Referees in Europe dont give penalties to Chelsea

[L Essien]

Hello everyone, I would like to know your opinion on the referees against Chelsea in the Champions League. In my opinion we were not robbed yesterday but in both legs( away and home), there were 4 clear situations for penalties, none of them given, it is not a surprise after all. Yesterday night for example there are 2 actions inside Inter penalty box that are very clear, against Ivanovic and drogba. We can discuss on the malouda one, but the other 2 are in my opinion very clear, the referee was 5 yards away and he said stand up nothing happened. We are very unlucky with the referees in Europe. To win the Champions League, you need some luck on your side, something we dont have.

Mourinho spoke about history of frustration after the game, how clever he is, he mentioned all but what happened during this tie. He didnt mention about tonight appeals for penalty and also Italy.

I believe, have chelsea had the whole squad fit, no matter what mourinho made, we would go through, now take it like this, a weakened chelsea side, plus referees decisions plus poor performance from some of our players, and we are out again of this competition.

I believe this has shown that Chelsea need some signings specially in the middle during this summer, player such as Ballack, Lampard, Anelka, specially this three performed very poor, very quite match from them. When I look at Lampard I see a player who is consider the star or one of the stars at Chelsea, but in the last two seasons, specially in Champions League he did not perform as we expect from him. Same for Ballack tonight, he did nothing, same for anelka, same for Joe Cole, look Joe, you should have a look at your performances before ask a pay rise!.

Drogba once again sent off, however he tried very hard during the whole night, he was kicked time and time again, and at the end he lost his head again. But he shouldnt be treated as a vilan in fact he is being so far one of the reasons why we are at the top of the table.

I missed Essien a lot yesterday, what a player he is, how he commands in midfield, his distribution his tackles, he is an unbelievable player for us. Mikel is good but sometimes he is too slow, like yesterday.

[Barry Bridges]

look at our knockouts in EUFA, that will tell you all you need to know without our bias to possible"tint" the refs performance.

I wonder if there is a governing body Chelsea could ask to investigate EUFA on charges of fraud/conspiracy etc.

Series A got proven to of had match fixing years ago, why should we discount EUFA of doing the same? Especially with their vehemnt opposition to video technology that would take the power out match fixing out of ref hands.

[Phillip]

God dammit, the NHL instituted a two referee system a few years ago to deal with missing many infractions -- why doesn't the Stone Age football association known as UEFA do something like that?

Andy Gray was spot on when he said that they should call about 5 penalties a game to cut down on the shenanigans in the box by defenders, until defenders learn that they cannot do those things. We have our own guilty party, Ricardo Carvalho, who is horrible when it comes to grabbing players in the box, probably worse than Motta and Samuel combined.

[icecoolguy22]

The penalty talk is getting old now, so I will just say one: last season in CL when we played against Liverppol at SB, the referee gave a penalty when one of our defenders (Ivanoic I believe) had a tussle with a Pool player in the box, and the referee gave a penalty even the pool player wasn't even down on the ground. A lot of matches have been played in the CL, and I have not seen or heard anyone else got punished for such 'offence'. Surprise and surpirse, on that night where Liverpool need 3 goals to win, the referee gave a penalty for something that happens in just about every corner kick.

[PloKoon13]

Andy Gray was spot on

What?

[Bridgeboy]

What?

lol my thoughts exactly mate.