BlueLion.

He's an idiot, but he got away with it. There should be no punishment - missing out on a chance of redemption, that's a big enough price to pay for JT.

Roberto put him in his place though.

Yet who cares, TX? He is our legend and he deserves this as much as anyone.

Take back every bit of criticism I've aimed at him. Humble pie for lunch it looks like...

Captain, leader, legend.

Luiz in the UCL final? OMFG.

General Drogba, I salute you. The real captain last night, not Terry. He and Lampard were outstanding!

^ who gives a fuck, we're going to Munich!

Heroic performance by him, very proud of his showing.

Me too mate. Oh well Best bit of the game, horrible little cunt. CRY BITCHES, CRY!

I think a little bit of jizz came out when Cech touched Messi's shot onto the post

But there are subtle attempts to discredit our phenomenal achievement, so they can fuck themselves as far as I'm concerned. The Guardian is always credible with this sort of thing, but look at The Sun, The Star etc. - they praise us, then pick away at little things. They just can't let us celebrate. As for Sky Sports, look at Shreeves the horrible little cunt. Robbie put him in his place.

Fuck the media, just fuck them. After the greatest night in our European history - actually, scrap that. After the greatest night in the history of Chelsea Football Club, you have bitter journalists attacking Roberto di Matteo for negative tactics. It was an "ugly win" and "undeserved" because apparently only one team played football. Excuse me; we showed the world how to beat Barcelona, and that equates to a quite beautiful outcome. The press are desperately trying to belittle the fantastic achievement of ten men outplaying, outfighting and outdoing the best attacking team in European football. "Under par", they said. Barcelona were stifled by the pressure of a Clasico defeat, allegedly. The defence was missing key figures, the Catalan press is reporting. Now we're hearing Lionel Messi was ill. So he should be, because Barcelona contributed to their own downfall. Think of the chances they spurned in both legs. The difference here was clinical finishing; Drogba sliding the ball under Valdes, Ramires' glorious chip and Torres rounding the Spanish goalkeeper to tap into an empty net to bring down a veil of silence upon the Camp Nou. We attended a medical emergency last week at Stamford Bridge; Drogba's goal put Barcelona into meltdown. Real Madrid presided over the funeral with a quite brilliant 2-1 win; totally dominating the defending Champions of Europe. And Torres' last minute goal ensured that the wake followed a similarly consistent theme - that Barcelona are no longer the best team in the world. They are a team with no strikers, and a team with no defenders. They are entirely reliant on Lionel Messi, and when he is countered in the fashion that di Matteo achieved last night; with two solid banks of defence and midfield, and a holding player always closing the little Argentine down, he may as well be off the pitch. Furthermore, on the few occasions Chelsea broke forward, the makeshift defence of Carles Puyol - who operated more as a left winger - Javier Mascherano, Gerard Pique and substitute Dani Alves, the Chelsea strikers completely bullied their opponents. Barcelona struggle against direct pace and physical presence, and in Drogba and Torres, di Matteo has this in abundance. He used his two star strikers perfectly. General Didier attended the inevitable siege; half-a-dozen clearing headers inside his own box shows that in light of the Blues' defensive crisis, that they may well have a replacement in the Ivorian, who was as stout as any of his colleagues at the back. And when Barcelona over-committed and forgot the fact this team only needs a single shot to score a goal, Sergeant Torres was introduced just to hang on the half-way line and pounce on any up-field clearances. And boy, didn't he do that! All is forgiven, Nando! Barcelona showed themselves to be embarrassingly one-dimensional. They think it to be sacrilege to even try a shot from outside the penalty area. Instead they will try to play twenty more passes than is necessary, and they failed to find the space to exploit that they usually get against weaker and less-determined teams. Chelsea showed them how to play football; one long clearance upfield from Ashley Cole, one touch from Fernando Torres, two further touches to round the goalkeeper and a fourth to tap the ball into the net. Boom. Chelsea's defensive effort was incredible - and that was without their first choice defenders. Luiz and Cahill missed out because of injury; the latter's Camp Nou experience lasting little over 11 minutes thanks to a hamstring pull. Then John Terry did himself no favours. What an absolute moron. Forget his ceaseless fight for the club and passion for Chelsea FC, what he did was frankly ridiculous. With Cahill off and a goal down, he had such responsibility as both the captain and the senior defensive figure. Instead, in an act of sheer idiocy, he did not let down just his team-mates, but the entire football club, and there is no excuse for his actions. What he did is unforgivable. In the past Chelsea have been screwed over in semi-finals of this competition by diabolical refereeing decisions - this time, our bid for European glory was jeopardised by our own captain. Terry got away with murder because that sending off did nothing but inspire his defensive team-mates. Cole and Ivanovic were absolutely outstanding; yesterday was easily the performance of their respective careers. Bosingwa was brilliant at centre-half, and Ramires - an attacking midfielder - put in an incredible shift at right-back. As for Terry, he was miss the final, and rightly so. He's been forgiven for his past transgressions, and he may well have got away with this one, but if things go south in Munich, you know where the first port of call will be in terms of dishing out the blame. Speaking of missing the final, Branislav Ivanovic will miss out too. So will Ramires, and Raul Meireles. All three will be big, big misses. But the way in which the news was delivered to Ivanovic was heart-breaking. Geoff Shreeves; you are, quite simply, a cunt. Ivanovic's face after Shreeves told him he will be out of the final was a picture of devastation. Immediately, the press had sought to bring this team back to its knees. Ivanovic looked crest-fallen, Ashley Cole let out a sigh and bemoaned the Serb's luck; 'oh no!' he claimed. The way Shreeves handled that interview was an absolute disgrace and he deserves all the flak coming his way. It was totally uncalled for, and unprofessional to boot. Things like that are meant to be treated with subtlety, you amateur. Besides, it was never a fucking yellow anyway. It seems Chelsea can't record a good result without the press trying to discredit it entirely. Against Napoli we were lucky, against Benfica we were shit, Tottenham lost because of the "ghost goal" (which crossed the line, morons), and last night it was a poor Barcelona performance, but not a brilliant showing from ten-man Chelsea, that resulted in the Spanish side's expulsion from the competition. Sorry UEFA, you won't be getting your dream final this season. Barcelona got their red card and customary penalty, and despite being 2-0 up against ten men, they couldn't complete the job. We will be damned to hell and back because of our "negative tactics", yet one does not fight fire with fire in the Camp Nou. Perhaps there are a few who recognise the fact that di Matteo's tactical performance was once again spot-on, and that every man put in the performance to end all performances. It was brilliant to see; there was a grim determination in this experienced Chelsea team; one of 'you shall not pass!', and Barcelona were rocked by this team's ability to bounce back from the inevitability of defeat. But of course, the mainstream media won't pick up on that. So fuck them. Besides, it makes victory even sweeter, doesn't it? We are Chelsea Football Club, and we are going to Munich.

'Proud' doesn't even begin to cover it! Reckon I slept with a smile on my face last night!

Bitterly disappointed in him. After Cahill went off, he had so much responsibility at the back. He already has so much on his shoulders as a captain. What a brainless thing to do. He's got away with murder because the other 13 players put in a Herculean effort.

Cesc Fabregas - plays for Arsenal; always loses to Chelsea. Joins the best team in the world - STILL loses to Chelsea.

Oh. My. Fucking. God. Move aside, that was THE greatest night in our history. To go to play Barcelona at the Camp Nou with TEN men and beat the bastards, what a sensational achievement. What a feeling. When Torres scored I collapsed to the ground and starting fucking weeping, I'm not even ashamed to say it. It was an outpouring of years of emotional angst, but we have gone and beat the best and we've done it in style. I'll admit, at 2-0 down and Terry off the pitch, I felt like giving up. Went upstairs just before the first half finished and heard my dad celebrating when Ramires scored. I thought - maybe we'll actually do it. Barca got their red card, then they got their customary penalty. But I tell you this, our name is on this fucking trophy. For him to miss that penalty, for Cech to pull off three sensational saves like he did, for Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Ramires and Ashley Cole to put in the best performance of their entire careers, I am so fucking proud. And for Torres to score the winner. Wow. That goal was worth £50 million. I started crying. It was an outpouring of semi-final heartache and the will for that man to succeed. He scored, we fucking did it, and this is THE greatest EVER result by an English team in the European Cup. Nevermind Istanbul. Liverpool did it on penalties against a complacent team that aren't even half as good as this Barcelona team, and with eleven men. We came from 2-0 down with ten men and we secured the most famous draw you could ever hope for. The footballing Gods are smiling on us. This is our year.

Possibly one of the biggest nights in the club's history. Who'd have thought we'd even get this far?

I don't even think van Persie deserved the main award tbh. Yeah he's had a great season - but Aguero has been absolutely outstanding and he'll probably actually win a trophy to go with it.

I think di Matteo certainly has put forward his case for inclusion - but I fear this is just a case of the players spitting their dummies out again. Under AVB we saw they were more than capable of playing how they currently are, but almost out of spite they refused to show the same commitment that they did under Hiddink or Mourinho, for instance. It was almost as if as soon as they realised things were going south, that they could not be bothered anymore and that they were just biding their time until his eventual sacking. They let Villas-Boas down just like they did with Ancelotti, and I fear they would do the same with di Matteo if they were given the chance. He has been savvy and kept them onside by playing a lot of the 'old guard' and rotating the squad as well as he possibly can, giving gametime to everyone and thus getting a happier squad as a result. What he has done deserves great respect and I think all it has done has endear a Chelsea legend to the fans to an even greater extent. But I fear that if he gets the job, he'll have got more than he bargained for. Let's be frank; he isn't the tactician that Mourinho was, nor does he possess Hiddink's motivational skills. Whilst he has got it right more times than wrong, I still fear this is a case of Avram Grant all over again - he might have been the coach, but he certainly wasn't the manager of the club. That duty befell the likes of Terry, Ballack and Drogba and they led the club to a Quadruple of near-misses. 2007/08 was the greatest ever Chelsea team in my opinion, and we underachieved. We did the same under Hiddink; we should have got to the final of the Champions League that season. Finding the perfect man for the Chelsea job isn't an impossible task, because we found him in 2004. We need a man who can handle the pressure delivered from the players, the media, and of course the owner, and as much as I respect him, I do not think di Matteo has these credentials. He certainly has the fans onside and the players have his back (for now), but I don't think he'll get the job because if he was going to, Roman would have offered it to him by now. Instead we only have reports that he's set for an interview in the summer, and that the 'interim' part of his title isn't there to humour the press; it is very much an apt choice of phrase. It just seems to me than Roman is holding out for the Special One...

We've had this issue before and there's no way we can edit it, unfortunately

Haha, we have in the past had the Chatbox up during matches, but that and the increased server load just slows the site down a ridiculous amount. I always stay away on matchdays because the most ridiculous posts are put up after matches anyway.

Yeah Shane I agree, especially as there is no limit on the length of video you can put on it!

10 points from the last four games and we'll finish at least 5th.

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