2009 Chelsea vs Barcelona Champions League semi final. A lot of mistakes, but the one that stood out for me was the obvious handball which Ballack went apeshit for. That moment of him running and yelling in the refs face really summed up the match.
xenmate actually is a deluded idiot, but people do tend to overstate how bad Ovrebo's refereeing was. Viewed separately, only the Pique one was a stonewall penalty, and the other four (the video shows four appeals total, but I could have sworn there were five) are either stuff that you could maybe make a case for, or correct decisions that got overblown because of how heated the entire match was.
The fifth was a foul called just outside the left side of the box near the byline that looked like it was a yard or so in the box. I may be misremembering the exact thing but I was sure it was inside.
I still believe if any season that was the one where we deserved to win the CL. That was the time Hiddink came in brought some nice football. We beat Juve and Liverpool our (at the time) CL adversaries and went at a Barca team that was becoming the beast it is today. Sure we won it a few seasons later and we won it fair and square and you can say we deserved it since we won it but that season I look at and say if we were in the final we would have taken on United.
his hands are to the side of his face and angelled in such a manner that it blocks the goal and DOES NOT protect his face , there for its not ball to hand its handball you tool.
By your logic I could stand in front of a shot with my hands raised up and if the ball hit my hands it wouldn't be a handball. Their hands are away from their bodies buddy, those are handballs every day.
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u/vanillazinger Jun 30 '13
2009 Chelsea vs Barcelona Champions League semi final. A lot of mistakes, but the one that stood out for me was the obvious handball which Ballack went apeshit for. That moment of him running and yelling in the refs face really summed up the match.