"Who the f***ing hell are you?" roared the travelling Kop twenty five minutes into the 2006 Charity Shield (Community my a***) as Chelsea’s latest superstar recruit limped from the Millenium Stadium pitch - the latest victim of the growing red juggernaut. Just a few minutes earlier Michael Ballack had been booked after a late lunge on Momo Sissoko, and the young midfielder from Mali obviously hadn’t forgotten about that incident as he pounded the German playboy with one strong (but fair) challenge after another.
That single incident pretty much encapsulated the afternoons events as it was mirrored all over the pitch. Chelsea had the names, but Liverpool had the performances and inflicted a second successive victory over our increasingly biggest rivals (in a football sense at least).
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