Chelsea defeated!!!

Well it has been almost 2 days and I had promised one of my friends of this blog. So here it goes. To start with I must say that I am extremely happy that Chelsea lost to Barca not because it was a victory of "good football" over "boring football" (though Chelsea are boring) but only because I am a Barca fan. But there are few out there who seem to be unhappy and clearly this is an example. So lets see what I think...

Well if you want to save your time and not read the blog that follows completely I am summarizing it here for you. MOURINHO STINKS. Well thats about it .. but to read why you need to read it completely!!!

I am not saying that Mourihno ("The Special One" as he calls himself - TSO in short) is a bad coach; I believe that he is a great coach tactically and has a great future. Any team would be lucky to have him as a coach and any team would be benefited by his "god given talent". I also admire the way Chelsea played the 2nd half of the first leg with 10 men. But the point is that football is a sport and it's meant to entertain. If its not entertaining than its not football and here is where TSO fails. He makes football a mechanical and non-entertaining event (I can't call it sport any more). He even forced teams like Barca to give up "beautiful football" and play like Chelsea. This is bad for football as such and hence I would like to see the back of him ASAP.

Coming to the match as such. I believe that over the 2 legs Barca were a better team and Rijkaard proved to be a better coach then TSO. He played the waiting game knowing perfectly well that they can back on Ronnie to create something out of nothing and help Barca through. TSO fell to the bait perfectly and the result is in front of us. Moreover to say that Barca won just because of Ronnie would be wrong. He was the difference ..no doubting that but football is a team game and an individual never wins in football. Thats the beauty of this sport. The same Ronnie was in PSG but they never came close to winning a CL trophy while he was there? Apart from that I think Messi was good enough to give the entire Chelsea team nightmares.

10 Men!!! When the Chelsea fans would give us a break :-) and stop making excuses. Well I believe that Del Horno did not deserve a Red for that foul but he did deserve a Red... seems like a contradiction .. well not. I would like to bring to your notice that Del Horno did deserve 2 yellows..one for the tackle on Messi for which he got Red and one for the tackle he had made 10 mins ago on the same guy who had terrorized the Chelsea back 4 all night (Messi .. not Ronnie!!!). That makes it 2 yellow which is equal to one RED. So things did even out.

As a parting note I would like to point out that fans and players reflect the mindset of the coach. You heard a referee retiring last year due to Chelsea fans' death threats and this year there have been more of the same after the first leg. Did you hear a sinlge Milan fan threatening the referee for the penalty that he awarded to Liverpool in last year's final for a blatant dive by Gerard or do you remember a protest from ManU fans for disallowing a clear goal by Scholes in 2004 round of 16 against Porto (then managed by TSO) for offside. This just proves that Chelsea are bad losers and this change has come about after TSO came to Chelsea. He is a sore looser and needs to learn that there are people and teams better than him or his. So he needs to accept that Barca was the better side (which he does not!!). I hope TSO grows up.. for his own good and even more importantly for the good of football in general.