‘Like clapping when the plane lands' – Dublin Airport ruthlessly troll Chelsea over Europa Conference League triumph

The Irish Sun

29-05-2025

DUBLIN Airport's social media team mocked Chelsea's jubilant celebrations after winning the Europa Conference League.
The Blues produced a second-half comeback
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Dublin Airport's social media team are a witty bunch who routinely mock Premier League giants
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Chelsea became the first club to win the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League
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Not the Dublin Airport social media team were all that impressed...
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The turnaround sparked joyous scenes at full-time as Cole Palmer and Co celebrated to the nth degree.
That particular scene provoked plenty of derision from rival fans given it's the third-tier European competition and a giant club only ends up in it after severely under-performing the previous campaign.
Dublin Airport's social media team were among the haters as they posted a witty photo of Chelsea aces merrily dancing.
It was captioned: "Celebrating winning the Conference League = clapping when the plane lands."
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They have recent previous in this regard too. After Man United added the cherry on top of their disastrous cake of a season by losing the Europa League showpiece,
In that instance the staff tweeted a photo of an empty departure gate with the caption: "Irish Manchester United fans heading to Champions League games next season."
But in five years' time it's highly unlikely many people will remember the heady night in Poland when the youngest squad in the Premier League came of age by coming from behind to see off Real Betis.
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The trophy itself will easily masquerade as a waste-paper bin in the manager's office and time will move on for a club convinced it is on the way back to greatness as it should be after
Yet it almost wasn't so. Maresca had to make drastic changes to his team and to the mentality in order to get over the line.
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His young team was a bag of nerves in the first half and as such went behind inside ten minutes to a team comprised of veterans and cast offs, managed by a bloke exactly the same age as Maresca's dad.
They were run ragged by the sublime skills of Isco, a former
They shot themselves in the foot with nervy, slack passing as they struggled to get to grips with the occasion and could have been more than the one goal down they were at half time.
But when you play with kids you can win things and they learn quickly.
Maresca
He surgically removed
PALMER POWER
To the extent that
Two goals in five minutes, the 65th and 70th, saw Chelsea come roaring back and both were teed up by Palmer from the right hand side.
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Chelsea have now officially won it, or bought it all depending on your viewpoint. But their squad is priced at around £750 million, more than five times that of their opponents here.
Next season instead of Betis it will be
Not that they didn't struggle when faced with the first decent team to confront them the entire time. It shows there is still a lot to do.