• Goalkeeper had studied Bayern Munich penalty-takers in detail• Didier Drogba demanded to take decisive spot-kickThere are times, as Didier Drogba said, when there are barely enough words to do justice to the ecstasies and agonies that sport can conjure up. Roman Abramovich tried to find a few in the dressing room but only briefly. Then a Russian billionaire, operating from a level of financial power and status that means bodyguards are never far away, stopped talking and something extraordinary happened. He started wiping away tears of elation.The players in that dressing room had flirted so dangerously with the idea of defeat it seemed bar...