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07th Sep 2015

Didier Drogba thanks Chelsea fans for their gesture at his MLS debut

What an impact...

JOE

Having left Stamford Bridge for a second time, Didier Drogba is enjoying an impressive start to life at new club Montreal Impact.

He marked his debut for the Canadian club with a perfect hat-trick, but it wasn’t just Impact fans that were there to witness his MLS bow.

A number of Chelsea supporters had crossed the Atlantic to watch Drogba play for his new team, and unfurled a banner behind one of the goals. When translated from French, the message simply reads: ‘From London, for the King.’

Drogba noticed the banner and later took to Instagram to thank the traveling Londoners for their gesture…