Last minute goals have been a nightmare for all Chelsea fans in the later part of the season with a lot of teams coming from behind to deny the Blues vital points in the Championship race. However it was a last minute goal which propelled them into the record books as they overcame a spirited Benfica side 2-1 in the Europa League final.

The first half of the encounter was dominated by the Portuguese outfit, as Chelsea failed to close down space effectively, letting Benfica have too much time on the ball. They created many chances but failed to capitalise on any of them.

A year on from their famous Champions league final triumph over Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena, Chelsea head into yet another European final but this time as the favourites. The Blues played the role of the underdogs throughout last season's Champions League, winning against the odds from the first knockout round. Their Europa League campaign has been more sedate in comparison.

Their opponents in Wednesday's final will be Benfica and incidentally the last time the two sides met was in the last 8 stage of last year's champions league. Chelsea won with a difference of one goal, Salamon Kalou scoring the only one. The second leg was another closely contested affair. Lampard scored a penalty to put Chelsea in front, then the now Manchester City man, Javi Garcia equalised in the eighty fifth minute to suddenly to put the Eagles on the brink, they needed one more goal to win on aggregate. However that was not to be as Raul Meireles scored in stoppage time from the edge of the box on a counter. This year though, both the teams got to the final after getting knocked out of the group stages of the Champions League, Benfica losing out to F.C.Barcelona and Glasgow Celtic while Chelsea lost out to Juventus and Shakhtar Donetsk.

John Terry is in danger of missing his second European final in successive years after twisting his ankle in the game against Aston Villa on Saturday.

The 32 year old, who missed Chelsea’s Champions League Final encounter against Bayern Munich last year due to suspension seems en route to carrying forward his jinx and might miss Chelsea’s Europa League encounter against Benfica on Wednesday. The backbone of the Blues’ defence, Terry, was stretchered off during the match and reports do not seem to bode well for him.

There was a feeling of karma around Wembley Stadium today as if the Footballing Gods had decided to pick the FA Cup Final between Wigan Athletic and Manchester City to be the occasion to right the wrongs of the past.

When Wigan owner Dave Whelan led his team out onto the pitch at England's most sacred of venues, few would have believed that he would end the day by exorcising the ghosts of his past, having been stretchered off in the 1960 Final in the pre-substitution era, resulting in his Blackburn Rovers side being thumped 3-0 by Wolves. Whelan had broken his leg that day, virtually ending a promising young career as he would spend the rest of his playing days in the lower leagues, never fully healing from the scars.

German veteran Tommy Haas is one of the lesser known members of 17 time Major winner Roger Federer’s ‘lost generation’ of tennis players that includes the likes of Andy Roddick, Marat Safin and Lleyton Hewitt. Players that could have won many more titles and majors had it not been for Federer’s great rise to the top and 5 year reign as world no.1. Roddick, Safin and Hewitt have a few slams to their credit and also a world no.1 ranking. Haas, on the other hand, who was up there with the Swiss Maestro as far as talent was concerned was never able to live up to the promise he once showed, even though he did manage to reach the world no.2 position and a couple of semi-final appearances at the Grand Slams.

2012 was the year where he made a comeback to the tour with a victory in Halle (against Federer) and jumped 184 places to get back into the top 20. With his defeat of world no.1 Novak Djokovic and 11th seed Giles Simon in quick succession in straight sets, the 34 year old German, became the feel good story of the Miami Masters. Could he, after all these years, manage to pull off something special and win the Sony Open?

Australia have suffered their first loss of the ICC Women’s World Cup in their third and final Super Six match, going down by eight runs to the West Indies at MIG Stadium today. The two teams will meet again on Sunday in the ICC Women’s World Cup match at the Cricket Club of India (CCI).

The West Indies won the toss and elected bat on a ground where they had previously had great success with the bat, having posted 368 against Sri Lanka in the group stage of the tournament. On this occasion they got off to a slow start and were into the fifth over when Megan Schutt (3-50) first struck. She claimed the wicket of opener Juliana Nero (1), who was caught behind by captain Jodie Fields. Schutt proved why she is one of the leading wicket-takers of the tournament, as she made light work of Shemaine Campbelle (0) and Shanel Daley (4).

Former world no.1 Rafael Nadal was not allowed to cap off his comeback tournament in style as he suffered a shock defeat against world no. 73 Horacio Zeballos 7-6(2), 6-7(6), 4-6 in the final of the VTR Open on Sunday. With his victory, the Argentine joins the hallowed ranks of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic as one of only three men to beat Nadal in a clay court final. The Spaniard’s disappoint was only compounded as he lost his doubles final as well against the Italian pair of Paolo Lorenzi and Potito Starace 2-6, 4-6.

The 11 time Grand Slam champion, Nadal, who is often referred to as the greatest clay court player of all time, was the overwhelming favourite to take home the title, but Zeballos failed to read the script and matched the multiple time Grand Slam champion shot for shot from the baseline. There were no breaks of serve in the opening set and the match was forced into a breaker where Nadal played some aggressive tennis to win it quite comfortably 7-2.