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#2 Petr Cech fails to get a fitting send-off

Cech played his last match as a professional

Petr Cech announced that this would be his last season of professional football after two decades of top-level football.

The 37-year-old arrived Chelsea from Rennes in 2004 and played his way into becoming arguably the greatest goalkeeper in the club's history, with his performance between the sticks proving extremely useful in the golden years enjoyed by the club during his spell at Stamford Bridge.

Cech has won everything winnable at club level and is widely considered by many to be among the best goalkeepers in history.

He swapped Chelsea for Arsenal in 2015 having been unable to displace Thibaut Courtois as The Blues number one and despite his four year tenure at The Emirates not being as productive (with only an FA Cup being the major trophy to show), Cech won fans over with his commitment and professionalism, with the warm reception he received from Gunners fans in the last home match of the season showing how highly thought of he is.

The former Czech international has announced that he would be returning to Chelsea to act as a director of football and in a rather very poetic climax, his last match as a professional footballer came against the team with whom he made a name for himself.

A fitting end to a legendary career would have been Cech sailing off into the sunset with the Europa League in hand, but his former side did not share such sentiments, as they put four past him to ruin his moment.

Even though he failed to get the send-forth his legendary career deserved, it takes nothing away from the fact that Cech was one of the finest in his time and would go down in history as one of the very best to ever put on football gloves.