Product Description

Cup Kings! The Official Chelsea Football Club Season Review 2006/7 The 2006/7 season has proved a rollercoaster ride for Chelsea FC and its fans but once again the club emerged triumphant with two more cups to add to the trophy cabinet and many more wonderful memories to savour. For the majority of the season, José Mourinho and his players battled to achieve what no other team had ever managed in the history of English football - the quadruple! Eventually injuries, which had dogged the side throughout the campaign, and fatigue caught up with them and they had to settle for a cracking double with victory in the Carling Cup and FA Cup. The Blues defeated their arch-rivals Manchester United with a dramatic victory in the first FA Cup at the new Wembley Stadium to complete José Mourinho s collection of medals in English football. In a season of adversity there were heroes throughout the team from Petr Cech, who recovered from a serious head injury to produce a series of stunning displays, to Michael Essien, who played in almost every position on the pitch, and Didier Drogba, who became the first Chelsea player to score over 30 goals in a season since Kerry Dixon. This programme is packed with the action, drama and goals from this incredible 2006/07 season. Re-live all these wonderful moments time and time again. Fantastic DVD extras include the Top Ten Saves, Top Ten Goals and interviews with José Mourinho, Michael Essien and Didier Drogba. ALSO INCLUDES THE FULL FA CUP FINAL ON A BONUS DISC!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15492 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-06-11
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 250 minutes

Synopsis
A look back to a year of surprises, this programme compiles all the ups and downs of Chelsea's 2006-2007 season.

Customer Reviews

Don't Believe the Title
"Cup Kings!" - maybe we are, but this DVD contains no highlights at all of any FA Cup games except for the full final. The title is completely misleading and laughable, were it not for the fact that it induces you to pay for something that is not there. I always buy the Season Review, and this time I felt ripped off when I bought it. The unacceptable omissions aside, the content is poorer this year - lots of speeded up sequences accompanied by music that flash past without being identifiable. I hate to say it, but the Manchester Utd. Season Review is a far better quality product - and it has ALL the goals!

What a mess!
I can only endorse the other reviews in wondering what went wrong! One editor and four assistants and they miss out the FA Cup run, the two Spurs games were a highlight of the season. I did wonder why Amazon tagged the FA Cup Final DVD as the ideal partner, it is the only place to get these highlights. But I for one am not going to buy 2 separate DVDs to get everything and get the FA Cup final twice as the price!!
Finally why has the club not said anything about this? I have certainly contacted them with zero response. Shabby.

It isn't a complete season review, and it isn't very well done either.
I don't ask much of a season review. All I want to do is to start at the beginning of the season and follow events chronologically, getting to see every single goal and the occasional save or near miss. I also prefer to see at least one replay of each goal (I know I can rewind but how about showing another angle). A useful added feature would be to flash up the team sheet before each game.

This DVD fails on three major counts:

* It splits up the competitions instead of going chronologically, this despite referring to the other competitions in the commentary and possibly in the grainy flashback sequences if it were possible to make out what they were. This just makes it a mess.

* For some games, including the Carling Cup Final, it uses very grainy video, abysmal camera angles and pointless music and so totally fails to give any useful highlights of those games.

* It completely leaves out the entire FA Cup run apart from the final on the 'bonus disc' without any explanation.

These points, and the last one in particular, mean it is not a 'season review' in my book.

Other complaints:

* It is in 4:3 instead of the more obvious 16:9. I can't believe the vast majority of the matches were not recorded in widescreen.

* Many of the goals don't get so much as one replay so you blink and you've missed it.

* The DVD is interspersed with lots of pathetic compilations sequences featuring unwatchable video, annoying music and unhelpful camera angles, and for some games they seem to do the same with clips from previous seasons.

I understand the manufacturers of the DVD claim there wasn't enough room for the 'road to Wembley' on the DVD. Sure there was if they got rid of all the unnecessary compilation clips. I haven't viewed the extras like the greatest saves of the season but I am sure they could be usefully chopped. After all if they are so good they should all be in the highlights already and I can form my own opinion of what the best saves and goals were thanks all the same. And of course there would be plenty of room on the 'bonus DVD' anyway if they stopped the childish pretence they are giving something for nothing when the DVD is a premium price anyway.

I think the very least the club should do is issue an apology for the abysmal quality of this product.