As he approaches two of the biggest games in his career, Petr Cech believes we face a huge challenge for silverware, but insists that if anybody is capable, it is Chelsea.

The goalkeeper rightly estimates that nobody will gift us anything as we look to claim a Premier League and Champions League double, and insists that we must make sure we are not empty-handed come the end of May.

It has been a second consecutive disjointed season for Cech, who has had spells out with calf, hip and facial injuries, which have limited him to 38 out of a possible 60 appearances so far.

He hopes that the two remaining will be the two he remembers, and is adamant that anything is possible as we approach the final weekend of the league season. He also recognises the excitement generated by the finale.

'Yes, because it is 90 minutes of emotion, we know we need to win and hope Man United slip. It will be exciting for everyone, I am sure people will have pocket radios listening to the other game,' he began.

'We know what we need to do against Bolton, and we will only have hope if we have three points.'

Playing against a Bolton side that is almost but not quite safe, Cech appreciates we could be in for a tough afternoon, especially with the visitors' tendency to score at the Bridge, having done so in their last four visits.

Reminded of what chelseafc.com columnist Giles Smith suggested, that we simply win 21-0, thus removing any goal difference disadvantages, Cech responded somewhat more thoughtfully.

'The reality is that games against Bolton usually finish 1-0 or 2-0, and they often seem to score at Stamford Bridge. We know it is going to be difficult, if they get beaten 20-0 they can still be relegated, so the other thing is if they lose the game they need to lose with low scores to make sure nothing happens to them - it will still be difficult,' he reassured us.

'You never know. Everything in football is possible, and this is still possible. 90 minutes away in Wigan is United's last game of the season, and I know Wigan will not want to see Man United celebrate in their own stadium, so they will try and get a positive result.'

After a season that has thrown up more than its fair share of challenges for the club, Cech considers us to have come through stronger, and deserving of any success that comes our way.

'We still believe. Sometimes you have to go through all the bad things to get something positive in the end,' he said philosophically.

'If you get all those bad things and still manage to get points and in the position you are, you show enough character to get something in the end. But at the moment we have not even one of them [major trophies] and have a lot of hard work, commitment and effort to get one.'

The 25-year-old still smiles when he looks back on our visit to Bolton in 2005, which wrapped up our first league title in half a century. He believes we can draw on that experience to spur us on this weekend.

'No one can ever forget that, after 50 years of waiting for the title, this was a special moment in the club's history, and for myself personally as well, it being my first season in England and Chelsea,' Cech said.

'I managed to be the number one goalkeeper and won the title, and Carling Cup. This is something no one will ever forget.'

Being forgotten is not something that is likely to happen to Cech, who at a young age for a goalkeeper has already wrapped up five major honours since his arrival at the Bridge in 2004.

He is however conscious that the achievements of the side this campaign could be lost to history should we not capture any silverware, and he points to our London neighbours as proof.

'You need to get the trophies because in the end if you take the last three years of Arsenal, I don't think in 10 years people will remember that in between 2004 and 2008 they played brilliant football, no one will remember because they finished fourth and third - this is what I am talking about.

'History recognises the winners, so if you take someone who won the Champions League 20 years ago and ask them who their opponent was, they don't remember.

'To lose a final is the worst feeling. If you lose the semi-final it is a big disappointment because you are close to the final, but lose the final and it's worse because you are so close and in the end you get the same prize as the ones who lost in the first round - nothing. You don't go to the final to take part.'

For now though, our Moscow date with Sir Alex Ferguson's men remains firmly in the future, and Cech's attentions turn to this evening's Player of the Year dinner.

All the squad will be in attendance for the event at Stamford Bridge, and Cech was happy to discuss his nomination for the Players' Player award.

'This season was particularly strange in the way that you have many people with injuries, so not everyone played a whole season or as many games as we would wish,' he reasoned.

'Personally, I voted for Ricardo [Carvalho] because he took part in many games, and he kept his game on his standard. He was the regular player and I think he deserves this.'

We will all have to wait until this evening to find out if Cech's vote is the same as everybody else's, but he doesn't mind standing out from the crowd if needs be.

Evidence of this is in his selection of jersey for next season, a bright orange number known as 'Warning'.

He explained his thinking. 'Studies say the orange colour spreads the most when the striker attacks, in the split of a second as he focuses, this colour is like a sort of alarm or alert which really spreads and is very difficult to avoid, so this should be good for me,' he said.

'I hope it will prove to be, and it is a nice combination with the black.'

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