A: They were lucky. B: They cheated. C: They were better. D: It is written (by UEFA).
A day after Chelsea’s dream was stalled by a incompetent referee and a brilliant strike by Iniesta, I look back at the match, the incidents and the outcome. It is a painful result but chin up, Chelsea won the hearts and were seconds away from winning the match too. I’m very proud of the way Chelsea played and treated Barcelona. I’ll say it loud and clear. The better team did not go through. The better team was cheated and robbed. I know that even with this referee and his mindblowing decisions, Chelsea could have won with a margin if their finishing was any better. With proper decisions, the match would have been over by half time. Overall, Chelsea didn’t deserve to lose that tie, just like they didn’t deserve to lose the final last year.
Now, between Chelsea and Barcelona, who deserved to go to the finals? Ask the neutrals. At Camp Nou, Chelsea produced a fantastic defensive display. Barcelona, for all the creative footballing skills, just could not score or didn’t even impress. Chelsea got what they wanted and Barca did not. At Stamford Bridge, I didn’t see Barcelona. Chelsea attacked superbly and defended resolutely. Barca didn’t get one shot on target except the goal itself. With more than two-thirds of the ball possession, Barca produced nothing. They were invisible. They simply had no ideas. While Chelsea were attacking on the other end and creating gilt-edged chances, Barca were devoid of ideas at the other end. They had no clue how to break the Chelsea defence.
After the first leg, the Barca bandwagon cried foul. They said Chelsea did not play football. Of course, Chelsea did not play attacking football but they played football if defence is a part of football. It’s not that Chelsea could not, it’s just that they did not. That’s called tactics. Now you know why Barca finds it so difficult to understand the term ‘tactics’. They suck at tactics big time. Then in the second leg, when Chelsea opted to play attacking football, Barcelona could not handle them. If there was a decent referee on the pitch or in the sidelines, Chelsea would have won 4-1, purely with better decisions with same level of finishing. ‘Experts’ said that Chelsea would be crushed by Barca because Chelsea will have to attack and that will open up their defence. Did we see Chelsea attack? YES. Did we see Chelsea open up? NO. Tactics.
To say that this is a victory of football is being bloody stupid. Why is Barcelona’s victory a victory for football? Both teams played football. One team played situational football and the other played one-dimensional football. Chelsea played with an objective for the tie while Barca played like they would have played any opposition in any competition. Compare how Chelsea played against against Juventus in Champions league, and against Liverpool in champions league, Arsenal in FA Cup semi finals, against Fulham in premier league and now against Barca in champions league. In each of these matches Chelsea played differently because the oppositions were different, the competitions were different, the objectives were different and even the pitch size and quality of the pitches were different.
But Barcelona has only one way of playing football. You switched them off tactically and they suddenly become dumb and numb. Barcelona had a weakness and Chelsea fully exploited it. On the other hand, Barca had no idea of what Chelsea’s weakness was and did nothing except what they would do week in week out. Passing for the sake of passing. Chelsea’s attacking moves on Wednesday night were so much better than how Man Utd attacked Barcelona at Old Trafford last season. I don’t remember anyone calling that Man Utd win as a defeat for football. Why now?
Stop calling Messi the best footballer and all that. He was in top form just before the first leg. He was in form against Real Madrid in the weekend. He would be back in form this weekend. In the 180 minutes of football against Chelsea, he was nowhere. Coincidence? No. His only blip of the season was against Chelsea because they contained him with such brilliance that it puts a big question mark on Messi’s pedigree.
I’m laughing at those comments that everytime Messi had the ball he was surrounded by three or four Blue shirts. Firstly, that’s called marking. Secondly, if I were Messi, I’d love that because that means space elsewhere to be exploited. When Chelsea were doubling and tripling up on Messi, why could not Barcelona use the space created by this tactic? The answer is, they could use the space only if Messi could get the ball out of that multi-marking using his famous skill and creativity. Forget seeing his skill and creativity, I didn’t even see Messi. Of course he was the one who assisted for the goal. Barcelona was making those type of passes all day long. The goal goes to Iniesta, all of it. See, Messi will continue to score blinders against the likes of Numancia and Recreativo. He must learn to turn up, if not light up, against top oppositions. World footballer of the year? Give me a break.
There’s a lot being talked about Abidal’s sending off. There’s so much sympathy for Abidal because he was sent off against Chelsea. I agree, it was not a red. From the referee’s angle, in normal speed, he can be forgiven to judge that Abidal tripped Anelka. Remember, Abidal must been sent off in the first half itself, when he shirt-pulled Drogba inside the box. Abidal’s red card is incorrect? Yes, in the sense, he must been sent off half hour before the ref actually dismissed him. Let’s lay this to rest. He was lucky to have played those 30 extra minutes. And somehow, this incident is being compared with the Henry incident of the first leg. Bad comparison, to start with. Henry went down few seconds after he lost the ball. As always, old Henry’s timing for his dive was pathetic. In Abidal’s case, he was tugging from behind. Plus, Drogba until the shirt pull was fully controlling the ball. See it better here.
There used to be a time I raved about Dani Alves. I was longing to see him in a Chelsea shirt. He is a superb footballer who would be a match winner in any team. After this semi final tie, he has at least one fan less. He just showed what an awful whinger he is. In the preview of the first leg match, I wrote that he would be the weak link in the Barcelona defence and I was proved right. His defence was very messy and clumsy. How he did not get another yellow in the first leg and in the second leg is beyond me. He must have been booked for play acting plus intent of violence while tackling. His foul on Malouda in the first half was inside the penalty box. Even Stevie Wonder would have seen that. He kept hassling Malouda but the significant contact and intervention was made when the they were few feet inside the box. If the referee says that he called foul for what happened outside the box, then I’d ask him why Abidal was not fouled for this shirt pulling of Drogba inside the box in the second leg?
Just don’t argue about those handballs please. There must have been at least two penalties due to handballs. Barcelona must get off their moral high ground. Remember what TSO said about Barcelona. It is a city of culture, so much that every Barca player does great play acting. Barca players use their hands in football to telling effect. Be it attack or defence. Remember that volleyball goal by Lionel Messi which almost won the league title for Barcelona last season. On Wednesday night, they were all genuinely punishable handballs. They used their hand to prevent the ball from going towards the net. As simple as that. They may or may not have been intentional but they were instinctive. That’s how you determine the violent fouls too. It’s enough that they are instinctive. No handballs are well-thought out plans (well, except that volleyball goal by Messi).
Now you have all seen the denied penalties for handballs. Just how many goalkeepers did they have? Every Barca player ended up punching the ball in those 90 minutes. Let’s now start watching every single handball that’s being awarded a penalty in any European league. Let’s see how consistent the referees are. Tell me now. Have you not seen these handballs being given penalties in European matches before? Isn’t Stevie Me getting penalties for nothing in key European matches? Don’t they give the benefit of doubt to the attacking team? Are European referees supposed to be very strict when compared to the English referees with respect to fouls? Stop kidding. Those were penalties. If UEFA thinks otherwise, let them come out and explain. Let them explain or admit. Chelsea FC can take the harder line here but it would only make the club more unpopular than it is now with the authorities.
This match has set new refereeing standards in European football unless UEFA comes out with an apology for the pathetic performance of the referee. The match is over and we are not in the finals. That’s the reality. But what I want to see is the same standards being applied in all the matches to come. If the referees are crap let them be crap in all matches. Let there be some consistency in being utter shite. That way no one gets an unfair disadvantage. When the ‘respect for the referee’ campaign started I definitely thought that it was a good initiative. Referees must be respected. So are the players. Refereeing is a difficult job. So is being a player in a champions league semi final match. What the authorities must also realise is that respect is earned. Respect is earned by good, tough, unbiased decisions and not by flashy campaigns with verbose statements.
Drogba and Ballack are the toast of the media now. I don’t know what wrong did Ballack do. He screamed at the referee and he did that quite a lot. So? That’s something Rooney does every weekend! No footballer would have abused the referee on his face as much as Wayne has done in his short career so far. We have club captains who spit on the opponent managers and go scot free. We have a player who shoves the referee aside and does not get punished and here is Ballack who in the 95th minute of a key match, out of terrible desperation, for a real handball, claiming a penalty. It will be a shame if Ballack is to be punished for what he did.
Drogba would face punishment. Rightly so. He went a bit overboard and deserves to be punished. Drogba made a mistake and he would be punished for that. What about the referee? He made mistakes too. What happens to him? Is UEFA going to charge Drogba and acquit that Norwegian referee? That’s injustice. I’d say punish Drogba but get explanations from the referee. Jose Mourinho once said that referees must be subject to post match interviews. The managers and players do their jobs and they get questioned about their performance. The same must happen for referees too. Then where is the accountability for the referees? A referee can make half a dozen mistakes in an important match like this and continue his career like nothing happened.
The one mistake Drogba has done is by his hysteric reactions, he has turned all the attention on himself while taking the focus off the referee. While you all read about what Drogba and Ballack did, I’m not sure if you read about what Terry did. Not sure if many papers covered it. I’ll tell you what he did and you’ll know why press did not cover it.
Amidst all this chaotic scenes, John Terry walked into the Barcelona dressing room and congratulated each one of the Barcelona players and the coaching staff for their place in the finals. Great gesture. Hats off to John Terry. He’s always the big man. While I’m pissed with most of the biased journalists, there are some good level headed journos who have written very good accounts of what happened in this match.
Here is Martin Samuel (three-time winner of the sports writer of the year award) on this match:
Do not let anyone tell you the best team won. Do not let anyone say that football was the victor here. Barcelona may yet grace the Champions League final, they may yet dazzle this competition with a beautiful game, but this was not one of them. They swung a boot. Swung a boot and got lucky. Swung a boot and, somehow, eliminated a Chelsea team that were superior on the night and deserved a rematch with Manchester United in Rome.
Chelsea should have had three, maybe four, penalties; they should have been home free long before Iniesta’s fateful intervention. That they were not was considered the work of referee Tom Henning Ovrebo, from Norway, whose interpretations of several contentious incidents were bizarre to say the least. He judged fouls made inside the area to be outside, the ball was handled and he waved play on, and as the game unfolded those with a sense of portent began to fear that calamity loomed.
As the stadium emptied, it did not feel right, it did not feel just. We knew that the better team was going to Rome; but the best team lost.
Tell you what, Sir Alex (and all Man Utd fans) must be relieved to see Chelsea being ousted. He knows which team would be a bigger challenge in the champions league final. He knows that Barcelona are beatable. That’s if the referee remains a referee. Prior to the Barcelona vs Arsenal champions league final in 06-07, the referee designated for the final was photographed in a Barcelona jersey. When it became public, UEFA removed him from the finals duty. Arsenal still lost, thanks to a dubious late equaliser from Eto. By the referee who was photographed in Barca jersey was a . . Norwegian!
Talking about champions league finals, I’d like to see Man Utd win it. They are a more complete team and a more deserving European champions than Barcelona. If they’re to lose, I wish and hope the referee favours Barca as much as he did for them against Chelsea. Referee screwing up Chelsea’s semi final is never such a great story. Nobody likes Chelsea anyway. Chelsea are not a G-14 club. Even the UEFA hates Chelsea. If Barca are awarded two atrocious penalties and Man Utd are denied penalties despite Puyol and Pique catching the ball with both hands a few times inside the box, that would do. Oh well, a red card for a few Man Utd players will also be just fine. Then you’ll see the whole world getting together to talk about corrupt referees, UEFA’s conspiracy, Barca being lucky, injustice to Man Utd and all that. In fact, the media outcry would be a million times more than what happened for Chelsea.
Talking of UEFA conspiracies, do you know that the result of this match was published in the UEFA’s official wesbite hours before the kick off? How did that happen? Just how? While UEFA has cooked up a story that it was a test page, how did they predict that there will be a late Barcelona goal? How did they predict exactly that Drogba, Ballack and Alex would get yellow cards? The one mis-hit was that the ‘test page’ said one Chelsea player would be sent off whereas it was Abidal who got red. May be getting one Chelsea player was the plan but something went wrong somewhere. Actually JoseHoliday cracked it. He found that the referee carded Abidal because for a moment, he mistook the yellow jersey for a Chelsea player as Chelsea played in yellow in the first leg. It appears Chelsea has more enemies than friends. We are always against all odds.
I’m really very very proud of the way Chelsea played. This is Chelsea’s very hallmark. This is the new Chelsea that JM built. The team plays not just with skill and talent, but also with brains and emotions. Cheap journalists always call the Barcelona vs Chelsea match up as Beauty vs Beast. That’s lazy journalism. Call them Beauty vs Brains. That would be spot on. The next time someone tells that Barcelona are the best team in the world, I’m gonna scream!
I want to end this long outburst with those words of Martin Samuel: When the match ended, it did not feel right, it did not feel just.
Rant over.
Answer - D: It is written (by UEFA).
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The UEFA body is a fucking disgrace and this is a corrupt organisation. They use video evidences when they have to punish a player for their act, but they are reluctant to use to it to turn the game around. Why? because they earn nothing from that. When they fine a player they get money, but giving a worthy decision against a team is not in their plans and they say that makes it “dramatic and exciting”. Well fuck you UEFA. IT a fucking disgrace in the name of sport and fair play. Uefa is made of group of racist people who simply hate to see a successive english dominance in the CL.
That game was very unfair and if there can be no replay, there should be extra 30 minutes extention and penalty-kick if not decided by then.
And Barca-team are really a disgrace to sportsmanship. Earlier they were crying for fair play when chelsea played brialliantly at nou camp and now when decision in on their side, they don´t speak a word. Instead their gaffer Pepe said mockingly “what penalty?”in the post interview. Thats totally against spirit of sports and thats something that cannot be tolerated. It should be taken to court if Uefa doesn´t correct its mistake.
Spot on i agree with everything you say if chelsea are accused of playing “anti-football” then i cant imagion how you describe the refereeing! a victory for football? no. A victory for corruption and bias
well said, sir. i have spoken enough to defend the way chelsea played – some barca fans say we played like wigan and you can’t play small and defensive in the CL. i disagree, especially if it means advancement to the next round and means frustration for the opposition. a great defensive display is more impressive than any type of offensive blitzkrieg, especially against the vaunted barca attack. also, the fans who say that chelsea got what they deserved after the 1st leg – does a country deserve a terrorist attack? no one is more hated than chelsea, which makes me proud to be a trueblue. carefree!
Great Post man. I love this, the best post I have read in this blog. Yep! I agree its a FCUKING DISGRACE. Shame on UEFA who cant appoint competent referees. Shame on Platini. ” Il est emmerde” ( He is deep shit, in French). You are spot on with Barcas way of playing the game. Infact, all the ppl who still feel that Barca deserved to win should defenitely go and see an eye specialist. Blind ppl. It was written Chelsea all the way. May/May not be its deliberatley done by UEFA, but still UEFA should take the reponsibility of appointing such a cheap referee in a crucial match. Why dont anyone take action on the ppl who appoints these kind of ****heads for officiating semifinals?
I dont understand what the french **** face thinks, we dont give a damn. Its a fact that the top 4 clubs in England are the top 4 clubs in Europe presently. You bring fcukin rules , permutations to prevent them playing each other and you do anything, but you cant stop the exponential increase of fans who support these clubs all around the world. You cant stop the way they play just like you cant stop your shit coming out every morning. You cant deny any longer to accept that your own french league is just crap. Why dont ppl rant about when Italy dominated the 90′s? Why dont ppl rave when real madrid in some 50′s or 60′s when they won 6 cups in a row. What the fuck are you doing then?
Money!!! Coming to the point of money being invested in football, who the fuck asked the investors not to invest in spain or italy? Abramovich could have bought Milan too. He did not find value in buying Spanish or Italian club. Yes there is no value. You go to India or China or Malaysia no one watches Italian or Spanish. EPL is the global league. Its fuckin fact that all these clubs had money, had fame, sitting prettly high and when some club like Chelsea comes to challenge them, they cant accept that. Shame on their spirit. To all ppl who think that chelsea bought the title, I challenge every fuckin manager, official, president in the world to take a club which is hovering in mid table and win the league without investing. Its a open challenge to everyone. It cannot happen. Its the fact. Its also the fact that these clubs and their fans did not like that Roman invested in chelsea and turned it into a big club. Thats why all the ppl hate chelsea. They dont want any opposition to their already famed, wealthy , G-14 clubs. They want to win the title each year without opposition. No one fuckin opposed when Real Madrid bought players by paying millions. All the world hailed Real Madrid. They called them Galacticos. But when chelsea bought players, all ppl rant. Shame on the journalists. Go and spit on your face in the mirror.
Replying to gerald: 3 cheers for chelsea!! good post B, my customized jersey is supposed to come today, I will wear it proudly!!!
Replying to IwasMissingJose: a replay would be nice….but it probably wont happen…
I cant wait to see what they will do to us (uefa) 4 fucking penalties not given he had no intention of given any no matter how clear he saw it. we are just hated by everyone…..even when u listen the commentators (espn) you realize that they were saying barca would go through even when we dominated and none of them made mention of the penalties…… Tommy smith & the other one got the calls right though. guys chin up lets be strong…. and see if the world will allow this to happen to us, unpunished……
have a great days guys im trying to be strong and hope we will come even stronger next season
NIce post!!!!!!Agree with it totally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!everybody is jealous of chelsea!
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=644262&sec=uefachampionsleague&cc=5901.
“We never comment on the performance of the referee”………. LOL , ROFL, LMAO.
“No protest has been received with respect to the red card shown to FC Barcelona player Eric Abidal.” ————— God will never forgive Pep if he does file a protest. You cannot decieve your conscince. Accept that you and your team has got lucky to be there in Rome. Disgrace to all Barca fans who still say they are the best team.
Replying to Oh My Blue: R. mardid has some of the most expensive players on their BENCH… and if we have one the whole world is down on us….. i have friends who behave that way.. if chelsea buys a player.. I will never hear the end….. but when other teams do it .. o its nothing.
guys I must give a shout out to the players!!! wow im glad we didnt buy Alevs instead of Bosingwa.. love Bosingwa didnt put a foot wrong, malouda is a news man (the guy just needs a good coach) I hate anyone who hates drogba, big up ballack every time never put a foot wrong all night till his penalty was waved off. anelka played of we always look toothless with him up top, we should just sell him just does not bleed blue, we should bring Di santo to be the next big thing… the fact is if we look drog we loose our treat. we need zhirkov, maybe pavlechenko, we need midfield steel i think we went wrong to sell sidewell (didnt get chances). we need players that will give their all, our defense is great just need to keep what we have we might wan to look at Rojkovic (loan to twente) to back up the left, our left will be killer with a.cole and zhirkov mixing it up (it is our best side even now) either we try Quaresma on the right our get Ribery/bastian….. someone but we need someone to take on the defender. we need 2 need midfielders….. versatile that can play cm/am
Hey BC, great article.
I just had one question for you, reports are saying that Didier Drogba might be sold off, specially due to his reaction the other day?
Do u think it is right for chelsea to sell DD (If they do)? I mean, after such a tense game the other day, one can fully undesrtand a players emotions, i think his reaction clearly showe dhis commitment to chelsea, dont u think so
I would be quite disappointed if DD was sold
Superb work BC,
the best article I have read in this blog
Replying to Oh My Blue: whats so fuck up is that NO one (media, barca, fifia, uefa) will come forward and say it .. that the best team was cheated!!! and that we didn’t deserve what happen to us!!!
Replying to Chelsifan: i think it would be fucked up to sell our best srtiker, the guy loves chelsea I would never sell him, he stood up for what he believed.. that is a fucking disgrace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think with our squad base we can reproduce these consistent performances every year, just need to incorporate the youth a bit, strengthen the middle of the park cause we wont have lamps forever.
that ref is a fucking disgrace.. uefa is a fucking disgrace!!!!!!
Great post BC.
Still cant get over the disappointment of us not going through.There are many reasons but the fact is we arent in the final,
all thanks to the referee.
Our time will come,surely come,I have faith in God and in Chelsea.There will be one day when the entire world would have to bow
down to Chelsea.
Man Utd played much more worse than us against Barca last year.Still,there were no complaints against them from Barca or the English press.
And now when Chelsea kept a Barca team(much better than last years,infact 100 times better) quiet, goalless (who scored 146 goals prior to the match) for 3 hours,still nobody has any sympathy or any praise for Chelsea.
The fact is that this football world cannot accept any change,they do not want any other team to win other than the regular ones winning.
I am extremely proud to be a Chelsea fan.Seriously after Moscow and last night,the BLUE IS THE COLOR SONG constantly is going on in my head.
BLUE TILL I DIE.
KTBFFH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2009/05/08/1253674/manchester-united-have-an-indian-sponsor.
Good News! Though i definitely would love CFC to do a similar thing , may be with Hutch or Reliance.
Replying to trueblue: i cant stop sing that song.. i came in to work this morning and cant stop singing it in my head!!!! BTID!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ everyone …..
I hope everyone at chelsea see that we MUST KEEP GUUS HIDDINK!!!
II remember when last year person wanted him (guus) i was opposed…. i never knew he was so damn good!!! the man is a MASTER at his trade!! please i want him to remain at chelsea!!
I am proud to be a fan of Chelsea FC
and thank God or the gods or the mud our fish-like ancestors crawled out of that I chose not Barcelona to follow……
I wouldn’t know what to do with myself after such shamelessness……
And what Drogs and Ballack did are harmless …… their actions and swearing a bit is nothing out of the normal for emotional people….
If my mum had been in their place, she would have sworn like ten sailors and scratched the refs eyes out , really guys … you see….
I was once disqualified in a semi-contact karate match for landing a fast blow on my opponents shoulder but only after being punched in the stomach a number of times which the ref did not “see”… my mum then loudly accused the ref of being blind , bribed ,cursed him heartedly and we had to restrain her from hitting the ref over the head with a umbrella.
NEXT TIME AROUND next competition …my mum snarled at the ref…….I met the same asshole / the same guy … smacked my lips ,snarled… looked at him in the eye and went at him like a wildman… and full-contact… ….. the guy up against me withdrew after the first round……..
THE MORAL: who gives a shit about what UEFA does / bans … we all love you guys who swore at the ref…….
NEXT TIME AROUND : there’ll be a snarling Chelsea team…. snarling fans…… snarls before the match reminding uefa…….
…….. of this years travesty
Roque Santa Cruz 16 August 1981 (1981-08-16) (age 27) lets sign him!!! he is a damn good finishers.. and not expensive!!
Yoann Gourcuff July 11, 1986 (1986-07-11) (age 22) damn good mid fielder
Aguero we must try atleast
i was thinking about Vincenzo Iaquinta but the guy is old man
Those are some of the best damn photos of the incident I’ve seen. Great job, BC!
I’m not too sure about the whole conspiracy thing, but if the things you’ve proposed are anywhere near true, then it is indeed a travesty for not only Chelsea, but the integrity of football in general…
Oh right, Chelsea NEVER has bad calls go their way.
I love it. The one club with the biggest reputation around the world of being cheating scumbag bastards, and they’re whining about being cheated. You had your chances to win, and you failed.
Also, before you do too much moaning about penalties,
er, here:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2009/4/29/1241014715742/thierry-henry-001.jpg
Simples people. Since Mr A came to Chelsea, UEFA have hated us. Since EL PRESIDENTE, Michel Platini took over at UEFA, UEFA has hated us even more…… in fact UEFA has hated English Football since Platini came EL PRESIDENTE and it was Platini who said he DIDN’T want another all English Champions League Final. Where does that leave the ref? I saw Mr Norway when he arrived at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night and I thought this bloke won’t take no nonsense…. how wrong I was FFS.
Wherever you are in the world, unless u live in London or the surrounding areas there is a lot of neigh,…. massive discontent towards UEFA and basically Chelsea fans are saying FCUK UEFA you are CORRUPT and there are major plans to boycott future CL games (as long as Chelsea qualify and say FCUK you UEFA and Platini).
As for the ref… watch him disappear and UEFA wash their hands of him!!!
KTBFFH
Can you imagine how I felt along with Since88 when we left Stamford Bridge?
and Colin go stick FOUR flags up ur ARSE for the BLATANT penalties we didn’t get!!!!!!
KTBFFH
Please i think i must keep our big drog, we can’t just sell him like that after all what he stood for, and after all who doesn’t know the referee was a true fuccccccccccccccken disgrace, oh, how i love my bluee!!!!!!
My Fellow Blues, we have indeed been robbed by UEFA, Barcelona, the refree, everyone. We all know we deserved to be in that final at Rome. We played football the way it is supposed to be played (strategically). BC, your post is so genuine, it brilliantly describes all of our Chelsea fans feelings. We have been robbed. We deserve that title and we WILL get it !
Denver, I completely agree with you. Drogba is a Chelsea players through and through. No one would have fought like that if he didnt care for the team. C. Ronaldo would be the first one out of the stadium had that happened to United. No, Drogba cares about the club and although he was misfiring under Scolari, he has shown his true ability under Guus. Man, I do not want him to leave. I dont care how old he is. He is a thorough Chelsea FC player !
I dont want Guus to leave. He has done so much for our club. Hes brought desire back into the boys. He has gotten strategy in our play, some fluidity and composure. But, I dont want to halt what hes done with Russia, hes done a tremendous job and he should help them get to WC’10. But please, NO Ancelotti. I just dont like him. Sigh.
Anyways, I do hope that in a couple of days we can get over this disgraceful display of officialdom and look forward to next season when we build our squad which will be even stronger (and i DO hope DD will be a part of it). We are a team that deserves this more than anyone. Thank you Guus for getting us this far. KTBFFH!!
Well, It’s not the result which irks me more. There are these reports saying that “spirit of football” won and “the beautiful game” triumphed. I am unable to comprehend what is going on here. Didnt they see the game??Its utter nonsense
Barcelona are simply a one dimensional team and they were put to the sword agnst chelsea. We shud have won by a fair margin with a sane ref.
But, if any of you are from India here, i would like to ask u if u saw the post match analysis??If u r sum1 abroad, then well plzz read on..Theres some Carlton palmer guy who analyses games on the channel which broadcasts matches in India. He very coolly called Drogba a “cheat” n then said ” i repeat, hes a cheat”. I know wat Drogs did there was wrong, but its adrenaline, its emotion..N I am also not defending his antics on field, altho most are real coz of the kicks he takes. but drogs shud be banned or docked matches becoz he is paid not only to play football but also behave as a professional. But dont these guys get paid to analyse??instead of foul mouthing our players. I have written mails to this sports channel which will for all you know fall on deaf ears. But i would like u guys to also contribute n send some mails to see that these guys are also banned.
email:kishanc@tajtv.com
KTBFFH!!!CHIN UP TEAM!!!U DID GR8!!!!We’ll do it next year:)
Blue is the color!!
PS: Super Super Frank!! wat a player!!wat conduct!!wat temperament!!!
also check this link..we weren’t gonna come back empty handed..so, duly UEFA dumped us out!!!!
http://therepublikofmancunia.com/well-i-didnt-see-that-one-coming/
Brilliant post BC, definitely the best you have ever written. I agreed with every aspect of it.
This match will bother me for a long time, especially because in my heart I knew Chelsea would go on and avenge their defeat of last year. This will bother me even more than losing the final last year. No matter how much adversity we are faced with, I’m proud of my boys, I love you Chelsea FC.
Great piece. You fully express all our thoughts and feelings about the match. Chelsea were robbed by UEFA. UEFA is the f*cking disgrace here. The referee was just trying to do his job the best way he knew how and that’s the incompetent way. UEFA knew what he was like; they deliberately assign him to officiate the Barca-Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. And if Chelsea are to sell Drogba, I hope Mourinho brings him to Inter. Inter needs a striker like Drogba to pair with Ibra if they are serious about being strong European contenders for the next season. Hiddinck is a superb coach, but his repertoire of expertise does not include trying to put referees on their guard, something which Mourinho and Sir Alex do all the time with class. Ovrebo might have performed better if Moourinho were still Chelsea’s coach.
Any chance of replay guys any chance??>.
i Am fed up of people tellin it is a dream final ……..man u deserved to be there…..why the heck cant these people see these that they played the easiest teams in knockout stages…from the past two years…..they haven beaten oe big club convincingly save for arsnal the shit club…this year
barca we destroyed …..they are supposed to be the greatest team we outclased them…..why cant these logical mature adluts who all themselves pundits ..commentators say that we are the best team in europe for the past 4 years…..
THIS CONSIPIRACY SEEMS TO OUT OF A DAN BROWN NOVEL…..pathetic……we have to ask god…why the good the best doNt GET WHAT THEY DESERVE..???
WHY THE HECK do people say we got no history ………..IDIOTS DONT REALIZE WE ARE CREATING HISTORY….WE ARE THE FUTURE….!!!
why the bloody hell cant the world accept we deserved to beat manu last final………Why the freaking shit do they get credit at all??……….!!!!!!!!!!
Why the heck is it SO HARD AND SO GOD DAMN PAINFUL TO BE A CHELSEA FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
heart break after heart break year after year……………is so hard to take…………………
i wish i had answers to all these but guess we will never will………….
Fuck and fuck to Chelsea
Quoting Chelseafuck
Man, I hate scumbags like you barging in and trying to disrupt things. Screw you and whichever team you support, you sure as hell wont break the harmony between us Chelsea fans. IF you had any self respect, you’d stop screwing around in the blog. Whos with me ? Get ridder of these bastards from our blog once and for all.
Painful it is, like you all seen this bad movie a year ago and boom once again it hits you like a rook
You can talk about the ref for weeks but being so right makes it even more painful
The same as last year reason for not winning the EPL
The late goals conceding + not being able to kill the game with an extra goal
Look at GH stats since he came to this club, the men as 12 wins out of 18 games which is superb but out of this 12 wins 9 where with only a one goal margin, this is too fragile spicily when you play with such great sides.
This great great defensive line lost the EPL title last year for the same reason when conceding late goals too such as Wigen ,Spuers ,Pompy Everton, Vila…..
2 days ago it happened again when they should have killed this game 45 minutes before but kept the tribal abilities to use their chances.
If I was a Chelsea fan I would blame Mr Drogba for this tie not just the ref.
With his self minded kind of play, with his stupid diving and faking
if I was a ref I wouldn’t believe to any real penalty when it comes to him.
And above all I would blame him for his Zero scoring out of 2-3 great chances
@everyone who thinks that DD was the cause of semi-final loss. I don’t understand your thinking. Seriously i don’t understand. Why do you think DD would score each and every ball he shoots. He is not a super man. Remember that we are in the semifinal bcos of huge contribution from DD. He played well and with heart. The chances he missed are part of the game, but the decisions(penalties) gone against are not part of normal game. Certainly, not when you handle the ball twice. Those are clear penalties. There is no doubt in that.
Shall DD be sold? . DD is not getting sold bcos of the abuses he made at the end of the game or bcos he did not score. Overall he is a player with emotion. He must be handled with care and sometimes that is not nice to have. Moreover he is getting old. The club must start succession planning. It does not mean that DD is not liked anymore. It happens with all players. There is a succession plan for all great players. But he is still one of the best strikers in the world for at least two more seasons and I would be hugely disappointed if he is not playing in Blue next season.
Shall we buy another striker? I would say No. We have the option to bring back Pizzaro, of course if he likes. Pizzaro is performing well but he did not get chances with us, not as long as malouda. Even with Pizzaro coming back , i think he will not start. We need to start with Di Santo. He should be given chances. I dont like signing another big name. It’s not working and giving a reason for stupid press to rant about. It did not work well with us when we did Sheva. It is not working well for man utd when they bought Berbatov. My first choice strikers would be Di santo and DD for next season. If DD is not playing with us next season , then it would be Pizzaro and Di Santo. If at all we want to sign someone who can replace DD it would be Benzema. We need physically tough players to replace DD and i guess Benzema is one. Aguero may not fit to our play.
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You talk bout the best team losing. Barca had ten men yet still managed to keep the ball, the way chelsea react when things aren’t going their way is despicable, how many referees are going to recieve death threats by your ridiculous fans. Chelsea fc are and will always be a team full of whining thugs if u were the best team ud av took ur chances rather than tryin to rely on refereeing decisions. id rather play you lot than barcelona so we can teach u ow to play proper football.
Totally Agree with everything you said here!!! Couldn’t have said it better my self!!! Cant Believe that Fox Soccer Channel is saying Football Won, Are you Kidding Me??? I just lost all the respect i had for you right there!!! Although Chelsea did get cheated out of the final in Rome, we did miss a few chances to put 2 past Valdes. Let Lucky Barca enjoy their Final and hopefully loose
, maybe then we’ll see them crying like little girls they are, with calls that don’t go their way. For once in my life i will be a Man U. fan for one day, can’t stand it.
But with only Everton our only meaningful game left this season, we must keep our heads up and look to the future.
We need to bring in some fresh hopefully younger talent, and let JT, Lamps, and DD, be an example of the True Blue!!!
I would sell Anelka, Pizarro, Ferreira, Deco, Mineiro and some other fringe players and bring in someone like Pato (even though its a stretch, but still we should try to find players like A. Pato for the future)
As far is GH goes, I would love to see him stay for next season. As he is a great Manager, but in my mind his one mistake of taking out DD and puting in Belleti was a mistake. Probably better would be to give Drogba a few minutes to see if he could carry on, or give him a pain killer, and put in Kalou for Anelka!!! He does not look like a performer for big games anyways, maybe that’s why he moved clubs so much.
With that said, Be Trong Chelsea, with you all the way!!!
Totally Agree with everything you said here!!! Couldn’t have said it better my self!!! Cant Believe that Fox Soccer Channel is saying Football Won, Are you Kidding Me??? I just lost all the respect i had for you right there!!! Although Chelsea did get cheated out of the final in Rome, we did miss a few chances to put 2 past Valdes. Let Lucky Barca enjoy their Final and hopefully loose
, maybe then we’ll see them crying like little girls they are, with calls that don’t go their way. For once in my life i will be a Man U. fan for one day, can’t stand it.
But with only Everton our only meaningful game left this season, we must keep our heads up and look to the future.
We need to bring in some fresh hopefully younger talent, and let JT, Lamps, and DD, be an example of the True Blue!!!
I would sell Anelka, Pizarro, Ferreira, Deco, Mineiro and some other fringe players and bring in someone like Pato (even though its a stretch, but still we should try to find players like A. Pato for the future)
As far is GH goes, I would love to see him stay for next season. As he is a great Manager, but in my mind his one mistake of taking out DD and puting in Belleti was a mistake. Probably better would be to give Drogba a few minutes to see if he could carry on, or give him a pain killer, and put in Kalou for Anelka!!! He does not look like a performer for big games anyways, maybe that’s why he moved clubs so much.
With that said, Be Strong Chelsea, with you all the way!!!
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thats where you are mistaken, Barca played with 12 men (thats with ref included) and it was only last few minutes they got reduced to 11, most probably because ref mistook barcelona away kit with that of chelsea´s.
I know, if this had happened to Man U, it would have been a big case, coz you have bigger fan-base and many well-wishers and that ref would have been hanged by someone by now. But since chelsea is in comparision a much smaller club, nobody is giving shit about it. Instead they all are trying to hide it, and tell chelsea to keep mouth shut.
I challenge Uefa, if they want to prove they believe in fair play, there should be a replay of this fixture. Few false decisions can be tolerated, but 5 and of which 3 happened right in front of his eyes, it must be a conspiracy.
fucking disgrace.
And now : ManUre beware of uefa and platini,and the BarKs
ManUre fans might be thinking and some of u are saying now its an easier task but I say no !
Don’t be deluded for a second that they wouldn’t do to what they did to us
Human error we can all accept but mutiple inhuman decsions are not beyond them
The question for u ManUres is that : Does uefa want u to be champions on succesive years ?
Is it cool for their marketing and revenue purposes and at the same time acquisin to platini’s said silike of Englsih teams ?
A depleted barca team may still steal it from u. They can handball and manhandle your forwards in the penalty box as smuch as you like.
Get behind ur team , scream like hell, snarl at that referee , shout at platini , have banners say we are watching u, the whole world is watching
Don’t let them do to u u, what they did to us
ManUres : BEWARE THE uefa and barca MENACE !!!
Replying to Oh My Blue: totally agree…. keep drog and give Di Santo his chance….. and if not Pizzaro .. get the french man benzema
Replying to Lampard and the Blues.: well said.. i dont know why they dont leave us.. if they dont like us so much leave us the hell alone… I bet you won find me on a manure site or a barca site….. cause i dont give a fuck about them .. i only care about chelsea and you guys on here( true chelsea fans). fuck anyone who hates chelsea. these pussyholes spend more time on our blog than they spend our their team blog.. what the fcuk!!!
chelsea fc never said they would sell drogba.. its the media who are making up these bullshit stories
Chelsea will answer for / pay for the behaiviour of its fans and Drogs and Ballack will have to do so too !
but I wanna ask a questoin : Who or what does uefa answer to for its failings ?
It seems like its worse than a kangaroo court in a tin-pot dictatorship !
Is it now a judge/ police,jury,excecutioner and official media and head of the state religion, crony businessmen of a dictator all rolled into one ?
Yes there was no conspiracy, didn’t need a conspiracy either, just have a dumb, unprofessional,under-experienced and incompetent ref like Ovrebo officiate and its done.
Same effect, same result……
I feel sorry for the ref that the he had to change hotels and to be smuggled out of London……. he was just a pawn and used in this high-stakes ,very emotional and money/interests laden affair……. I just hope other refs will never ever be in the same situation …….. I hope Ovrebo is safe and OK….. Just don’t officate anymore … and I don’t think you will either……… Cos Chelsea will have chances to win it for many a year…… But you who was thrust into all this and you who thought you were up to it when clearly you weren’t and mucked up have now paid for it in reputation and loss of security cos of those numbskulls who threatened you !
uefa should think about this seriously : why do u put refs like that in the firing line ? You are responsible for that ! it is uefa that has compromised this man’s (ref’s) security and peace of mind and future as a ref…….. Don’t do that to the other ref”s !!!!
Great post BC : The Blue brotherhood shall stand firm, regroup, be revitailsed and next year there will be a COLD BLUE STEELY look in the eyes of all players and fans
and pity the teams that come up against us cos we will be CONTROLLED DEMONS as there is more at stake than confetti and a silver pot .
It will be honor, fairplay, dignity and justice that will be on the line and Chelsea’s victory will be proof that such things exist in this sometimes obnoxious, vicious and shitty world !
And to all the Chelsea players , we are hurt like you are, we feel as you feel, we bleed lke you bleed and we will be with you all the way !
KTBFFH !
What Happened at Stamford Bridge was a Victory for Robbery and Injustice!
Platini is a fucking SOB.He hate chelsea and like Beautiful games like sisi girls.There is only one way to stop chelea and this Unfair referee.
Guss Hiddink can make us EUROPE champions.I want him to stay.
I am Proud to to be BLUE, FUCK THE OTHERS
Barcelona was and still is a great team. However over the two legs we were the better side. The way our boys shut out a team who scored 100 goals in La Liga speaks loudly of our ability to control the game. True, Abidal was sent off harshly, but let’s face it – they weren’t doing much for an hour even when he was on. I’m proud of the Blues, even Drogs and Bally – their sheer relentlessness in pursuing the referee just signifies their love and determination for Chelsea. We’re not going to get much pity from the world given our history but that’s why its so great being a Blues fan – not many fans will stick with a club who gets jeered when they win and laughed at when they lose.
Great post bc…it is truly great…i read it thrice..
You say next year we will be back…
Well, there will be same uefa same refs……same platini..
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UEFA DOESN’T WANT 2 ENGLISH CLUB PLAY AT ROME.. LETS FUCKING GO Barcelona and football fucker :@
CHELSEA CHAMPIONS..
whatever said and done……leave aside the referee and his decisions……
why didnt chelsea have the urge to go and get the second goal and just kill the tie….
even after abidal was sent off there was so such urgency about chelsea to score a second……they were just trying to hold on to their lead……so they paid the PRICE FOR THEIR NEGATIVITY…..WHY THE FUCK WAS DROGBA TAKEN OFF THE PITCH????……..
I mean what KIND OF FUCKING MENTALITY IS THAT??????????????????????????
Barca the better team ?
In the first leg : Our defence was magnificent AND their attack was toothless
In the second leg : Our attack was great ( 1 goal ) and had to be blunted by their defence’s foulplay and a blind ref ( at least 2 goals denied )
while our defence held firm for 99.99% of the time and their attack was toothless AGAIN but for the goal
So who the fuck can say that that Barca are the better team ?
Sunny I agree for Drogba
Maybe Guus should have let him on the pitch for his threatening presence
Add Mikel or Kalou would be better maybe who knows ? …
Now it’s very difficult to score when the ref let the opponents make all the fouls to stop our moves for the goal isn’t it ???
Drogba should have been sent off for his diving.
I hope he gets a lengthy ban for his post match demenour.
There was not one single clear cut penalty for Chelsea in the second leg.
If you call it tactics to hoof the ball up Diveba, then fair enough. I’d call it pinball.
Barcelona were poor but deserved to go through.
Drogba was having injury in at the later stages…he was limping…
But one thing i cannot understand is why Guus used no sub to kill the game..when he is having 2 sub…
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Its not right to say Barca were poor…we made them look poor…they are having an exceptional season…this is not their poor run of form…the game in between our tie shows they are still in top form…but Chelsea is different son….
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Eamon and Zaneeb, you do realise that pique admitted to the handball, abidal and alves have said nothing on the matter
even Sepp Blatter has come out and said that overbo made mistakes, not just abidal
Im not even going to argue about the penalties because they are clear, assuming you didn’t watch the game just its highlights, if the pictures don’t sort it out for you guys then nothing will. Now I’m not saying experts are always right, but so far, the only person that disputes against them hasn’t spoken out. Even Ovrebo has said nothing.
I like the way Guus handled it though, saying it should be left to slide. In the current climate, after the tevez saga, surely it means Chelsea can sue uefa and possibly ovrebo? Now that would be a funny story
I would guess Eamon hates chelsea because the longball option, which I believe he used to knock arsenal out of the fa cup, does work for the right players, arsenal use it, man utd uses it, chelsea uses it and wait, so does barca and every other team on the planet, tactics does not mean do that and only that, it means dont be afraid to exploit the opportunity. If that means force messi into the corner flag as he can’t cross on his right foot and eto’o is short, that is a tactic. If Drogba gets the ball from a ‘longball’ and abidal is the only person in the box beside valdes, I call that terrible defending and a good eye from Lampard
You probably won’t admit this, but when ronaldo and rooney, gerrard and torres, stankovic and ibrahimovic, xavi and eto’o do this, you call it beautiful, an amazing run of play, when Chelsea do it, so say because they are a crap team, why, because you love to hate chelsea, no other reason. Tell me if I’m wrong, I’d love to hear your real opinion
Drogba does not ‘dive’ as often as you guys think, but for me, I’ve always played football by staying on my feet as much as possible even if I’ve been fouled, if there is a possibility of scoring by staying up, then you should
That being said, there was one occasion where drogba truly annoyed me and that was going down when abidal was holding his shirt because valdes was nowhere near the ball and drogba had it under control, he could of finished it
Yes the finishing was bad, Drogba wasted the golden chances in both encounters, Drogba alone could have put away 4 goals, thats more than Barca could of. I think Drogba has a motivation or confidence issue which is still not ddealt with.
I honestly think, as much as I like him, last year was the time to sell him, there are other strikers, younger, faster, stronger that we can find and mould.
I’m not going to say Barca are poor, but I am going to say that the kind of football they play will not beat everyone, we found that put under scolari this season didn’t we? when it works, it works well, when it gets neutered, we are ruined.
The point BC is making, is Barca, much like Arsenal, much like Liverpool, had nowhere else to turn and where you would expect the individuals to produce that sparkle you pay so much for, it didn’t happen, all I’m saying is Barca did not get through from Chelsea or Barcelona’s effort, therefore the ref is at fault
I’d also like to add, I still feel Messi is a better player than Ronaldo, not because I hate him, but rather because he is a better player
well i think Chelsea were robbed in a number of occasions during the match.however as much as i would like to blame the referee Chelsea defended most of the time during the game at a point the ball possession was 70%barca-30% that is after the scored the goal. well the say the best way to defend is to attack but Chelsea just sat back. Chelsea never capitalized on the chances they had they would have killed the game mid- second half. The only reason Chelsea is not in the final is because iniesta scored not the referee they barca got one chance and used it. Barcelona totally deserved to be in the final, credit to them.
Hiddink spoke about newspaper stories claiming Roman Abramovich has expressed displeasure over players’ behavior.
‘He did not give that comment when I talked to him yesterday. Of course we were disappointed that we did not take our chances and of course I was talking about the injustice I felt as well – but he said Chelsea did a very good performance and we said we should be proud about the way Chelsea played at home against the best team in the world.’
For more read this;
http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~1652804,00.html
Even if we end up trashing arsenal tomorrow and win the FA-cup what happened on Wednesday will still be bugging my head.
We should have won the game; we should have scored a second or even a third goal. As simple as that. We can whine about the ref being disgraceful but the bottom line is DD let us down.
Ok, he let me down. He didn’t show up when we needed him nor did frank. Come crunch time they faded. Why did Guus sub DD, because he was injured or because he was fed up wit his acting and just had enough? Its one thing to play wit a lot of emotion but another to do what he was doing and that maybe was the reason the ref never thought of giving us a penalty.
I never liked that part of his game otherwise he is my absolute favorite player.
Ppl say we didn’t try to kill the game when they went one man down, but it’s not always that easy to switch of and start dominating the game especially against a team like barca that holds the ball so well. And fatigue was a factor especially in the end when Essien was about to clear the ball.
Is anyone actually surprised that everyone hates us? U guys shouldn’t. I am used to it so I don’t even reflect on it. So what UEFA or the ref does is not something we can control.
/k
Great article BC. This game left me absolutley devastated and cheated. The referee, I think we all know he was proberbly under orders because I have never in 10 years of watching football seen anything half as bad as that. But we cant do anything other than hope the referee receives more death threats then decides to retire because he is not fit to referee a game of football.
lets forget barca game and concentrate on beating arsenal and then fa cup final vs everton .cheer up blues
How quickly liverpool gets penalties…….
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Awesome article man. Truly awesome.
Afterall life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. And defeat in life is about going down and staying down. We have showed the character to bounce back after what happened last May. I’m sure we will do it again. Next season we won’t leave it to a goalpost or Iniesta. Next season we won’t leave it to any Tom fucking Henning, because he doesn’t deserved to fuck the dreams of thousands of football lovers.
Blue is the color !
Now I can already accept the defeat to Barcelona…but I also reminded myself that Barcelona actually NEVER WIN to go to the final, they just Qualified to the final of UEFA CL. I had this friend who is a Barcelona fan, well, he really teased me about Chelsea for not being able to go to the final and lost to his Barcelona team, but I told him, Barcelona Never Win, they just, by LUCK, QUALIFIED. Because of the away goals rule, we lost. If there is NO AWAY GOAL RULES, I am sure, Chelsea will beat Barcelona convincingly. Guys, lets take this as a lesson for us and CHelsea team need to step up its standards. For now, I just hope CHelsea will get young players who can shine especially in attack or midfield. Lets get MARKO MARIN from the Bundesliga. He is another talented shorty as talented as MESSIor ARSHAVIN… I have to admit Messi is skillful player and talented although I hate Barcelona, but individually, I dont hate him as a footballer. Guys, lets cool down now although we all have the same hatred towards UEFA and the referee. But we all know at the same time, sometimes we need a little bit of luck and thats why Barcelona had even they did not managed to played according to their own game. Lets hope Chelsea can be a better team starting from our next game with ARSENAL and lets show other team that we are going to meet, that we are actually far better than Barcelona and better than any other team in the EPL of from anyehwre in the world. Lets get that tag – BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD, WORTHILY.
guys its time for a change chelsea cannot keep this same team for next season and if messi ever came to chelsea i would cry because he would flop yes even worser than shevchenko you know why because he is not strong and messi likes to have space but in the premer league there would be no space for him look how he played against chelsea he did nothing you know why because they didnt give him space unlike la liga where they give him loads. man u should have no trouble with him and i reckon man u are gonna win the champions league. chelsea must change their team a lot. left back: zhirkov or lahm right back: ok centre backs:bruno alves or someone else midfielders: diego chelsea must use pizzaro in the deal to get him gourcuff wesley sneijder real madrid are planing to sell him or van der vaart, wingers: ashley young robben real madrid are planning to sell him ribery robinho strikers: aguero benzema kierrison or other good young strikers chelsea know who they must sell
Even after a few days I am still seething
Replying to JoseHoliday:
I feel exactly the same.. this will bother me for a really long time.
Replying to JoseHoliday:
I share the same feelings bro. A defeat against Liverpool last to last year in the semi finals was bad, but we could get over it after a while. But this, this is beyond that. Its probably because we knew we were the only team worthy enough to get through from that game and somehow that didnt happen. Everyone (and not only us Blues fans) thinks we were robbed; Arsene Wenger admitted we were more disappointed that Arsenal, hell even Manchester United blogs are saying we deserved to get a re match. And tell you what, we would caused much much more trouble to united title. We can only look forward to tonights game, a football game is really what the guys need to cheer up from Wednesday. I think Hiddink will go with this formation:
—————–Cech———————
-Bosingwa—-Terry—Alex—-A.Cole–
——————Essien——————
—Lampard————–Ballack——-
—Anelka———————-Malouda-
————-Drogba———————-
Hes reiterated how important it is for us to secure Champions League qualification (direct) and how that was his primary aim. So i think he’ll go with a full-fledged squad. 3-1 to chelsea. KTBFFH!!
They say it was a battle between beauty and the beast.
But actually the other day was clash of the following :
The old guard vs. the new contenders
The continental leagues vs. the premiership
The old money of south-westen europe vs. new money from US , Russia and Asian audiences’ money
The hodge podge of networks in Spain, Italy etc… vs.The global sports networks
The Latin and south american countries’ players so-called technique and guile/ cheating vs. The brains ,tactics, brawn and speed of a new generation of players fromall
over the world
Maintaining status quo and monolithic auotcratic institutions vs. sportmanship and fairplay
Stuffy out of date rules and regulations vs. Change
Fake genteel aristocratic politness and political correctness vs. Exubarant,emotional enthusiasm and justice
Old fallible traditions and human error vs. technology
The past and the future of football
Round One goes to the past ! But they know, platini,maradona, la porta etc know they are on borrowed time : the other day was just a desparate rear guard action !
Today is mother’s day, so let’s not forget our mothers and Tom Henning’s mother
Happy Mother’s day to all mothers
but
Fuck Tom Henning’s mother for bringing up such a thieft and dream killer.
NIce post!!!!!!Agree with it totally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!everybody is jealous of chelsea!,,,,,,……………….,,,,,,,,, fucking disgrace,,,,,,
CHELSEA FOREVER
If i get a chance i will kill that norvey devil like a weed. bloody bastard. fucking disgrace
i cant sleep that horrible night i feel totally cheated oh i cant stop my tears that night bother me a very long time
Ok. Now make a post on the 4 penalties not given for Barcelona (1st and 2nd leg).
Oh no? Are chelsea fans in denial?
Chelsea is a disgrace to football. Go play rugby.
U deserved to win the second leg yeah…that’s all.
First leg we were denied some penalties and u played like a sissy club. U call it tactics. I call it a disgrace.
Foorball = attacking +defending. U could have rented a rugby team to do the job instead.
U can’t outplay us so you use physical force. That’s anti-football..try using the ball.
Btw, try to make a case and don’t post 5 pics of which 3 aren’t penalties at all.
lmao.
Also funny you include the shirt-pulling…it’s chelsea’s trademark
A weak team and a disgrace to football.
PS: when we had 10 players u couldn’t even do the job. You were still defending haha.
We gave you a lesson in efficiency: 1 shot at target, 1 sublime goal.
Keep practicing!
I bet you won’t even have the guts to keep this message online.
Oh yeah…i forgot:
if you need penalty goals to go to the next round against a less physical team, you truly have no quality and don’t deserve to go through.