Chelsea should just shut up and play football

After all the things they put Barca through Chelsea have been beaten by one thing they can't control, football. They allowed a pitch to deteriorate to sub-standard levels, then they don't allow Barcelona to play on the pitch. Which if you have to be perfectly honest was pretty daft given that the likes of Ronaldinho, Messi, Eto'o and Deco honed their footballing skills on pitches worse than the one they gave to the catalans. Man for man, it is no competition on a skill level. While Chelsea can get away with bullying the likes of Colchester and Liverpool they can't do the same with knights of Catalunya.

Now I am not a big fan of red cards but if you carry on the way that bloke Del Horno had been last night the ref has to do something to protect the players. People will say the lad looked up and engaged a wee-bit of gamesmanship but let's suppose he had stayed down and let the chelsea left back clatter into him with his knee probably to the ribs. Del Horno had gotten away with more than his fair share of bad tackle, remember when he raked his studs into the young Messi's leg. Noone in my opinion put this case quite as quaintly as Henry Winter for the Daily Telegraph

Already desperately fortunate to have escaped sanction for one disgraceful follow-through on Messi, Del Horno finally lost it. Like a fire engine arriving too late to douse an inferno, Del Horno was a picture of frustration as he flew in on his nemesis. With a blatant bodycheck, he caught Messi hard and high, sending the Barcelona No 30 thudding to the floor, ripping Frank Rijkaard from his dug-out seat and ensuring every outfield player charged to the crime scene.

Chelsea were incensed as the referee, Terje Hauge, raised a red card with all the seriousness of a High Court judge handing down a life sentence. Chelsea claimed, in vain, that their left-back was guilty more of stupidity than malice but the departing Spaniard had been playing a risky game for a while
Perhaps the Chelsea jaggernaut is beginning to feel the strain. Perhaps the special one is not so special and noone is surprised really that he is complaining. They may have the strongest squad out there and the dirtiest tricks about but lkast night proved that at the end of the day, football will always win. And to that I say aye...
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