Fuck the media

[BlueLion. 21,491]

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.

[capriccioso 2,545]

The Guardian was pretty good, in fairness BL.

Even Sky were fair:

Chelsea's backs-to-the-wall display in Barcelona is one of their greatest performances in Europe. Sky Sports looks at other outstanding European comebacks.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

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.

[capriccioso 2,545]

The tabloids are wank and cater to idiots, I don't expect any better from them.

Can you link me to the Shreeves interview? I've heard he was a right twat today, especially with Ivanovic.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Roberto put him in his place though.

[Fulham Broadway 16,393]

Fantastic positive write up by Martin Samuel

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2134718/Chelsea-victory-Barcelona-triumph-sheer--Martin-Samuel.html

[Ollie 4,400]

Martin Samuel always gives us credit and always says the fucking truth. Media are media, Chelsea are Chelsea, we are hated, the whole of England are jealous of our recent success and many will hate. It's us vs the world and that means that we had one hell of an impact on football in the last decade. The whole world watched the game yesterday, the whole world saw what we did to everyone's favourite team. Fuck the media, we're in the UCL final and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

We played to our strengths and got the job done which is how anyone should play. There are 2 sides to football, offence and defence, we focus more on the later and that is more important. If you score 7 you can still lose 8-7 but if you concede 0 you cannot lose. Defence is more important than attack and passion is more important than possession so media clowns, piss off

We play how we want, we play how we waaaaaant, we're Chelsea FC we play how we want!

[zolayes 14,489]

Cascarino was worst ,,,and he is an ex player of ours ....Still what do you expect of a tosser who lied

so he could play for Ireland

[Justin_3d 1,140]

Well if you are going to curse at the media I suggest you apologize to Neville.

He was a great commentator yesterday that was part from the MEDIA!

[Fulham Broadway 16,393]

The Guardian was pretty good, in fairness .

:

Love this bit ;

But then, on the stroke of half-time, Chelsea dragged themselves back into the contest with a quite marvellous strike. All goals against Barcelona are scored against the run of play, but this was a particular classic, Ramires running on to Frank Lampard's shrewdly judged through pass to lift a nerveless lob over the advancing Valdés and, to the astonishment of all present, restore Chelsea's edge in the tie. A sudden flick of the stricken bull's horn, and blood was staining Barcelona's suit of lights.

[capriccioso 2,545]

Spanish media have the 'anti-football' claws out

"Unfair, cruel, horrible, undeserved. Any adjective is not enough to define the incredible elimination at the hands of Chelsea for Barca," says the Catalan daily, Sport. "Rarely has a team had done so many merits to progress to a Champions League final. And rarely has an opponent, offering so little, won that very prize. The fact is that the Blues scored three goals on three occasions in 180 minutes. And slipped into Munich. "

[Ollie 4,400]

Anti-Football ftw!

And yeah, Neville is a blue for sure haha, i loved his reaction to Torres' goal and even Rami's goal. He was so with us yesterday. Sky, in general were great with us yesterday, even Souness always says the right stuff.

[Justin_3d 1,140]

Anti-Football ftw!

And yeah, Neville is a blue for sure haha, i loved his reaction to Torres' goal and even Rami's goal. He was so with us yesterday. Sky, in general were great with us yesterday, even Souness always says the right stuff.

Neville is not blue.

He just says the true like I like to say.

When he said that David Luiz was like a 10 year old playstation character, not many people said he was a "blue"

[Ollie 4,400]

Obviously i know he's not really a blue but when i watch ITV i cringe seeing Roy 'Boring Cunt' Keane not really give 2 fucks about anything, he doesn't smile or show any emotion whatsoever but Gary Neville was really into it yesterday. Not just as a commentator wanting the English team to win and all that crap, i mean he was really routing for us yesterday night, he sounded genuinely happy that we got through and not just because he had to go for the English team.

[Justin_3d 1,140]

Obviously i know he's not really a blue but when i watch ITV i cringe seeing Roy 'Boring Cunt' Keane not really give 2 fucks about anything, he doesn't smile or show any emotion whatsoever but Gary Neville was really into it yesterday. Not just as a commentator wanting the English team to win and all that crap, i mean he was really routing for us yesterday night, he sounded genuinely happy that we got through and not just because he had to go for the English team.

Yeah cause Gary is like Ray.

Even though Gary was from United and Ray recently with Chelsea, they still want any English team to do good.... although I would like to see how he react if it was Liverpool or City!

So for me, the OP is stupid saying Fuck the Media.

When you say such stupid thing you are condemning everyone!

And not everyone was bad with us.

We had some dickheads, like we have them everywhere.

[capriccioso 2,545]

Anyway, if that was anti football, may every match in the future of football be played out exactly the same. Such entertainment, such compelling viewing, and so similar to that brilliant game back in 2010 when Inter did what we did.

[Ollie 4,400]

I love anti football, anti football til i die baby.

[Dylan_91 90]

It is true though we didnt play football. we just had 11 men defending for pretty much the whole game. Rubin Kazan seem to do this a lot against barcelona and usually get a result. Ive never seen a more negative display in my life but it worked so it doesnt matter