With the Chinese Super League over,
Didier Drogba used one of his newly
freed-up evenings to host a swanky
dinner at a hotel in London last night
to present each of his former
Champions League-winning Chelsea teammates with a "Super Bowl-style"
ring to commemorate their victory in
Munich last season. Drogba had the personalised rings
made by a Beverly Hills designer
jeweller at a cost of around 800,000
pounds and doled them out to his ex-
brethren at the Wyndham Grand
Chelsea Harbour -- though several players, including Fernando Torres,
Petr Cech and Juan Mata, along with
the man who oversaw the Blues'
European triumph, former manager
Roberto Di Matteo, were not in
attendance for one reason or another. On stage, Drogba told his former
teammates: "I wanted to give
something to the team so we can all
look back and remember that
achievement," before pointing to John
Terry in the audience and saying, "You're my hero and everyone at
Chelsea loves you." Droggo had obviously had a few
white wine spritzers by this point. Here are the Chelsea boys with their
glitzy trinkets..
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That's very thoughtful and magnanimous of him. But O boy the money plenty. I know no why I no play football.

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