IT’S been four days but I still don’t quite believe it.

How did Chelsea win the European Cup? Or more precisely, how did Bayern Munich not win the biggest club competition in the world?

For those who missed Saturday’s showpiece, it was a one-sided affair from the first whistle to the last.

The German giants took the game to London’s third best team, raining 43 shots towards Petr Cech’s goal, compared with just nine attempts from Chelsea.

The Bavarians had 20 corners, the Cockneys only one. Had it been a boxing match, the ref would have stepped to stop it before Chelsea got seriously hurt.

But, of course, it wasn’t a boxing match, it was a game of football.

Bayern may have created a lot of chances but they only took one of them. Their prolific striker Mario Gomez fluffed his lines on the big night and Dutch winger Arjen Robben missed a penalty. None of Bayern’s 20 corners led to a goal.

Chelsea, on the other hand, scored from their only corner to take the game into extra time. After enduring another 30 minutes of pulverising, the English team triumphed on penalties.

Now, I wouldn’t say I enjoyed Chelsea winning the European Cup. When you see John Terry, Roman Abramovich and George Osborne all celebrating at the same time, you know something terrible has just happened.

But there was something satisfyingly unjust about the outcome.

Football is the lowest scoring of all team sports. Getting points on the board is more difficult than it is in rugby, hockey or basketball.

So the team that dominates doesn’t always see their superiority reflected in the scoreline.

Usually, a game as one-sided as Saturday’s would end 3-0 or 4-0 to Bayern. But just occasionally, it won’t. Whether through poor finishing, great defending or just bad luck, the dominant team are sometimes also the losing team.

Perhaps it is this, the glorious unpredictability of football, which gives the game the X factor, that little twist that makes it more popular than all other sports.