In the end, the clubs' colour schemes told the tale. Chelsea blue shirts, blue-collar work ethic. Real Madrid, by a distance the most famous white strip in the history of football, white-collar "bosses," who like things to happen the way they want to happen -- not necessarily the way that the actual workers see it.
The only trouble, as whenever blue-collar workers of the world have united in ferocity and passion, is once you've got the executives, the ruling class, on the run, once you've got them divided, doubting themselves and flustered at the ancien regime being disturbed you must irrevocably seize power -- or usually regret it.