worst referee ever

[Dinand]

don't hate chelsea and they should have had at least two pens. on the plus side, as a red i would much rather play against barca, both full backs out and pique has no pace.

And Ferdinand and Vidic have?

[altarica]

I am not a Chelsea fan, but it is a fact that the little CUNT Platini has an abiding hatred of English teams.
Wouldn't surprise if the ref had his instructions.
It's also a fact that most Euro-continentals are a bunch of cheating sly fucks.

[MacShreach]

cricket and rugby - two sports with longer traditions -

That's not actually true, you know. Football (soccer) is a much older game than Rugby, which is derived from it. It was known in medieval times, when it was played in the streets and was in fact little more than a violent turf war, and Mary Queen of Scots is known to have watched football, played for her entertainment, while she was a prisoner at Carlisle Castle in the 16th Century.

Back to greeting into your beers now.

[altarica]

cricket and rugby - two sports with longer traditions -

That's not actually true, you know. Football (soccer) is a much older game than Rugby, which is derived from it. It was known in medieval times, when it was played in the streets and was in fact little more than a violent turf war, and Mary Queen of Scots is known to have watched football, played for her entertainment, while she was a prisoner at Carlisle Castle in the 16th Century.

Back to greeting into your beers now.

It is quite corect that Rugby, that fine and noble game for gentlemen of quality was derived from the game of football.

[irvin66]

He is Norwegian!!!!!!!!!

[blckhaze]

dislike chelsea, and As a man u fan happy to see barca in the final to hopefully do better than our semi last year, but that ref was garbage. That red for abidal was not called for. The was NO intent and anelka tripped on his own feet before clipping abidals toes while running full speed. iF any card needed be shown it was whoever put Maluda on his ass in the box. The hand ball claims were bs though. Not in a semi, maybe chelsea hull, but in a semi where both teams got shorted by the ref. Only things he did right.

I didnt want chelsea in the final again, because it would've been a lil dull tactics wise on chelseas part, but not like this. Especially with barca eing half strength at the back. its a lose lose really. If we win, Barca can say the player missing wouldve made a diff, If we lose......well we lost to a weak barca team.

[MacShreach]

cricket and rugby - two sports with longer traditions -

That's not actually true, you know. Football (soccer) is a much older game than Rugby, which is derived from it. It was known in medieval times, when it was played in the streets and was in fact little more than a violent turf war, and Mary Queen of Scots is known to have watched football, played for her entertainment, while she was a prisoner at Carlisle Castle in the 16th Century.

Back to greeting into your beers now.

It is quite corect that Rugby, that fine and noble game for gentlemen of quality was derived from the game of football.

Well, you know what they say, don't you? Football: Played by gentlemen for the benefit of hooligans; Rugby: Played by hooligans for the benefit of gentlemen....

[Dinand]

First 1 off-topic question for blckhaze: Who's that girl in your avatar.

Second: The ref gave Abidal a wrong red card, Anelka took another dive like he and Drogba were doing all night. So the ref was just bad, not just towards Chelsea and like I've said before, nobody would talk about the ref if Essien had hit that ball out of the box.

[PEPE3Z]

i heard that the chelsea players were screaming in the dressingroom and int arreas about conspiracy against the english clubs so that there would not be to english sides in he finals.
Barca did not deserve to draw 63% possesion wich they did next to nothing with. Vid. replay needs to happen and for that matter they need to ditch the away goal rule i mean 0-0 and 1-1 should be overtime . Stupid old farts over at fifa

ANOTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY ?. LOL.
LET ME TELL YOU THIS: POSSESION OR GOALS ARE NOT DESERVED, POSSESION IS TAKEN AND GOALS ARE SCORED.

[tstv_lover]

cricket and rugby - two sports with longer traditions -

That's not actually true, you know. Football (soccer) is a much older game than Rugby, which is derived from it. It was known in medieval times, when it was played in the streets and was in fact little more than a violent turf war, and Mary Queen of Scots is known to have watched football, played for her entertainment, while she was a prisoner at Carlisle Castle in the 16th Century.

Back to greeting into your beers now.

It is quite corect that Rugby, that fine and noble game for gentlemen of quality was derived from the game of football.

Thanks for correcting this MacShreach and altarica. My main point was that lovers of 2 traditional games were dubious about introduction of video referees to aid the referee/umpire in decision making, however this has worked well with both sports. Why is FIFA and UEFA so opposed to the idea of even trialling use of video technology to improve decision making? One other benefit, given the immediate aftermath of the Chelsea match, is that the Video referee is able to make a call based on all angles, slow-motion, etc without players yelling in his ear!