Good game spoiled by reasons other than football

This week after the Chelsea Barca match, I sent an SMS to my friend who is a Barca supporter saying that the final is going to be between your team and my team and the credit for that should go to the Norwegian Tom Henning Ovrebo. He replied like a Barca Stereotype that chelsea deserved to lose for all their negative tactics. When I asked about the referee he simply said "He helped us". 

     Chelsea can claim that most of the decisions went against them but a fact that Barcelona's dominance in Nou camp as well as Stamford Bridge was quite conspicuous with their more than 70% possession. After the match Drogba,Ballack were castigating the referee for disallowing four penalty decisions in favour of chelsea. But Are Drogba and Ballack rookie footballers? Absolutely not. Then Is that the way professional footballers react to referees?. In the semi finals between Manutd and Arsenal, we saw how darren fletcher reacted to the red card. That shows the class of the footballer. Even in that match the referee had made an error.

      This chelsea outrage just overshadowed two brilliant goals from Michael Essien and Andres Iniesta. Decisions went against both the teams. One such is Eric Abidal's red card. Replays clearly showed that Anelka tripped himself and no foul was committed by Abidal. But chelsea will not open their mouth about that. Barcelona was the better team in both the legs in terms of possesion and they only looked like scoring. I don't agree with my friend in this that chelsea deserved to lose but it can be reframed as Barcelona deserved to win.

      Referees are humanbeings and all humans make mistake but there is a threshold for that. That holds true for the players too. There are billions all over the world watching them, following them. They need to bear that in mind. All players are good players. The way they exhibit themselves on the field differentiate them from great players. 

      Controversies aside. The Stage is set in Rome for one of the best Finals the world has ever seen. After this semifinals the whole of England will watch it like a England Vs Spain match. Lets hope in this match football wins rather other nonsense.