内容摘要：Victory for the German was his team's first of this year's event after pre-race favourite Primoz Roglic

Victory for the German was his team's first of this year's event after pre-race favourite Primoz Roglic

The club's former midfielder Joe Cole, watching for TNT Sports, said: "People turn their noses up at it but look at all the smiling faces among the players, the staff, the fans. This is what it is all about."Fellow pundit Lucy Ward added: "People mock this trophy but this will mean a lot to this set of Chelsea players because it is a platform to move on into the Champions League this season."

BBC Sport takes a look at the story of Chelsea's Conference League campaign.Chelsea's European campaign actually almost ended in August.The Conference League is the only one of Europe's competitions where English clubs have to go through a play-off round.

The Blues led Servette 3-0 on aggregate 14 minutes into the second leg, having won 2-0 at Stamford Bridge and taken an early lead in Geneva.But Servette pulled two goals back and, after a delay in the game as fireworks were let off, the hosts almost scored in the 94th minute to force extra time.

"This kind of game, at the end, you have many things to lose and not many things to win," said boss Enzo Maresca afterwards, following just his fourth game in charge.

Rotating and resting players in secondary cups is not a new phenomenon - but Chelsea took it to a new level in the Conference League this season."The wardens at the time and Peter Scott himself, I don't think they would recognise that," Mr Gowland said.

"The layout is the same. The ponds and a lot of the wetlands were created by Peter Scott, so they are there."It is just completely transformed, alive with wildlife as well, with the trees and the meadows.

"Hopefully they would be very proud of where we are."At least 120 bird species visit the site annually and thousands of different plants and insect can also be seen.