Chelsea took their Champions League exit in good spirits.

:-)

out last year. I hope Monkey chokes on Barca's big stick.

Looking forward to Barcelona destroying ManUre.

was mortifyingly bad. Bad red card yesterday, worse one today. There's a photo out there showing a Barca defender play the ball with his hand in his box with the ref looking right at it, unobstructed, no more than maybe twenty feet away. Nuttin'. And it happened again in the dying seconds of the game. Nuttin' again. Utterly shocking.

That Norwegian ref needs to get his eyes checked, unless UEFA secretly told him to overlook anything that would help Chelsea return to the Champions League final in Rome. :tinfoilhat: Somehow I can;t help but imagining Plantini giving the ref an bonus in his game check :rofl:

Having said that, Ballack and Drogba lost their collective minds!!!! I know it's the heat of the moment--it's the second leg of the Champions League semi-final, and you never know if you'll make it that far again. I had to change the channel when Drogba dropped the f-bomb while being dragged off--I had my 7 year old nephrew watching with me.

Chelsea could have made things alot easier for themselves, had they tried scoring in the first leg at the Camp Nou.

The more Chelsea hounded the referee every time some marginal decision didn't go their way, the more they dove and hacked and did everything possible in the margins of the rules to try to put the match beyond doubt, the more I found myself rooting for Barça. I was thrilled to see Iniesta drill that ball into the corner, and I'm beyond thrilled as a fan of the game at the prospect of a Man U-Barcelona final. Ballack, in particular, was appalling.

that was a horribly reffed game

He missed obvious fouls on Chelsea in the box and then sent a Barca guy off not only for a small infraction but replays showed NO INFRACTION. Oh and that was clearly a handball on the Barca guy-the first one not the second one.

I was rooting for Chelsea just because I like Drogba but that was a fantastic goal in extra time. Both goals were fantastic.

I am only a casual viewer. UEFA is basically my only window into this world.

It doesn't look good for Barca- Alves is out and so is the back on the other side of the field. I will be rooting for them though against Man U.