A Chelsea fan.. moans.

Well, here goes. Was reading soccernet.com the other day and was absolutely shocked by what this chelsea fan wrote on his ESPNsoccernet blog. Have no clue how did he even get to be chelsea's correspondent, a disgrace, yes, you, a F***ing disgrace. Pretty much sums up what chelsea's fans are, moaning about the refs decisions. The ref's decisions for Barca are also wrong, and its only 2 good penalty appeals, so who F***ing cares? Only 2 and if you cant convert your one to one chances Dogba, youre a F***ing disgrace! They should have got the game wrapped and sealed up without the penalties, and sitting back after Abidal's red? 

You only got yourself to blame. What happened to us in Japan in 2005? Stop complaining, get up and grow up. Just aint fated to win it after 5 managers, and 600 million pounds spent on players. Admit it.

Clown referee
Posted by Andy Thornton 4 days, 1 hour ago

This is an absolute JOKE! Chelsea fans across the world are still in shock after being screwed by Drogba's reputation, a clown of a referee and probably UEFA. FOUR penalty appeals! FOUR, but not one given! It wasn't that we didn't play well, it wasn't that we messed up our tactics, it wasn't that we had the wrong players on - we're not going to the Champions League Final because of one man, and his awful decisions.

Never before has such a magnificent, footballing side been so brutally cheated. Drogba was right - the ref was a disgrace! I fully support all the players actions - Ballack was right to try and wrestle a good decision out of him, Terry was right to confront the ref at the end and Droggers was right to tell the nation the truth!

How can a professional referee perform so badly? The man has reffed in the Champs League for the last seven years but he looked like he couldn't handle a Sunday League match - not least because his dumpy figure doesn't seem to get round the pitch anywhere near fast enough! It wasn't just Chelsea who were complaining about the Ref - the Barca bench were screaming at him as well.

So many dodgy decisions - obvious penalties missed, tackles going unpunished, even throw-ins badly called. The sending off that I'm happy to admit wasn't a sending off. And those appeals. The first may not have been considered 'denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity' but what about when the guy wrenched back Drogba? What about when Pique handled in the box? Pique had practically started walking off the field for goodness sakes?!

At the death he had a chance to put it all right - when the ball clearly struck a Barca arm in the box. Clear as day. And nothing. Nothing!

People are calling for Darren Fletcher's case to be reviewed to let him play in the final, but a more pressing matter for UEFA should be organising a replay of this joke of a game, with a proper referee this time, to see who actually deserves to go through to Rome!

He should have been arrested by his police protectors who had to get him to the airport - because his decisions were criminal!

It's an absolute disgrace that the ref gave such a shocking performance, and we can only assume that there are people at the top of the European game who don't want us to proceed, that don't want an all English final. And that's worse.

http://blogs.soccernet.com/chelsea/archives/2009/05/clown_referee.php
Still dare to call urself a soccernet correspondent?

Chelsea, Chelsea. What goes around comes around.

The referee may have harshly got some decisions wrong but you CANNOT put the entire blame on him.
Why do you need to depend on the referee to get your to the final? Maybe you guys should have gone for the away goal instead of parking the bus knowing Barcelona have the quality to score. Maybe you should have went for a second goal in the 2nd leg. Why sit back, relax, appeal for penalties and put the blame on the referee? If it was a conspiracy of not having an all English final again, why didn't Barcelona get a penalty when Bosingwa pulled Henry down in the box? Why was Abidal sent off for nothing?

Against Liverpool, you got tons of soft free kicks. Even scored offside goals against us last year. How about Steven Gerrard's free kick goal against Stoke at Anfield? If that was offside, then Fabregas' goal against Boro should be offside. How about Liverpool in 2005? Scoring 3 goals which were all ruled out. But I'm pretty sure, Liverpool FC would never react the same way as you did. Sometimes handballs are given and sometimes they aren't. How can you expect a player to jump to block a shot with his hands straight beside his body? or even take his hand away when his back is facing the goal?

Liverpool were also undone by Inzaghi's goal which too a deflection off his arm. Now, we didn't win the Champions League because of one man too then? But Steven Gerrard nor Jamie Carragher went ranting at the referee.

Take a look at your team. Ballack, Drogba, J.Cole, Terry, Anelka and Malouda. All of them have reputations. Maybe the referee should have said 'disgrace' to them all. This is football and things like that will happen.

"magnificent, footballing side"

From that, it's clear they didn't watch the game. Chelsea sat behind the ball and had 1 or 2 chances on the counter and then sat back and after they went down to 10, Chelshit, who should have taken the initiative sat behind the ball.

And if you can't hold out a lead when there is a minute left..