{"id":8812,"date":"2010-03-16T16:38:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/03\/16\/bollywood-to-the-bridge-footie-mad-abhi-backing-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T16:38:46","slug":"bollywood-to-the-bridge-footie-mad-abhi-backing-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/16\/bollywood-to-the-bridge-footie-mad-abhi-backing-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood to the Bridge: Footie mad Abhi backing Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Superstar takes to Twitter to back team<\/h3>\n
\"\"DIE-HARD footie fan Abhishek Bachchan is backing his beloved Chelsea in tonight\u2019s crunch Champions League match against Italian champions Inter Milan.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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The Italians hold a slender 2-1 advantage going into the second-leg at Stamford Bridge in a tense tie which sees the return of former boss Jose Mourinho to west London. <\/div>\n

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It\u2019s a game that has all Chelsea fans on tenterhooks \u2013 and that includes Abhi.<\/div>\n

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The Bollywood star has been twittering all day ahead of the match. <\/div>\n

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\u201cBig night tonight. Inter come to the bridge,\u201d he wrote on Twitter earlier today. \u201cChelsea have to win this one. Going to be a tough match. Jose back at the bridge – should be fun.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Hours after posting that message he was back on the site. <\/div>\n

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He wrote: \u201cInter outplayed Chelsea in the last game. Their defence shut down Chelsea\u2019s attack. 3rd goalkeeper. Jose knows Chelsea too well – something to worry about! Tonight should make good viewing. Come on Chelsea!!\u201d<\/div>\n

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You think the Bollywood actor would have stopped there. But no, just two hours after posting his second message he was back on the site. <\/div>\n

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\u201cJose is a great manager and has a great record at the Bridge,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut things might just change tonight. Will have to wait and watch.\u201d<\/div>\n

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A fan of the club since 2003, Abhi flies into the London to watch the team play when he can. <\/div>\n

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The last Champions League match he watched at the Bridge was last season\u2019s controversial semi-final loss to Barcelona. <\/div>\n

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Maybe its best then that he watches tonight\u2019s game from the comfort of his home in Mumbai\u2026we\u2019re sure he wouldn\u2019t want to be a bad omen!<\/div>\n

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Superstar takes to Twitter to back team DIE-HARD footie fan Abhishek Bachchan is backing his beloved Chelsea in tonight\u2019s crunch Champions League match against Italian champions Inter Milan. The Italians hold a slender 2-1 advantage going into the second-leg at Stamford Bridge in a tense tie which sees the return of former boss Jose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}