A crap referee, yesterday.
Absolutely disgracefully bad. I’m talking about the referee, of course. The referee’s performance was labelled as ‘the worst I’ve seen‘ by Guus Hiddink, and you have to say he has a point. It all started so well. Big Michael Essien sent Stamford Bridge bonkers in the ninth minute with a majestic volley that gave clown Valdes no chance as it crashed in off the bar.
Early in the second half, Drogba had a great chance to double Chelsea’s lead but his shot was unable to beat Valdes, who made a decent save. With 25 minutes to go Barça’s task looked impossible when they were reduced to ten men, Eric Abidal getting sent off for a ‘foul’ on sneaky cheating diving Anelka. Three minutes into injury time and it all went pear-shaped for the blues, Andres Iniestagrabbing the late, late equaliser, earning the crucial away goal to send Barcelona into the final against Manchester United. That was the visitors’ only shot on target throughout the entire game, rubbing salt into deep wounds caused by four (4) decent penalrty shouts rejected by the Norwegian berk of a referee.
Chelsea were rightly furious at the final whistle, with Didier Drogba facing potential Uefa sanction after furiously confronting the referee Tom Henning Ovrebo before turning to the television camera to shout that the official was an ‘f-ing disgrace.’
Increasingly middle-aged and increasingly disillusioned by modern football, I want to share with you how good football used to be before it was ruined by money. 
