up without tickets.

“This was getting lost sight of in attempts to blame the police, the football authorities, etc.”

The prime minister was informed that a senior member of the Merseyside Police directly blamed supporters: “One officer, born and bred in Liverpool, said that he was deeply ashamed to say that it was drunken Liverpool fans who had caused this disaster, just as they had caused the deaths at Heysel.”

This officer is not named. Merseyside Police have declined to comment.

‘Truth must come out’

There is nothing in the documents the BBC has seen about any briefings from South Yorkshire Police. It is possible more will become known about that when many other confidential papers are officially released in a few months time.

Instead, we have learnt about the controversial views of some of Liverpool’s own senior police officers and how, just days after the disaster, they were being passed on directly to 10 Downing Street and to Mrs Thatcher.

A spokesman for the panel said it could not comment on leaked documents.

Other Downing Street papers seen by the BBC provide an insight into what the prime minister was saying and discussing with her cabinet colleagues in the days after Hillsborough.

The main issue of discussion contained in these documents was the effect the disaster was going to have on controversial legislation aimed at controlling the behaviour of football fans.

The Football Spectators’ Bill was already going through Parliament. The government was determined to continue with it, in order to introduce a national membership scheme for the sport. This would have brought in identity cards for football fans.

According to the conclusions of the first cabinet meeting to take place after the disaster, Mrs Thatcher told her ministers that the situation on crowd safety and hooliganism at football matches “cried out for action”.

The government wanted the legislation to be passed in time for the following year’s World Cup finals in Italy – to reduce the prospect of crowd trouble. The meeting also discussed using it to bring in any interim recommendations from the Hillsborough Inquiry.

‘Gravest matter’

In another meeting with senior cabinet colleagues which took place on the same day, the prime minister said: “To abstain from taking action… would be the gravest possible matter, now that the need for this action had been so conclusively demonstrated.”

Five days later, Home Secretary Douglas Hurd met the man conducting the official inquiry into Hillsborough, Lord Justice Taylor.

A letter written by a civil servant at the Home Office says Mr Hurd told the judge about the government’s proposed new timetable to get the football spectators’ legislation passed by Parliament.

He then asked Lord Justice Taylor what he would say if the government went ahead with this and then asked “whether he was really quite sure that it was out of the question to form and express a view on the subject of membership cards in the three-and-a-half months… between the start of the inquiry… and the end of August?”

According to the letter, Lord Justice Taylor told him that “this was possible, but he was not confident that it could be achieved”.

He said his priority was establishing the facts of what had happened at Hillsborough and could not promise to come up with any recommendations on membership cards in time to fit in with the government’s political schedule.

The prime minister was told what had happened in a briefing note from her principal private secretary, who informed her: “Lord Justice Taylor was distinctly unhelpful.”

In the end, the government did press ahead with its plans and the law was passed. However, the following year, in his report, Lord Justice Taylor said he had “grave doubts” about the feasibility of football membership cards and “serious misgivings” about the scheme’s likely impact on safety. As a result of his concerns, the government dropped the scheme and it was never implemented.

(BBC Football )

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