Over 150 competition winners representing 22 countries arrived in Cape Town over the weekend to experience the Heineken Star Final. The Star Final is a competition held annually, where winners are flown off to watch the Champions League Final in an awesome city. Previous cities have included Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. Cape Town – even with some sketchy weather – showed why it deserved to be included, for a second time, nogal. Winners were overheard murmuring in awed tones, “Magnifico!”, “What a vibe!”, and “Take me to an estate agent!”

Heineken italicized, underlined, and slapped on a couple exclamation marks on to an already incredibe experience. Winners permanently had a cold Heineken in hand and were shown the city in style. Up the mountain, a helicopter flip around the peninsula, and hey, why the hell not, a game of soccer on the field of Cape Town Stadium – only the best Fifa regulation pitches for the Star Final winners.

City Hall was the venue for the viewing of the final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich. Its auditorium converted into a swinging, Heineken bachelor pad, with burgers and pizza on demand, an orchestra playing the Champions League theme tune, and walls of cold beer.

Watching from the comfort of leather sofas, the winners supped and drank merrily as Drogba – to the delight of the African contingent – score the late equaliser and then the winning penalty. The party continued with 250 extra local guests until the early hours.

Sunday morning saw the winners slowly making their way to the airport. Smiling through their hangovers the various winners high-fived, recalling how they had slotted their penalty shot at Cape Town Stadium into the net so similarly to Drogba.