Drogba 11-12 (h)

The main man from that night 8 years ago though was Didier Drogba as he scored the equaliser, and then went on to net the winning penalty in this final act as a Chelsea player (well until he rejoined in 2014!).

Drogba had been a one man battering ram in attack for the semi final ties against Barcelona and performed miracles again in the final; often holding off several defenders at once in a bid to create a counter attack and buy some relief for our defence. However, it looked to all be in vein when Thomas Muller scored with just seven minutes left.

Fernando Torres seemed to be heading down a blind alley on the byline, but managed to earn our only corner of the match; Mata whipped it in and Drogba powered home past Neuer to spark wild celebrations in the Chelsea end.

In the extra time that followed Drogba contrived to trip Ribery in the box (just as he had Fabregas in the semi final at the Nou Camp, or was that one a dive?!). Luckily Cech managed to save the first of three penalties on the night and we were heading to penalties just like four years previously in 2008 against Manchester United. Drogba had missed that shootout after being sent off for petulantly slapping Vidic, and of course would have taken a penalty, possibly instead of the unfortunate John Terry.

On this occasion we again had a chance to win it with our fifth and final penalty. From my seat up in the gods of the Allianz Arena I can recall the anticipation in the crowd around me and also the age it seemed to take Drogba to walk up to the take the penalty. A couple of short steps back, and Drogba slotted home in the bottom left corner, and the rest is history! What a night!

Cech 11-12 (GK)

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the most famous night in Chelsea's history when we won the Champions League in Munich.

Amongst 11 heroes on the pitch was Petr Cech who was excellent in keeping such a strong Bayern team at bay on the occasions they bypassed our disciplined defence. The most important save came in extra time when he saved from the penalty spot from former Blue, Arjen Robben (although some credit must be given to both John Obi Mikel and a beach ball lobbing fan for their mind games!).

As we know it ended up going to penalties where remarkably Cech managed to guess right on all five Munich spotkicks, dramatically saving their 4th and 5th penalties from Olic and Schweinsteiger respectively. Didier Drogba then finished the job off by scoring the winning penalty.

This is one of my favourite repaints, and not just because of the reasons above! The figure was one from the 2005 league winners pack and so I had to add the head guard to it. This was achieved using blu tack before I created the indentations using the side of a paperclip. This was then coated in a thinned out PVA glue and painted. I also went to the trouble of painting Petr's gloves and boots, as well as the ball!

Carlton Cole 01-02 (a)

Here's Carlton Cole who came through the youth system at Chelsea at the start of the millenium.

A fairly simple repaint, but those often turn out the best! The kit is actually a combination of the 2001-02 away shirt and socks with the 2002-03 away shorts. This was worn against Shrewsbury in the FA Cup due to a clash with their home kit. Cole scored the second in a 4-0 victory.

Zola 95-97 (h)

I've been looking through all my figures and was surprised that Corinthians didn't produce a Zola figure for their first Headliners releases.

I had a few Zola figures spare so I used one to create this repaint in the 1997 FA Cup final kit.