mike channon´s windmill said:
ilovefotball said:
First of all, I came here to something else but seing the reaction from most of the posters here, I will write something else instead.
I don't get this referee talk at all. If anything, he was consistent on his job and Barca should be actually condemning the referee for disallowing the perfectly legit goal.
First goal incident, there is no doubt whatsoever that it is a red card. About the penalty, it looked stone wall penalty to almost everyone when it happened. Of course, after seeing it several times in slow motion, the decision was wrong. But anyway, to blame the referee for giving penalty there is small time.
Then there is the Barcelona goal which was disallowed. It kind off was a call that should settle the wrongly given penalty.
I don't remember any other major incidents from the game, which in itself shows that the referee did a good job.
Now, I understand Chelsea fans going crazy for that infamous loss to Barca in 2009/10 season, I even understand Arsenal fans complaining for that Van Persie red card and I do understand Inter Milan complaining for Motta's red card. But I don't get why City fans and their manager want to blame the loss to the ref.
The red card was the right decision and even if the penalty was not given, Barca scored 2 perfectly legit goal and thus the scoreline should have been 0-2 anyway.
If anyone wants to blame for the soft calls gone to Barca players ( which I honestly don't remember), it's better for your team to understand as soon as possible that you are not playing at the EPL, but UEFA CL. You can't be as physical as in EPL because there are teams from all over the continents which have differently perspective on how hard you can go on a tackle.
If anything you guys should be blaming, it should be your captain who played Messi on. Seriously, I think Pellegrini had his tactics spot on for this game, but that red card (correct one) ruined his tactics.
In which case why wasn´t the tackle on Navas called? This incident was solely responsible for ruining what should have been a great specatacle with everything hanging in the balance going into the second leg.
Less physical maybe but let´s have consistency on all fouls when it comes to officiating
Maybe the refree should have called a foul, but you are naming that situation because it resulted in a goal and a red card.
It would not have been an issue if Messi's first touch was shit or he just blasted over Hart.
What Pellegrini implied was that the refree was pro Barca, which he was not at all. If he was pro Barca then Barca would have gone to the 2nd leg 3-0 up.
Anyway, it's same when Barca plays with an English team or Mourinho coached team. Epl team think that If Barca didn't have refree on their side then they would be a equal match to Barca.
Bullshit!!!!!!!!! Everyone remebers Chelsea not been awarded penalty in 2009 but noone except Barca fans remeber that in the same game Abidal was wrongly shown the red card which resulted in Chelsea getting more room to counter attack.
Everyone remember Thiago Motta getting red card in the second leg for Inter Milan, but noone remembers the 1st leg where the offside goal to Milito was given which eventually resulted in Inter Milan winning the CL. Even in the 2nd leg, Bojan scored a winning goal but it was wrongly disallowed for handball to Toure. If that goal was given, Barca would be in final to defend the crown And would have got a chance to write history as the first club ever to win back to back CL.
Everyone remembers the penalty given to Barca against City, but there is little talk about that perfectly legit goal being disallowed And Clichy's handball which could have been easily given as a penalty kick.
Hell even noone remember in 2006 Carvallho basically dragged Valdes down in order to give Terry chance to score in an empty net which gave a goal win to Chelsea.
It's just that everything that goes for Barca is highlighted and discussed in every forum and media whereas any decision that goes against Barca is quitely forgotten.
It just smells bitterness from the opposing teams and in this case I was utterly disappointed by Pellegrini as it was very unlike him to blame the refree when his team last season lost a place in CL semi final due to even worse referring And he didn't say a word.
