I think it's time that football clubs and players­­ finally grew up. There were many things wrong on the­­ night and it was a manifestation of Chelsea's­­ problems throughout the season. No one player is­­ bigger than the game we all love except for the­ players­ tonwhom it is a job and for many a meal­ ticket.­ Unfortunately they do not all love the game as­ much as­ us fans and do not understand the rules. I­ would like­ to say that Chelsea deserved all 4­ penalties but I am­ not a liar. The media and­ especially the papers do not­ help the situation. They­ only want to sell newspapers.­ It happens time and­ again. They will enlarge any­ minor­ discrepancy.
Firstly, only one of the 4­­ 'claims' for a penalty was remotely near to­­ being a penalty. The rule is hand to ball not ball to­­ hand. The referee called both claims correctly. No­­ penalty! Drogba's claim maybe should have been a­­ penalty but if a referee sees throughout the game that­­ he is falling down feigning injury he finally realises­­ that this player is trying to make him look like a­ fool­ and of course he won't be made to look like­ fool. ­ Drogba is a cheat and needs to look at himself­ and­ decide what he wants to be remembered for in the­ game. ­ A cheat or a brilliant forward. Right now all­ fans­ HATE him and know him as a cheat. Change now­ Drogba or­ leave English football we don't need you­ here. You­ teach our children how to cheat not how to­ play­ football. Look at Ian Rush. Gary Lineker... NOT­ Alan­ Shearer. The last outside the box.
Secondly, John­ Terry - shut up please. You­ are the biggest cheat -­ what you did to Ledley King in­ the Spurs match was­ unbelievable and deserved a further­ ban for your­ racial comments - and you being Captain of­ England is­ shocking. You cannot say Drogba realised­ about kids­ watching the next day - you KNOW they watch­ all games­ and read papers. He should not have been on­ the field­ of play at the end and should NOT be talking­ to anyone­ let alone the

I can only assume most of the people on this board­ don't have or show any emotions. I don't­ condone the behaviour of Drogba and Ballack, but given­ the circumstances I certainly don't blame them.­ They are paying the price for Platini and co­ instructing the ref to under no circumstance let­ Chelsea get to the final. Call me paranoid but they­ don't exactly try to hide their utter disdain­ towards English football.

40.I think it's time that football clubs and­ players­ finally grew up. There were many things wrong­ on the­ night and it was a manifestation of­ Chelsea's­ problems throughout the season. No one­ player is­ bigger than the game we all love except for­ the players­ tonwhom it is a job and for many a meal­ ticket.­ Unfortunately they do not all love the game as­ much as­ us fans and do not understand the rules. I­ would like­ to say that Chelsea deserved all 4­ penalties but I am­ not a liar. The media and­ especially the papers do not­ help the situation. They­ only want to sell newspapers.­ It happens time and­ again. They will enlarge any­ minor­ discrepancy.

Firstly, only one of the 4­­ 'claims' for a penalty was remotely near to­­ being a penalty. The rule is hand to ball not ball to­­ hand. The referee called both claims correctly. No­­ penalty! Drogba's claim maybe should have been a­­ penalty but if a referee sees throughout the game that­­ he is falling down feigning injury he finally realises­­ that this player is trying to make him look like a­ fool­ and of course he won't be made to look like­ fool. ­ Drogba is a cheat and needs to look at himself­ and­ decide what he wants to be remembered for in the­ game. ­ A cheat or a brilliant forward. Right now all­ fans­ HATE him and know him as a cheat. Change now­ Drogba or­ leave English football we don't need you­ here. You­ teach our children how to cheat not how to­ play­ football. Look at Ian Rush. Gary Lineker... NOT­ Alan­ Shearer.
Secondly, John Terry - shut up please.­ You­ are the biggest cheat - what you did to Ledley­ King in­ the Spurs match was unbelievable and deserved­ a further­ ban for your racial comments - and you being­ Captain of­ England is shocking. You cannot say Drogba­ realised­ about kids watching the next day - you KNOW­ they watch­ all games and read papers. He should not­ have been on­ the field of play at the end and should­ NOT be talking­ to anyone let alone the referee like­ that.

The ban wasnt harsh. Drogba fully deserved his ban for­ being an arrogant sulking petulant diving annoying­ slefish @#$%. Ban the whole chelsea team for even­ trying to appeal. AS you can probably tell i dont like­ chelsea.

Kim. forget about the individuals in this case. Chelsea­ as a Club feel that their players have been wronged and­ are prepared to risk further punishment for themselves­ and their players by appealing against the decisions of­ the EUFA committee. This will be interpreted as­ bringing the game into disrepute and will further­ alienate them from the rest of the football world.­ Maybe Roman and Kenyon want to heighten the feeling of­ persecution to develop team spirit. More like a lepar­ colony.

"unnecessarily harsh" punishments? Really?­ Not harsh enough in my view. I would like to see FIFA­ go one stage further and insist that referees follow­ the rules and issue instant yellow cards for dissent­ and not retreating 10 yards at free kicks. There would­ be numerous red cards before the players finally got­ the message that football is a sport which has rules by­ which they must abide. Whilst I agree that referees do­ make awful mistakes and are inconsistent in their­ handling of matches, how many referees has anyone seen­ go up to a player who has just missed an opportunity to­ score and get in his face about it? Or shout and­ ridicule a player who misplaces a pass? None. Why?­ Because the referees get paid to referee. Footballers­ get paid to play football not referee. So, footballers­ should leave the reffing of matches to the appointed­ officials and keep their gobs shut..

Whatta bunch od saddo's. all having a pop at­ Chelsea, when if it ws their team thywould be moaning­ from teh rooftops about the ref cheating them out of­ the game.

And how on earth can anybody say that­ Barcelona were the better team over th etwo legs, when­ in the first leg they hardly had a shot on target and­ in the 2nd th eonly shot on target they had in teh­ entire game was their injury time equaliser.

Not only­ should Chelsea have won easily (even without the­ "penalties") but if it hadn't been for a­ clearly corrupt referee then Chelsea would have walked­ the two legs.

Some of you may have a go at Drogba,­ Ballack et al, but try looking at yourselves when­ decisons like those not given to Chelsea, are not given­ to your team.

Most of you will have thrown "a­ wobbly" at some stage, and it's likely that­ many of you will have hurled abuse at the referee­ too

Regardless of whether or not pofessonal players­ should set behavioural examples, they are human beings­ like you and me, and will emotionally react at times­ when disgraceful decsions are given against them.

The­ botton line is that Referee deliberately cheated­ Chelsea out of a result. Allegedly under UEFa advise to­ do so too.

If they punish Chelsea in any way then they­ should also ban that referee for life.

Hope EUFA punish em properly now by doubling the bans­ and suspending the whinging kraut @#$%.

the twats desirved what they got infact they should of­ got longer!!!

i dont belief what Drogba did on day mean why if him go­ too skool he can do that i think he deself an red card­ that mean him need too lose three or four mch.

Clive, you're a decent Man ! Good for you, to blast­ the bloody nincompoos!!!

REDGEOFF You're 100% right. I commend you!!!

Drogba, Ballack and the "Helmet" are all a­ bit of low lives. Zidane was truly the worst a real LOW­ LIFE from the sewers of Marseilles he could ave killed­ Materazzi the "BOZO". Mons. Zidane had a­ reputation for being a bloody hot temper guy, twice­ previously was kicked out out of international­ matches.The Italian low life did provoke the Arab but­ to go that far and try hurt the BOZO seriously was­ WRONG. ZIZOU could have gone to prison for a very long­ time if the BOZO was seriously hurt. Thus Messrs.­ Drogba, Ballack and the "Helmet" should all­ have pay the price..

Yet a few years ago a Serbian player got a 2 match ban­ for racially abusing Patrick Vieira smh at UEFA. What­ Drogba did deserved not more than a 3 match ban and­ Bosingwa a slap on the wrist. And what are they doing­ about the ref's apalling performance. It's one­ thing to make mistakes and quite another to take the­ piss.

Chelsea, show some dignity and respect for the bigger­ picture; take your punishment as if you are part of the­ football community and get on with the game. You­ can't buy your way out of this one. How was­ Ballack's indiscretion ignored?

right listen up first the whole team should be banned­ for lets say the first game and dogba for the duration­ there must be a message sent out that will not be­ tolerated and why do chelsea appeal so much the whole­ episode wss shown live across the football world talk­ about a smoking gun so what is the appeal for do they­ think their money will talk i hope or the game will­ lose any credence it has and when they lose the appeal­ they should double the ban AND a hefty fine not a petty­ amount

chelsea were beaten by the better team over 2 legs its­ funny how many chelsea so called supporters came out­ when chelsea got all romans money chelsea were @#$% and­ still are having spent how many 100's of millions­ and still only have 2 real premiership trophys my 8­ year old daughter could win as much given that money to­ spendyou are all glory hunters like the team that is­ winning at the moment

Typical Chelsea. Drogba should have been banned for­ life, he's a disgrace! Don't care if the ref­ was incompetent, you don't behave like that and­ especially not on camera. Whata great role model Drogba­ is for young lads watching this display of petulance­ and naked aggression. Hope they double the ban and fine­ Chelsea £25million for challenging what everyone­ outside of Chelseas thinks was a lenient response.

Typical Chelsea. Drogba should have been banned for­ life, he's a disgrace! Don't care if the ref­ was incompetent, you don't behave like that and­ especially not on camera. Whata great role model Drogba­ is for young lads watching thius display of petulance­ and naked aggression. Hoope they double the ban and­ fine Chelsea £25million for challenging what everyone­ outisde of Chelease thinks wasa lenient response.