Comments on: Chelsea 1-1 Barcelona – Live Blog – UEFA Champions League – 6 May 2009

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:07:52 +0000

UEFA should do something about officiating next time

By: elZorro

elZorro — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:54:34 +0000

And to that mate and Barza’s ‘fan’ name ‘christos’, somebody ought tell him that the controversial game took place in Stamfordbridge! Not at Camp Nou…

By: elZorro

elZorro — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:39:41 +0000

Damn! You guys still rilling about this chit?! Get over it… Barza won, that’s football! Now, enjoy the Final!

By: Christos

Christos — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:54:20 +0000

meant to say Stamford bridge…

By: Christos

Christos — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:57:20 +0000

I am a Barcelona fan, but still think what happened at Camp Nou was horrible…

I think it is time cameras are offcially installed to help refs do their work.

About 6 pens were not given to Chelsea there…

By: Andre Polinsky

Andre Polinsky — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:02:38 +0000

that is football. sometimes these things go the way of your team and sometimes it doesnt. i doubt the chelsea fans would be whining this much if the ref made some decisions in favour of them.

By: jacko

jacko — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:49:49 +0000

By: jacko

jacko — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:47:42 +0000

It is a shame that winners of football games are decided by men in suits at UEFA and by referees paid by them. That Norwegian referee was corrupt.He should never be allowed near a football again.

By: egeorge

egeorge — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:56:28 +0000

The one to blame here other than the ref is the UEFA because they will NOT do anything about it and it is because every week they have full stadiums, full seasons sold to TV and they “know” that the next week everything will be forgotten with the next match: the UEFA have no one to oppose them, plain and simple it is a MONOPOLY with the fact that they do not take any actions to improve their product. Most professional sports take care in having ref’s in every reasonable place where there could be a source of problems to have it as close to the real facts as possible (like in basketball where there are 3 ref’s all the time). Yes footbal has 3 of them but only one is really close to the action and he is not always that close and can’t see everything and the other two are too far for these close calls, most of the time they guess their calls. Just think for a moment what about having a second ref running the court, my guess is that it will help more than hurt and could bring a more realistic result to every game.
The game is over and can not be replayed, the chances to be in a UEFA Champions final is over for some players that even with the right of been there won’t be because the poor calls from a person that maybe doesn’t even play footbal. All people that has the power as a unit or a group should push for actions from the UEFA and from the FIFA.

By: lala

lala — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:45:33 +0000

Alves, Messi, Eto’o and Iniesta were the reason that goal was scored so stop acting as though they did nothing.
Alves corssed to Eto’o(this was the point where the ball could have been defended by Chelsea) it went to Messi who made the clever decision of passing it to Iniesta(who had all teh space in the world and NO defender to steal the ball, he had the time tot think about the shot and thats why chelsea lost)

Barca have a reputaion for being unpredicatble…in the first leg, they dominated, had a million chances but didnt get them in and chelsea will regret not taking advantage of them in the first leg. The second leg, Barca had no shots but it only took them one shot because of Chelsea opening up.
They said themselves that they will make Chelsea regret that they didnt score any away goals…

I think Barca defended quite wrll actually and i was especially impressed by Pique, Toure and Abidal and especially Valdes who took care of all the Chelsea shots.

Its a shame that 2 of the defenders wont play the final but Man u have Fletcher red carded as well so Barca can take advantage of that.
I espect the back line to be something like :
Toure
Pique
Puyol
Sylvinho

The return of Puyol will pretty much make the back line a lot more confident!