bigmick wrote:What an absolute embarrassment not just to Chelsea, but to football and to England as a country. As a proud Englishman and a lover of the game, I feel deeply embarassed by what has gone on here.
This Norwegian fella who is married with two kids, was spirited out of the country under police escort, and as his address was posted up on a website somewhere he hasn't been seen or heard in his neighbourhood, he's been advised to lie low. What a fecking diabolical carry on. This is a game of football, forget what Shanks said, it's a game of football and if he made a couple of mistakes, ultimately, really, so the feck what?
Be disappointed by all means, throw your toys out of the pram for sure, but conspiracy theories? Feck off. What if Inniesta's shot goes over the bar, what then? Do they play on for another 90 minutes so Barcelona can have another shot? Does anybody with an ounce of intellgence think that this man (the ref) was/is dishonest, that he is on a "bung"?
The scenes at the time were bad enough, but it drags on. It's nothing short of a disgrace, and I'll tell you this, if I were UEFA (who are a fecking joke to be quite honest) I wouldn't be reassuring anyone that this ref won't get games at this level again. I'd ban Chelsea from Europe for two seasons, ban whichever players were involved for two years regardless of who they are playing for.
It's time to stop this sh!t. You've got the absolutely excellent Ray Winstone adverts about respect, then you've got some fecking idiot who spends three quarters of every match hurling himself to the turf writhing about in agony, sprinting onto the pitch in flip flops after the game has finished to tell us all it's a fecking disgrace. He's right, it is. The fecking disgrace is c...s like him should have been brought to book a long time ago.
I've no doubt he won't be reading any football forums, but perhaps Heimdall could pass it on as he probably knows the blokes uncle or something (it's like that over here and there's a similar population).
Heimdall pass it on for me mate, I apologise on the behalf of English people and English football supporters. I apologise on behalf of every fan of a premier league team. To the ref (sorry mate can't remember your name right now), I say sorry for all the sh!t. Tell the truth mate, I think you porobably made a couple of mistakes, but we've all made them. Don't make another by letting this bunch of c...s ruin your life.
Had a few when you wrote this Mick? 
Seriously though, it's bang on. Football IS JUST A GAME. Pity so many seem to forget that. Unfortunately football fandom can be one of the dumbest collectives on the planet and the willingness (not just of Chelsea fans) to latch onto idiotic notions of conspiracy and fixes at the drop of a hat is a perfect example of that foolishness.
I have to be honest and say that, Chelsea has some fine players on their side, like Frank Lampard, Deco and Peter Cech. But it's the likes of Dider Drogba who drag them down and it's not only Chelsea that gets dragged down by him and his ilk, it's the whole sport in general.
There's a few Chelsea fans I have contact with and they were disgusted by Drogba's behavior on the night and further embarrassed by all the subsequent nonsense.
Sure, the ref had what I would consider to be a bad night, but on reviewing that match, I'd say the worst two cases were his sending off of Abidal and not awarding Chelsea a penalty after Malouda was clearly fouled inside the box. As far as I'm concerned the other penalty claims were nothing of the sort.
Frankly, I think Malouda had a bid of negative karma come his way (even though I don't believe in Karma ), as he'd been dropping himself like a sack of spuds every time Alves came within a foot of him. So, it's difficult to feel sorry when a decision didn't go his way.
The Chelsea players in question should take note of how Frank Lampard conducted himself. He clapped the crowd, put his head down and walked quietly off the pitch...and in that moment, showed himself to be 10 times the player that Drogba is.
