Am I the only one who felt the Barca 09 semi-final defeat hurt more than the Moscow 08 final defeat?

The fact that it was there only shot on goal

Last seconds

it was a great goal

We were the better side and probably would have beat Man.U in the final in Rome

We had 5 penalty appeals and none were given

Also do you think that match was a Uefa conspiracy?

Did Uefa not want a Man.U and Chelsea final again?

Not for me, given you have to look real hard to find a United fan that is not a complete biased twallop. And cause the only reason United won that day is cause Didi lost his cool, we had them well on the ropes till then imo.

Barcelona 09 for me , don't want to remember this

Atletico Madrid 2012

just kidding

The Barca one was worst for me, i feel we were cheated out of that game with one of the worst displays of refereeing i've ever seen.

The Man poo game i felt more for JT (i nearly cried for him) than i did for myself, unlike my feelings for Drogba on that day.

Alan

We were the better team in both games, though more so in the Barcelona one so that hurts more for me.

It doesn't bother me anymore, we got it in the end, no point in dwelling on the past IMO, we are the champions

of Europe.

We've seen, been and done it all.

The FIFA World Championship is nice, but it's probably on par, or just below winning the Europa League, how many old boys do you hear talking

about "that great world club championship final",

The European Cup is as high as you can go, and we've done it! Treasure it my friends! We did it in the end!

Moscow was worse though, for me.

Edited September 2, 201213 yr by Seven Times

Barce 09 for sure i can take losing when were unlucky but that refereeing was the worst way to lose

Barcelona 09 made me angry more then anything , i'll never forget it EVER . Robbed is putting it mildly. Moscow hurt like hell though, i was gutted. Inches away from our first Champions League victory.

Winning the thing was amazing and took away all the previous bitter disappointments for me.

The Barca one was worst for me, i feel we were cheated out of that game with one of the worst displays of refereeing i've ever seen.

The Man poo game i felt more for JT (i nearly cried for him) than i did for myself, unlike my feelings for Drogba on that day.

Alan

Me too, I could imagine just how he must have felt - as opposed to Anelka who also missed his penalty, yet didn't seem to care. In fact Anelka didn't even look like he gave a f*ck whether he scored his pen or not, it was a very casual sh*te kick.

It hasn't been erased for me. I still see red when I think about Barca 09.

To say that was the worst refereeing display I have ever seen is to do Ovrebo a great kindness.

I actually think the cup final in 1994 was more painful for me. We had won nothing of note (bar the odd Ken Bates Cup and 2nd div titles) throughout my entire life following the blues and this was the first major final I'd ever seen us in. When Peacock hit the bar in the first half I felt that was our big chance and so it transpired. What really p***ed me off was that I was watching in a Bar in Bournemouth and some freeloader tapped me on the shoulder and said "Can you move please, Jamie can't see". I turned around and sitting there was an ex Bournemouth youth-team team-mate of mine Jamie Redknapp. I had a few choice words with "Jamie". The defeat hurt me so bad as back then we never knew when we'd get another chance of a major honour.

Barca 09 made me more angry (to say the least), but Moscow was far more painful, as we were so close to creating the history that we eventually achieved this year. One kick JT, just one sweet connection......doh!

Barca 09 was really really bitter, especially as I still had 08 in my memories.

How f**king sweet it was to knock them out and then go on and win it this year.

Barca 09 was pretty messed up but we were one kick from victory in the final in Moscow. That was a very bitter pill to swallow.

For me

Barcelona = Anger...possibly the angriest I've been...certainly in sport (but can't off the top of my head think of anything that made me angrier...I'm not an angry person)

United = Gut wrenching sadness (not the saddest I've been though...life takes the cake on that one)

Both immensely negative emotions, can't really split them. Probably Barca...I have lost a significant amount of the Moscow disappointment since we won in Munich, but I'm still bitter over Ovrebogate.

Edited September 4, 201213 yr by Cam

Moscow.

Moscow - to be that close to Everest and fail right at the summit was gut wrenching and soul destroying.

I concur with 7 times though - the pain of that failure was erased in Munich.

Barca for me.It was a nightmare.I had to work so i listerned to it on the radio.I was driving me lorry up to Hemel and i feel like a right coward but i could'nt listern to the second half, the pressure was to much.I remember driving around the M25 looking at the clock thinking, it must be finished.When i finally turned the radio back on it was about a minute after barca scored i felt sick.All the chat shows after the game and well into the early hours of the morning were all going on about how Chelsea were cheated. Yes even talk sh*t.I was absoultley gutted.

Moscow was bad very bad and i felt physically sick. But at least i was surrounded by so many fellow blues who were hurting as much as me.It kind of numbs the pain a bit.

Logically it would have to be Moscow as we were one kick from glory, however for me hard to think of any other time in the 25 years that I've followed our glorious club that I've felt so enraged and so robbed as I did that night against Barca. I have obsessively HATED that club ever since. Anytime I see they've been beaten it brings a smile to my face, dumping them out in the semis this year was almost as good as winning the final. C&nts the lot of them, harsh words I know, but that's just the way the land lies for me.

Edited September 4, 201213 yr by mac

Moscow - Was in tears for about an hour

Barcelona - Was angry for at 3 years until we beat them..

So.. Barca.

Edited September 4, 201213 yr by JMaher94

Barca for me, the way it was swept under the carpet and no one was made to answer for it really grated with me Makes it that much sweeter that we beat them fair and square last season with no dodgy decisions going our way.

Though barcalona as a club and their players are too classless to admit we deserved to win both ties.

Moscow... just so close. Barca was hard to take though. Still, all those near misses made Munich 1000 times better for me. We got there in the end.

I just try not to think about these games at all as they are just so depressing. Thank God we won the CL in May. That has eased the pain slightly.