Chelsea Blue Revolution
Finally got around to watching the Chelsea Blue Revolution documentary which covers Chelsea rise in English football from 2004 to 2007. Don’t ask me why it took me so long to finally get to watching this. I was entertained by the documentary but in the end I felt so much more could of been told.
The first thing which bugged me about this documentary is that’s it’s only 90 minutes in length. Why in the world is this documentary 90 minutes? This isn’t Fahrenheit 911 which is a documentary meant to have commercial appeal. Blue Revolution is meant for hard core Chelsea/Football fans. It simply doesn’t make sense to really only give 30 minutes per year considering all the news Chelsea were making during this time period.
Events such as Luis Garcia goal against Chelsea in the Champions League, The battles between Barcelona and Chelsea were all touched upon with archival footage from press conferences most of us have already seen before. The best parts of this documentary is when the players sit down and talk about their experiences at the club. The problem is there was too little of that. You had John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba but what about the rest of this club? Everything about this documentary felt hurried where really this should of been three hours in length. What Chelse fan would complain about the extra time for a behind the scenes look at the club?
Also no Roman Abramovich. Would it of been too hard to ask him these two questions which started the Chelsea Revolution. What made you want to buy a football club? What then made you then decide to buy Chelsea? That’s all I wanted. Peter Kenyon did a good job in this documentary but he can’t answer those question.
My favorite parts of this documentary where some of the behind the scenes look at the club. Chelsea were in Los Angeles preparing for the season and they had this huge house party where you saw John Terry on the staircase with Snoop Dog of all people walking down the same stair case as examples.
But of course my favorite parts of this documentary were the ones during with Jose Mourinho. During this one clip where he is in a video training session he goes to his players, “I’m not saying you have to win this game…..pause…..but you can not lose.” The way he delivered that line for some reason killed me. The other moment which I enjoyed was when the camera followed Mourinho to Madame Tussauds where his wax lookalike was being unveiled. After all the press were gone Mourinho and the Madame Tussauds people where in a back office and they were like anytime you want to bring your family by to the museum just let us know beforehand and we can arrange a tour for you. Mourinho was like no, can’t do that. My family doesn’t like to be out with me cause it always turns into a commotion, then explained a story of him and his family being hounded by the press at Euro Disney now his kids prefer to go out without him. Now I know this is a documentary about Chelsea and not Mourinho but that was the insight I wanted to see more out of from the players/coaches with regards to all the things football wise which occurred at Chelsea during 2004-2007.
Below is a clip from the documentary