With all due respect my bro, this doesn't mean an awful lot to me.
6th place Chelsea winning the Champions League still went down in the history books as did last season's 4th place team.
As somebody who has seen better, more dominant Chelsea teams lose in Europe due to bad luck and unfortunate circumstances I couldn't care less how they get it done.
I'm sure when 4th place AC Milan won it in 07 it didn't mean any less to you. It was a good team scattered with legends getting it done and you celebrated it all the same.
Seeing Lamps, Drogs, Terry, Cole, Cech and them finally getting one in 2012 was great and didn't mean any less to me because they finished 6th. That's the same Chelsea core that won league titles and winning the Champions League was the culmination of that cycle. How other people view that success and where they rank it means fukk all to me and most Chelsea fans I would think. Nobody mentioned it at the parade.