Didier Drogba had to be pulled away from the referee last night, shouting at him and pointing in his face. Michael Ballack joined in and captain, John Terry, contributed his fair share, making little effort to hold his players back.
Chelsea have a reputation for their dreadful discipline and last night it was at it’s worse. It was probably the worst example we’ve ever seen.
As Drogba walked off the field he turned to the Sky Sports camera knowing and shouting “this is a disgrace! It is a fucking disgrace!” and his attacks reportedly continue down the tunnel.
“I am fully behind Didier Drogba for the way he reacted,” said Terry after the game. “The man wants to win. You can see the passion that he played with during the game and the passion afterwards. It is difficult when players are so high on emotions after the game and people were saying in the TV studios that we shouldn’t be reacting the way we did. That’s impossible after having six or seven decisions go against you at home in front of your own fans. I’ve seen them all and two were clear penalties and you don’t get one. How are you supposed to feel?”
There is no doubt the referee cost Chelsea the game yesterday, although the game could have been in their own hands had Drogba put away one of the several chance he had in both the home and away leg, but the referee failed to award them stonewall penalties.
But how can a captain be “fully behind” his player who repeatedly confronts a referee and swears in to a television camera? How can emotions be blamed for what happened last night at Stamford Bridge? It’s as if they believe they are the only team to suffer at the hands of the referee or they are the only team passionate about reaching a cup final.
Manchester United missed out on their place in the FA Cup final thanks to Mike “Manchester United fan” Riley failing to award a penalty when Danny Welbeck was brought down by Phil Jagielka in the box. Welbeck had beaten the keeper and had an open net gaping before Jagielka took him out, making no contact with the ball. No penalty, no FA Cup final, for a team made up largely of teenagers and players in their early 20s (Foster 25, Rafael Da Silva 18, Ferdinand 30, Vidic 27, Fabio Da Silva 18, Welbeck 18, Gibson 21, Anderson 20, Park 28, Tevez 25, Macheda 17. Average age=22) who were inexperienced, naive and emotional. Did they verbally abuse the ref? Did they scream and shout and swear in to the camera? Course they didn’t.
Darren Fletcher looks to miss out on his place in the Champions League final because the referee sent him off for a supposed foul on Cesc Fabregas. Replays show Fletcher got to the ball and that no red card should have been given. So did our player verbally abuse the referee? Did he scream and swear in to the camera? Course he didn’t.
How many times have teams lost finals, been relegated, denied league titles because of refereeing decisions? Just off the top of my head, I remember Mark Hughes scoring against West Ham on the last day in 1995 and it was wrongly ruled out for offside and Blackburn lifted the Premiership trophy that afternoon because of it.
Teams and players up and down the country are denied what they deserve, whether it’s a place in the division above or a title, whether it’s a place in a cup final or lifting a trophy, every single year. But have you ever seen a team behave the way Chelsea did at the final whistle last night?
The attention today should have been totally focussed on how poorly run UEFA is, with them appointing to referees for the European Cup semi-finals who made dreadful decisions, particularly the one for the Chelsea vs Barcelona match, but instead, thanks to those twats, the limelight is being taken away. Yeh the referee was bad but how bad were the Chelsea players? UEFA will now hide behind the behaviour of Drogba, Ballack and Terry, instead of addressing what should have been the real issue this morning. How can Chelsea criticise the referee for being unprofessional then go on to be unprofessional themselves? It doesn’t cut it!
Terry asks how the players are supposed to feel. Well, they are supposed to feel absolutely gutted. They were well and truly robbed by a totally inept referee. But does that excuse what followed? Course it doesn’t. I’m not sure where this precious idea has originated from, this idea that they are more passionate or they have been more heavily robbed than other teams, but for whatever reason, people seem to buy in to it.
They are a fucking disgrace and the fact their own captain approves their embarrassing behaviour suggests nothing will change anytime soon.
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absolutely disgrace..but you can expect the media will backup all the rent boys disgraceful acts….though it will be different things if it happened to us. just as your previous post scott, liverpool are media darling, and united had just to settle for winning the trophys..let it be that…maybe its time for rent boys to shame with themselves. yes the ref screw up, just as mike riley did, but certainly he didnt deserved such a bad reaction for mad drog and crazy ballack…its a shame…
No surprise at tiny tears’ comments.By the way,where is King Eric?I would love to hear his input in all of this.
Death threats have already started.
Considering the reaction when Gary Neville celebrated a bit in front of liverpool fans……
spot on DinoThe Dog..gaz just celebrating and get punished…what will be the verdict for mad drog and crazy ballack? suspended for life in europe??
Guys what are we talking about?Mourinho started all of this.He shaped those players’ egos.Remember the Chelsea-Barcelona game a few years back when they constantly threatened Frisk to the point that he ended his career?The Norwegian might have a very good memory.
Funny how 20 mins earlier drogba was limpin & couldnt continue the game, didnt stop him runnin around the ref like that.
Our players wouldn’t have done that but I’m sure Fergie would have gone bonkers if that ref reffed our match! Still, inexcusable.
It is going to be one heck of a final and of course I hope the better team wins; i.e. us… MANCHESTER UNITED!!
Fletcher’s dignity and mature, professional attitude at being unfairly deprived of a champions league final is fitting comparison with those ‘girlies’ in blue.
Some of the refereeing decisions were poor – it happens to teams all the time.It was in Chelsea’s hands to win the game – its called scoring goals, not collapsing in a heap when an opposing player so much as breathes on them.
A sobering thought though – what if there is some truth in UEFA letting it be known they did not want an all English final – and what if Chelsea had gone through on Tuesday night and the United game was the next night?!
I doubt the ref was influenced to ensure it wasnt a all english final, otherwise why would he have sent off abidal for a questionable challenge when chelsea were 1-0 up.
Scott: “the referee cost Chelsea the game yesterday, although the game could have been in their own hands”
Gotta disagree with that, my friend. The RentBoyz got a man advantage when Abidal was wrongly sent off. Drogba missed open chances in both ties. The so-called “stonewall penalties” are always open to interpretation as UTD have shown over the last few weeks – Welbeck getting tripped in the box by the last man ? Carrick touching the ball and then getting tripped by Gomes ? Fletcher getting to the ball before rolling over Fabregas ? Similarly, you can argue about the two handball decisions last night as well as the inconclusive wrestling matches. Without video replay – and maybe even with it ! – these situations are often inconclusive since it’s not a matter of one man being 100 per cent “at fault” but rather shades of gray.
More to the real point – having failed to win a game they had in their pockets, the RentBoyz showed their usual complete and total disrespect. Compare Darren Fletcher’s response on Tuesday with the performance of Ballack, Ca$hley Hole, Tiny Tears, and TheDiddler.
I hazard a guess that if ANY of the current UTD squad behaved in that manner, SAF would team him a new one. Even Wayne Rooney’s behaviour seems to have be modified, even though he is hardly an angel and always plays with bubbling emotions.
Wayne is 22 or 23 – three of those RentBoyz are international captains and the other is a 28 year old but a complete arsehole who shows no signs of anything approaching maturity in either his personal or professional life, so far as I can tell.
I think that if you want to make a case against Jose Mourinho’s appointment as SAF’s successor – and I know you do ! – then the complete lack of sportsmanship that Chel$ki displayed last night can be traced back to his time at the helm at the Bridge. Accusing Anders Frisk of “conspiring” with Frank Rijkaard ring a bell ?
On the issue of last nights game:-
POSITIVES FOR US CHELSKI BEING OUT.
1. We hate em….after the dippers there is no other team we loathe or hate more or despise.
2. Players like tiny tears terry..cashley hole and michelle bollocks and frankie lumpolard makes me cringe.
3. I would never want those or dippers win anything
4. Chelsea would have proved a very stern physical test
5. 3 weeks all we would have heard was Revenge Revenge Revenge
6. ABU media in the UK hate us…for me living in england makes me sick each time you hear bbc, sky, setanta, radio five live, talksport…they diss utd sooooooooooo much. And with 2 english teams again you would have bet your bottom dollar…..the press would have been licking frank and john and the ‘miracle’ worker guus’s arse in all the build up. This way atleast the UK based media can concentrate on us and the Spanish media can concentrate on them. Different countries.
7. I hate the fuckers…but i have to say they were robbed….i know id be livid…but vermin like doggy make me sick
8. The dives and theatrics
9. I hate their fans
10. For all barcas wonderful play and amazing beautiful football…they get away with it in the inferior la liga. Scott mentioned earlier against us, the dippers, chelski and arsenal…they hardly created shit. I dnt want to tempt fate but messi eto o etc were anonymous. Infact yes they make keep the ball better than any team in history…yet chelsea had the 6 guilt edged chances.
11. Hate that maloudas haircut
12. Barca can only play 1 way
13. Milito, marquez, abidal, alves all out. Yes i know they dont give a toss about their defence anyway. But still. ( By way people saying abidal shouldnt have been a red ala fletch…that s wrong…anelka did trip himself over…however abdial should have gone for the earlier pen shout on doggy..where he took him out in box).
14. A cup final is 50 50…..so easy to lose it. And yes losing it makes you sick…however losing it to barca if we did…is better than tiny tears picking the cup up.
15. I HATE THOSE SCUM
NEGATIVES FACING BARCA:-
1. Yes they maybe without a couple of fullbacks…but they dont give a crap about that anyway.
2. Their front 5 are scary
3. We suffer when we dont have possession….and no one in history keeps the ball better and passes and moves it better than them
4. We would have dealt with the predictable long ball punts from chelski..now we have to be more aware of more intricate eye of the needle passes.
5. Iniesta is amazing..their best player in my opinion
6. They re the bookies faves
7. I think missing Fletcher V chelski wouldnt have been that big. V Barca it is big. YOU DEFFO need a cruncher to sit there and stop xavi and iniesta from dictating play. Hargreaves did that brillaintly last year. IF he and flecther were available…i would have put both of them in…with scholsey infront as a 3. Then Roo And Ron wide and Berba up top. That would have killed them. Now we have a problem….you have to have a cruncher tackler in the middle v barca. Gibson? O shea? Flecther will deffo be missed v barca rather than chelski
8. Ronaldo v Messi hype..dont like it.
9. Younger age of players compared to the old chelski
10. Ermmmmmm any others guys?
i hate drogba he’s a self involved wanker,if he showed that kind of commitment on the pitch playing instead of abusing refs chelsea would be through,the chance he slammed into the goalies legs all he had to do was slide it into essien and it would have been 2-0 selfish bastard.then before he came off he’s hobbling around the pitch like he’s got a broken foot and then when he gets subbed his facial expressions is “why are you bringing me off”.he’s such a fucking baby i really hate that fucking guy
Now the ref’s received death threats. No doubt he’ll quit the game in fear of his safety.
Chelsea are a scummy club and their fans are a bunch of council estate shithole wankers. I used to live in London and know what supporters of these London clubs are like. Millwall, Chelsea, West Ham – they’re all a bunch of racist thugs. I was standing at Fulham Broadway station one weekend when I heard a few Chelsea fans singing anti-Semitic songs.
Thank God I don’t live in London anymore. An utter shithole full of morons.
UEFA should send out a message and ban Chelsea from the Champions League next season.
I am absolutely seething writing this.
We have had our own embarrassing moments not so long ago i.e. Keano, Stam, Nev etc although fortunately that now seems a thing of the past (hopefully).
Massive respect to Fletch for being so dignified. That guy has gone up in my estimation so much in the last few years. Top lad.
I don’t hate Chelsea anymore than any other of the London clubs but I’m really glad we not playing them in the final. Now that I live down sarf I take great pleasure in reminding southerners that no London team has ever won the CL in all it’s various guises!!!
We suddenly seem to be getting very confident now we are playing Barca but it’s going to be a really tough game.
C’MON UNITED!!!
Stop calling chelsea dippers or rent boys or anything else. I am a United fan but i always respected every team as i have the opinion that every team carries a history. Chelsea are not a disgrace my friends, they ouplayed Barca yesterday and they were not awarded not 1,not 2,not 3, at least 4 penalties!! Try not to be biased and watch things at a different way. If that happens in the final in Rome u will come back here the next night and cry, and calling the referee a disgrace. Try to be more reasonable, Chelsea were robbed yesterday (i personally wanted Barcelona for the final) and stop referring to previous incidents for example Welbeck’s one which is something totally different than last night’s game. Lastly, i personally hate Drogba and Ballack but i understand them because if that happened to my team i would do the same thing. When u are trying for 90 minutes to stop Barcelona and all the decisions go against u it’s reasonable u are going to act in this way. Cheers
By the way another begative facing barca:-
1. Yes i hate those chelski scum and i wanted em out…..but ive always said the bung taking, fradulent, suit wearing, prawn munching, champagne drinking, egotistical, arrogant, bully boy, non footballing UEFA and FIFA. Have alway hated english football. This goes back a century.
Read the history of how the FA and UEFA and FIFA were set up. Think about why england never get to host the world cup. Think about how many time Fat blatter has vilified english football…think about how many time him and michelle PRAT ini have dissed and vilified us, our club, our football, english teams power and supremacy and foreign players and reducing our clubs in clge from 4 to 3….bringing the the 6+5 rule in. How platini loves barca and is een with laporte at barca every other week…how blatter is the honorary president of madrid.
I hate Chelski yes…but guus is right….this aint fantasy conspiracy x files theory. This is tru…a fact…that uefa fifa hate english clubs winning it. Did you not see how unhappy PRAT ini was to give us the cup last year???????
They would rather barca win it…ANY TIME OF THE DAY.
Thats a bloody fact. England has always been hated on the continent…look at the bloody eurovision song contest.
So we have to be careful. Tom Henning Ovrebo was prepped by uefa…how can a ref miss 4 pen decision….3 stone wallers.
Anyway as for guys making out Abidals our fletcher…get a grip people.
He was sent off wrongly yes due to anelka tripping himself over. HOWEVER HE WAS THE LAST MAN WHEN HE PULLED DOGGYS SHIRT AND TOOK HIM OUT FIRST HALF. SO INFACT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN RED CARDED 30 MINS EARLIER. JUSCTICE WAS DONE 30 MINS LATE.
HE AINT NO FLETCHER CASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Denton Davey – I’m not sure what you’re disagreeing with…?
Scott: “the referee cost Chelsea the game yesterday, although the game could have been in their own hands”
DD: Gotta disagree with that, my friend. The RentBoyz got a man advantage when Abidal was wrongly sent off. Drogba missed open chances in both ties.
Like I said, the game could have been won had Drogba taken his chances and it could have been in their hands, instead of the refs (and Pique’s and Eto’os and god knows who else! lol), but having a man wrongly sent off in your favour with 20 mins to go does NOT make up for two or three penalties. How can you tell they don’t even out? Well which would you prefer for United? To have a couple of penalties or play against ten men for 20 mins? Are they equal to each other? Course not. I’d rather two or three penalties than playing against 10 men for 20 minutes, as would everyone. They don’t cancel each other out at all.
That said, like in the article, it doesn’t come close to excusing their behaviour afterwards.
Agree with the author wholeheartedly, save for a caveat: “Manchester United missed out on their place in the FA Cup final thanks to Mike “Manchester United fan” Riley failing to award a penalty when Danny Welbeck was brought down by Phil Jagielka in the box. Welbeck had beaten the keeper and had an open net gaping before Jagielka took him out, making no contact with the ball. No penalty, no FA Cup final, for a team made up largely of teenagers and players in their early 20s (Foster 25, Rafael Da Silva 18, Ferdinand 30, Vidic 27, Fabio Da Silva 18, Welbeck 18, Gibson 21, Anderson 20, Park 28, Tevez 25, Macheda 17. Average age=22) who were inexperienced, naive and emotional. Did they verbally abuse the ref? Did they scream and shout and swear in to the camera? Course they didn’t.”
…to be fair, a place in the FA Cup Final is nothing compared to a place in the Champions League Final, so I think a greater display of emotions can be slightly (read SLIGHTLY) excused.
Scott is right..id rather have the pens…and 2 were nailed on. And abidal SHOULD HAVE BEEN SENT OFF IN THE FIRST HALF. Shirt pull, trip and being last man on doggy. He’s lucky he played an extra 30 mins.
HE AINT OUR FLECTHER
Drogba is a disgraceful excuse for a professional. He cheats and cons the ref at every possible opportunity but when things go against him (unfairly or not) he reacts like a child. I’m not a spiteful person but seeing Drogba and Terry so disappointed really cheered me up after the misery of the game at the Emirates!
iammrben – Of course the Champions League final means more than the FA Cup final… but the Chelsea players who were reacting the way they did were grown men in their 30s, whilst our team of teenagers, who aren’t experienced, did not react at ALL negatively towards the ref.
weshallnotbemoved1 – the referee was a disgrace, I think we can all agree on that, and if the referee did that to us in Rome, we would again all agree he was a disgrace. The point of this isn’t was the ref right or not, because obviously he wasn’t. The point of this isn’t should the Chelsea fans be royally fucked off or not, because of course they should. The point of this is should Chelsea players have behaved the way they did in reaction to the dreadful refereeing, and the answer is clearly no. They are not the first and they certainly won’t be the last team to be robbed of something so important by the referee, but I’ve never seen players behave the way they did at the final whistle. And then for the captain to come out in FULL SUPPORT of that behaviour? It’s beyond a joke.
funny how nobody has mentioned how the tie could have ended had drogba just scored just ONE of those MANY chances he had until this article mentioned it. He should have scored when he was one v one with Valdes but he shot straight as him. So who’s to blame for his own wastefulness in front of goal?
Or the fact that chelski chose to stay back and soak up the pressure against 10 men Barca, rather than to go for a killer second goal. Hell, they should had dominated possession against 10 men Barca but CHOSE not to.
I’m glad Barcelona won because the team who wanted to play football won. Justice has been served.
Uni-brow Boswinga’s comments seem to be completely overlooked
“This referee was bought. I do not know if he is a referee or a thief.”
In this day and age were you get punished for saying the referee was shit I will be interested to see what comes out of this saga
I noticed as well that Tiny Tears was sobbing last night….. he tried to hide it a bit better this time though….. cunt
Chelsea is a club that oozes class…… ha ha
i will be amazed if Drog escapes atleast a 3 match ban.he & Ballack should deserve a min 5 match ban.are these professionals role models, lol
iammrben-
If we want to put it on parallel then we need look no further than our disallowed goal against Mourinhos Porto that cost us the Champions league….
Totally out of point.But heres a good laugh!
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/06052009/58/champions-league-arsenal-fan-hangs-himself.html
Excellent piece, well argued, Scott. Another comparison worth mentioning is United’s reaction when Mourhino’s Porto put us out of the Champions Lge with a late goal in 2004 after Scholes had had a good goal inexplicably ruled out by the ref. No screaming or ranting, just disciplined dismay. Also the Chelsea behaviour last night should make the FA look again at how they judged the Chelsea staff involved in the notorious Evra affair, when he so unjustly got a 4-match ban. (To be fair one should admit here that Rio lost it a bit on that occasion)
Having said all that, Chelsea were robbed by some of the worst reffing I can remember. Too many games are being spoiled by poor refs, in the Premiership, in the FA Cup, in the Carling Cup and now the Champions League. The problem has becone all pervasive and endemic, wherever top class football is played. The refs are just not good enough.
Macheda is God: The idea that a story about some tragically misguided man hanging himself over a football result is a ‘good laugh’ is utterly repulsive and should have no place on a site like this.
God, i hate terry
Macheda..i suggest you retract that statement pal.
Your comment above was very inapprpriate…Giles is right
poor form macheda….
Off topic @ Macheda is GOD: How on earth can that possibly be considered a good laugh? It’s people saying things like that that will be picked up on by the dippers/rent boyz/goons etc and be used to make United fans look like a bunch of c*nts. There is no other way of looking at it than an absolute tragedy – football is great, rivalry, banter and emotion for your club is great but when it goes that far (or even close to it) there is nothing to celebrate or laugh about.
On topic: I agree that Chelsea are a complete disgrace, and especially considering that UEFA seem to detest English clubs, fully expect Drog and Ballack to recieve length bans, which they probably deserve anyway. It should be noted in their defence that a number of their players were quite moderate in the protests though, give credit where it’s due for example Malouda (and his ridiculous haircut) realised Drog was out of line and tried to pull him away. I also wonder what Hiddink makes of Ballack, he condoned the behaviour provided they didn’t cross a line and touch the ref – Ballack did, will he then be internally sanctioned? Doubt it, but it’s a possibility anyway…
Dont be a tit Macheda….
Thats not a laugh, its just sick.
Drogba has nothing to complain about. He missed numerous opportunities over and over to put Barcelona to bed, both last game and this game.
He should go home and rant to himself in the mirror, because he single-handedly could have won Chelsea a trip to Rome, but failed repeatedly. Stonewalled by Valdez…Didier played utterly pathetic.
And come on…anyone who has followed football for more than half a second knows that if you play that way, putting all your hopes and dreams on the off chance that you’ll be able to stop someone from scoring a goal for 180 minutes…you’re playing with serious fire, and you’re just putting yourself in a position to get crushed by some random play. And that’s exactly what happened.
And hand it to Barcelona. They had 10 men. Messi and Eto’o were pathetic. The got blunted for the entirety of two games. And still they fought. Chelsea should have put a second goal in to seal the deal, but they didn’t, and Barcelona kept firing, even when it seemed like there was no hope…and it paid off.
If you’re going to pin your hopes on your ability to stop a team like Barcelona from scoring for 3 hours when they’re constantly on attack, then you’d better be ready to accept it when your strategy inevitably falls through.
lads,
we all know englands brave john terry got his class from his mothers side eh? thieving scag…..
I have nothing but hatred for john terry, hence my username. He is disgrace not only to humans, but also reptiles, insects, and marsupials. The reason drogba, michael bullocks, and the rest of the rent mob behave the way they do is because they are allowed to. They should be heavily reprimanded, but I’m not holding my breath. The ref was actually too scared to turn around when bullocks was chasing him. I didn’t know if I should have been angry or have had a good laugh. I predict a slight slap on the wrist to the rent boys that will later be rescinded. But everyone is right…the rent mob was robbed.
Hi guys,
thought I would enlist some help here… I made a joke to my Chelsea supporting mate that goes as follows
‘I think my sat nav is broken, I typed in Chelsea, and it said 2 minutes from Rome’
now, sure he is bitter, but he remarked that he hopes Man U have some plane problems again… so far out of line… anyways, his email address is dracoscave@hotmail.com – please spam him with abuse.
John Ferry you know what i like your namesake?That as soon as he sheds a tear the whole country will be at his feet.If he was to come out and issue a public apology about last night,they could make him a Sir before they made Giggs one!
A disgrace to the sport of football.
Chelski are the disgrace, but I think more so for their actions during the game.
Have you ever seen so much cheating in 90 mins? If it was United I would be f’ing embarrassed. And how many times did a blue shirt pass the ball to a blue shirt last night? Maybe 8 total? The first player to win back possession closes his eyes and punts it down field every single f’ing time!! They’re terrible. I’m so relieved we get to play an actual football team in the final, and not that bunch of douche bags.
Drew Vader as i said above,you have to think who shaped all of these players.Mourinho.They are still handling business his way.
@suhayl
I know you hate chelsky and what they stand for in the game. I must be abnormal because i still do feel discusted at what happened last night.
If a ref can be soo poor or so biased what ever way you want to put it in the semi final of the champions league there is something wrong.
Im glad chelsky went out! I really am.
But for me there is no place in the game for dodgy decisions as bad as that! If it happens again in the final and we head away from rome because the ref was so poor and got so many major decisions wrong. i would be gutted!
Wouldnt you be?
trevor
it will work in our favour.. with all this bias nonsense floating about no ref alive will be bias to barca in the final… think about it… all the media up in arms saying pratini doesnt want an english winner etc… we will have afair ref in Rome guaranteed
What an arselicking cunt that Oliver Holt is. Terry is a cunt, who is a disgraceful captain with no morales or leadership skills. Can you imagine his reaction if Rooney behaved like that!? What is it with these people. Chelsea players have no class. I thought Arsenal players were bad losers, when they had the likes of Vieira and monkey man Keown, but these crop of twats tops that for me. We have been fucked over with decisions, most notably this seasons Cup semi, and last seasons defeat to Portsmouth in the FA Cup Quarter-Final, but none of our players behaved in the way the Chelsea players did last night.
I know that the Chelsea players were upset, but their behaviour was outrageous. Regardless of the ref’s decisions, he’s still a fucking person and has a family…whatever happened to basic decency for fellow human beings??
i would love to hear a comment from the FSW, lol. he might bring in some new facts about the penalty decisions and sir alex paying the referee!
but honestly: why care? i give a shit on chelsea’s behaviour, i learnt nothing new last night (knew it before them being a bunch of cunts), i don’t care who we play in rome, we beat them anyways.
lol – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53uh5-67tjM
Definitely inexcusable…Id be mad if UEFA let crazy drog get away unscathed…he’s certainly pesticised his brains..and ballack too…Running after the ref like that for 40 yards…I was almost hoping he’d trip the ref…Wouldve loved that to happen…Chelsea aren’t the only team ever to have been robbed…I completely agree with scott..They couldve behaved properly and let the media hype on UEFA’s poor standards…But instead theyve butchered that opportunity…Like the whole world is conspiring against them..
The conspiracy theory is completely RIDICULOUS!! After sending off abidal wrongly(though he shouldve been sent off before, but two wrongs dont make a right!) the twats talk about conspiracy??? After 10 men played bravely to fight back for their goal??? No dude…def not…Go get some brains..and see ya next year!! Hopefully with another european cup on OUR side..pansy losers
one more negative of facing a team like barcelona is that we dont have hargraves and fletcher
das that is a negative but i think that Scholes and Giggs will have a better game against Barca than against Chelsea because they won’t play at the same tempo.
I guess it came out right when i said a “laugh”.Just not thinking what i type
hahaha drogba remix…hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VuZnAoZJ_g
Costas your first post about Mourinho shaping the player’s egos was spot on. He developed the seige mentality that has now grown into a monster.
Just checked my sat nav and its sayin chelsea’s 2 mins from rome! hahaahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahah. Drogbas Fu*kin hiliarious.
@macheda is god – that was a sick statement. Nothing to laugh about with that story. it’s a f*ckin tragedy and definitely not a comedy…
Least the guy came out and apologised.
May have something to do with the PR department of Chelsea though!
Scott @13:42: “having a man wrongly sent off in your favour with 20 mins to go does NOT make up for two or three penalties.”
I don’t believe that I made that equation – what I said was that the penalties were (as always) “discretionary”, just like offsides decisions. As it happened, four calls went against the RentBoyz but don’t forget that one went in their favour last week and another one yesterday which infuriated the Barcelona team just as the persistent fouling enraged them.
Did they get into the referee’s head – did this referee have a head ? Or was he just incompetent – surely the call against Abidal suggests incompetence.
The fact that this guy normally works in low-pressure Norway and fucked-up in one of this two Euro2008 assignments makes one wonder how he was chosen for such a high-stakes match.
What I wanted to point out – and why I disagreed with your original comment – is that the RentBoyz were given plenty of opportunity to win the game and they spurned it by playing cautiously, even when they were a man up after Abidal was sent off.
With regard to the “penalty shouts” – Pique was ball-to-hand; Eto’o was clearly hand-to-ball as he turned his back to the shooter and it hit him in his outstretched arm (same as Gary Neville last year against Reading, if memory serves); the clutch on Drogba was outside the area; so, too, was the wrestling match with Malouda. So, if the Eto’o “shout” was given then the RentBoyz might have been given a get-out-of-jail card but as we’ve seen over-and-over-and-over again there’s just no legislating for the complete and utter unpredictability of refereeing decisions.
As I wrote: “you can argue about the two handball decisions last night as well as the inconclusive wrestling matches. Without video replay – and maybe even with it ! – these situations are often inconclusive since it’s not a matter of one man being 100 per cent “at fault” but rather shades of gray.”
Even allowing for the most pessimistic reading of the RentBoyz’ “penalty shouts”, they have little reason to have gone ballistic. They got the rub of the green, so to speak, when they had been incorrectly awarded a man-advantage AND they had a fair number of scoring chances – Drogba’s two stand out in my aging memory – yet didn’t take advantage.
As Giles Oakley wrote at 15:37: when UTD were jobbed in the quarter-finals against Porto there was “No screaming or ranting, just disciplined dismay.” It’s a bit of a stretch to think that “disciplined dismay” is a Chel$ki characteristic but when the screaming and ranting dies down – as it inevitably will – their more level-headed fans (assuming they have some of them) will look back on this evening and rue their reliance on Didier Drogba and Hiddink’s weak-kneed tactics when another goal would have killed off Barcelona.
Blaming the other guy – blaming the ref – is like blaming the sun for rising in the east and setting in the west. Like I said earlier – and many, many times before – shitty refereeing decisions are built into the fabric of footie – and will remain so as long as the game is run by ostriches who refuse to take their heads out of the sand.
WhatTheFuck – Viva Ronaldo !
@denton davey- not really trying to defend those scums for the bridge but honestly. Both handball were stonewall penalties. Anelka has flicked the ball pass Pique and it was obviously blocked using the hand denying a goal scoring opportunities, true you could argue it was ball to hand. but the hand should never have stretched out that far anyways. Defenders are taught to pull their hands close to their body at all times!
Same for Ballack’s shot against Eto’o, it was definitely a penalty. You really can’t jump with your hands stretched up like that. It’s simply poor defending and it invites trouble.
I hate Chelski and i think we are playing the weaker side in the final in the form of the Blaugrana but those were definitely stonewall penalties. Not gonna talk about the other appeals since those fouls are so easily given and sometimes not given depending on the referee in charge.
denton davey is right.
not the outrageous pen decisions but it think that the number of them this what made this so outrageous especially for the Chelsea players.
only one the pens without the replay was 100% – Pique’s handball.
Denton, good post but we hardly covered ourselves in glory in 2000 against Borough.
But I have to say Chelsea are a English footballing disgrace led by that thug Terry who defends Drogba, he should have never been given captaincy in
the first place, but that neither here or there.
Also the Rent Boyz would be through now if Ballack hadn’t ducked out of the way of Iniesta’s shot, but I am sure that was the referees fault also.
Drogba calling the ref a disgrace then behaving disgracefully?? That sort of sums them up.
denton davey
they were leading 1-0. shaky score. no way they would have run to score the second.
yes, in some matter they could have at least sent 3-4 players to end the issue but this is not about this years Hiidink’s Chelsea.
JT is considered to be a role model ( captain of Che & England ) LMFAO
Much as I am United through and through, the holier than thou attitude of United fans here disgusts me. I’d have backed Rooney and co. to beat the hell out of a referee who would do that to us. We keep on complaining when its one penalty decision against us, what about 3+ decision. Get off the high horses please ffs!
As much as Rooney is hated he has never done anything like this.
Many times he escapes the punishment for his actions because english referees know what he is all about – nothing malicious. nothing quite like this.
Complaining is one thing.But cornering referees and sticking fingers at their face is another.And even at that point, i would have been more fed up with my manager if he didn’t do his job properly.And i think that Hiddink did make big mistakes last night.
Costas, why did he not bring Mikel on for essien, that wild swipe which ended up at the feet of Messi was done through sheer tiredness
They definitely needed another central midfielder to cut Barca in half or maybe a winger to cause them problems.I was amazed at how alone Pique was in those final minutes.
But one thing is worrying me the most.
What has happened with the spirit of the game ? Endless moaning about not given penalties etc. Yes, the ball catched Pique’s arm and what ? He didn’t try to play the ball with his arm. Endless cheating – this is a disgrace.
A 200 pound men are falling after the slight challenge in order to earn a penalty decision. Just play fucking football!
I think this game just headlined what football is all about nowadays.
I would put Ronaldo’s petulance in that same category corea.I don’t know.I think that moaners are starting to become a permanent fixture in football.
@ costas
there is not much you can do with the culture where Ronaldo was raised.
At least he is brave, i doubt you can call Drogba brave. And some of the cheating from him has a direct connection with the treatment he received.
By the way Drogba has apologized for his behaviour.
You can’t fool the world Didier. You can forget one episode but this wasn’t the first time.
I dont think our brains deserve to be subjected to this moral dialema of rights and wrongs of our much detested rivals. With the blip, mike royal E, and all that, We have endured enough this season already! ( and if remember correctly the only time anyone cared, was to check weather the knife neede to be twisted a bit more). So the bottom line- Chelski Can Go To Hell.
http://www.setanta.com/us/Articles/Football/2009/02/02/Prem-Bosingwa-apology/gnid-38254/
Another apology. Another freak. Ugly team. The 2000 team i quite liked but this is totally opposite.
Who gives a flying fuck about the rentboys game anyway? Fuck em… they lost by not scoring more of them goal things than the the other lot.
Hiddink fucked up tacticly by playing to conservativly.
As for Chelsea as a club …..Fuck em all …. remember Evra getting banned cos of them cunts???
To be honest Corea,Drogba is the least of my worries.He is an African player that lets his insticts get the best of him because he hasn’t had the great childhood that others have had.And remember that Mourinho was the coach that taught him a lot of this crap.But what about Terry and Ballack?They,as two most experienced and well schooled players, have a bigger responsibility than Drogba.I didn’t see Lampard in any of these scenes did i?Love him or hate him,the man puts football first and then everything else.
Bang on RN mate…. fuck em all
@ costas
Ronaldo’s childhood wasn’t the happiest ever also. at least he is brave and it partially justifies his behaviour.
yes, we are blessed we don’t have this cunt Ballck in our team. i can not even spell his name. what a disgrace as a footballer and a human beeing.
disgusting.
Ronaldo had it rough as well,agreed.At least he had Fergie and Quieoz to nurture him in the proper way.He is not perfect but he doesn’t cross the line as much.I think Ballack envisions himself as the next Effenberg.Fat chance.
@ costas
good night costas. love you.
i’m a happy person who supports the right kind of team. i won’t have another choice but to support United no matter what.
But i hope it will rather be the team without a trophy for some years than the team like Chelsea. hope is our only hope. we can’t lose our identity and dignity.
We are ManUnited (c)
The day when Rooney dived against Villareal was one of the most embarrassing days of my life.
I was also disappointed in Keane after the D’Urso incident but in his book and in past interviews he has given an apology.His line that “no human being deserves to be treated like that” still rings in my head.Goodnight Corea.
Scott, how many professional football matches have you played in? You’re clueless. ‘Nuff said.
@ Duncan : what are u about in here ? have you not read all the comments above ? we are referring to Che players disgraceful behaviour which u seem to like.just fuck off from here
I agree with everything SUHAYL said, minus all the &%#$* words.
Bring on Barca!
it would be interesting to see how our united players would’ve reacted if the exact same scenario played out against us…
Suhayl mate,i agree with you, but i’ve got different opinions about some of the points you brought up.
First let’s say that what happened at the Bridge was absolutely disgraceful,the ref was inept and i’m not only talking about the so called stonewall penalties but also abidal’s red card.That’s what happens when a ref gets a couple of calls wrong and then he tries to make up for those mistakes,anyway this doesn’t excuse at all the post match reaction by Drogba and Ballack,personally i think they’ve got what they deserved,Ballack is a formidable player but he’s also a dirty cunt that more often then not gets away with his late tackles,and Drogba…well the lad is an absolute disgrace,cheating diving fuck if there’s ever been one. Obviously the ABU press brigade in England will be more than happy to highlight the ref’s mistakes rather than the carnival that went on after the final whistle,and this because it’s the Rentboyz.Had Rooney done what Drogba did he would have been absolutely murdered by the press,just look at how they treated him when he got sent off against Villareal in 2005 or against Fulham this season,how many times have we heard the “he’s a bad example cos he can’t control himself” line? Finally,i don’t buy the conspiracy theory,mainly cos i hate teams/players who seem to have to rely on this things to find excuse in case of defeat, but i do agree that UEFA would rather see Barca win the trophy than us because,as mentioned by a lot of people,Platini has never made mystery of disliking English clubs. That said,what happened against Chelsea and all the whinging of the ABU press brigade might give us an advantage because that ref would have to be extremely careful otherwise it’d really seem that Barca “must” win the cup to make people happy at UEFA. I’d rather play Barca than the Rentboyz anyway because i couldn’t be arsed with listening to John Terry talking about revenge for 3 weeks,let alone with him actually gettin his revenge…
guys what’s your opinion on this article by Martin Tyler.i guess Giggsy to reach 100 first.
What is fascinating me at the moment is the race between Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs to reach 100 Premier League goals. I was at The Riverside on Saturday to see the latter pull level with a fine strike as United took a step closer to the Premier League title with a 2-0 win. Giggs’ goal means they are both just two short of the magical milestone with 98 apiece. Ryan’s have come from 520 Premier League appearances while Paul’s have come from 414. Overall for United, Ryan is also ahead in the goal stakes having scored a total of 148 goals in his 802 appearances compared to his mate’s 142 in 602 games. The pair both played brilliantly at Middlesbrough in orthodox central midfield roles but with just two league goals apiece this season, might not make these pages for hitting 100 until next season! Giggs though does have 100 league goals to his name having scored more than two in the old Division One.
i don’t give a f@#K who win coz i know whenever man utd in the final, we’re gonna be a champions
Can we please move on from this Scott, there’s a derby coming up you know.
Sorry mate, but Chelsea just plain bores me.
John Terry has said Chelsea was robbed against Barcelona. But in reaction to that a tesco spokesman said now he knows how we feel when his mum walks in to our store
Paul the red: nice one mate, LMFAO
dont know if you lot seen the news last night where a member of the norweign football league was slating the refs performance.. in a nice way.
Something like “after a performance like that making so many major mistakes i dont think he has done his international carreer any good. I dont know where he is going to go from here!”
I just hope Ueafa learn from this and dont inflict an injustice as this on any other team.
If it was us id be gutted!
lol@Paul the red..
Everyone is talking about the performance of the referee,not the linesmen.They are supposed to help the referee.They were miserable.How could they not have seen that Abidal didn’t touch Anelka,or that Pique handled it in the box and prevented a goalscoring opportunity ,or that Abidal tugged Drogba’s shirt and brought him down without touching the ball,or that when the referee blew for the foul on Malouda,Malouda and Alves were in the box?Granted,some were difficult,but the others were in plain sight.
That said,I hate Chelsea and am glad they aren’t in the final because I think they are tougher opposition than Barcelona.Oh,also,I hate Messi and think he’s overrated.
Just thought I’d throw my 2 cents in there.
(If any of what I said was there earlier,I apologise for posting the same thing.)
Breaking news: Wes Brown out for the remainder of season with foot injury.
FUCK!!Poor Wes.
Not sure if Scott put this in his links of the day, but over on Skysports.com they have have a “Scouting Report” on the Serbian lad Adem Ljajic thats joining up in January…. The scout was rather impressed I must say, check out this quote…
“One of the most talented youngsters we have looked at. He has all the attributes to make it to the very top, and what better place to hone his talents than Manchester United.”
http://www.skysports.com/football/transfers/scout
COULDNT HAPPEN TO A NICER TEAM FUCK EM ALL . ID RATHER BARCA WIN THAN SOMEONE LIKE TINY TEARS GETTING HIS HANDS ON THE TROPHY ARROGANT CUNTS
Yeah they would be hard to live with if they had won… thats for sure!!
Trevor. Yes mate i do hate them…i hate em soooooo much you wouldnt believe. Infact there is only 1 thing i hate more than them and thats those scumbag dippers.
HOWEVER….i didnt go as far as others on here saying what chelski did was so bad. YES i hate doggy and his gang and that wasnt the behaviour we want to see.
BUT put us in the same place and if that happened to us….id personally issue death threats and find that overebo myself. And id want wazza and vida to completely clatter him.
If you suffer such an injustice…then we are humans…we have to let it out…we aint robots. And Refs cannot get away with murder and then walk away and officiate the week after without a fuckin care in the world. Then they cry respect.
For me they have way tooooooooooo much power and unlimited power.
Other sports brought in technology years ago yet…we are in the biggest best sport in the world living in the dark ages. And are allowing miscarriages of justice.
As for the guy who said ball to hand crap…dont be such a melon.
Maloudas was a pen.
Doggy shirt pull and trip was a pen.
Piques was A STONEALL PEN….BLOODY HELL…YOU CANT GET MORE BLATANT THAN THAT…..even pique himself has admitted that.
And lastly at first i thought eto’os wasnt a pen…due to him turning his back. But look closely…why turn your back and keep your left arm…blocking the flight of the ball raised up. He was clever he knew that ball was heading for the high corner of the net hence used him arm to block that ball. Clever lad knowing his body couldnt block the ball..he raised that one arm in line of the shot. Hence a pen
Right. BACK TO OUR TEAM
By not taking internal disciplinary actions, Chelsea are condoning those disgraceful actions by their players. Match delegate Janis Mezeck has also witnessed bottles being thrown from the crowd. UEFA should mete out more severe punishments on Chelsea and its players. Football certainly wouldn’t miss them if they are banned!