Comments on: Chelsea’s Punishment Shows UEFA Is Toothless

By: Wale Akinremi

Wale Akinremi — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:07:55 +0000

UEFA is without doubt toothless. They obviously had an agenda. Sincerely, the beautiful ones are not yet born. If I were in the shoes of the Chelsea players, I would never retract Drogba’s comment. TOM is simply a disgrace to football. To err is human, but to deliberately cheat others is devilish. What else do you call Ovrebo if not a day-light robber. I can never forger that shameless idiot. We complain about refereeing in Africa and we then turned to EUROPE thinking they were better; now we are wiser. What history is he going to tell his children about that match. If I were in UEFA’s shoes (not this lame duck)Ovrebo should be banned ad-infinitum, not just that I should be charged for criminally bringing the game into disrepute. Tom Henning Ovrebo is football;s Lucifer. He should be confined to a Zoological garden for the public to pay for token to have a gaze at ANIMAL IN HUMAN SKIN.

By: anton

anton — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:05:12 +0000

how dare drogba speak out against what was obviously a sham. Drogba and bosingwa began to expose platini’s underhanded schemes and they were swiftly crushed lest anyone question bad refereees again. Ballack should have been fined if anyone. But more than likely ovre-suck only mentioned droga in his post-match report. Interesting isn’t it.

Uefa has never been serious about racism. racist fans should be 95% of earnings forfeited.

By: doug.is.a.kopite

doug.is.a.kopite — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:13:09 +0000

i actually agree with what the above chelsea supporter, GIBurrows, says to a certain extent. can i just point out that the goal that never was is impossible to prove either way to be honest but the closest approximation is that from one of the camera angles the clearing foot is more than a balls width behind the line. im still prepared to admit that it is not 100% garuanteed that the goal was a goal. However twice inside the penalty area Sami Hyypia was brought down by severe unsporting behaviour in the semi final of 2007 in the space of seconds. The first or the second instance as he attempted to continue to play should have been given as a penalty. no major fuss was made at the time by liverpool players and as a result no major fuss was made by the media to draw attention to this being the reason that liverpool were unable to face man u in the final.

having cleared this point up which seems to even the score over the ‘goal that never was’ incident i have to say that it seems to me that in football there are many hidden agendas that most of us are not privvy too (and certainly not involved in the profits of).
any team that is successful, it appears, will invariably achieve an advantage over their opposition in all areas of the game due to the requirement of the media to keep interest high.
i dont want to go into huge depth at this point but you can sort of catch my drift when i say that a club like man u who has won so many titles must be assisted to win as much more as they can in order to create a media monster that will drive merchandise and viewing numbers through the roof. we are afflicted with many people who do not have grounded allegance to one club and will quite happily become arsenal supporters all of a sudden should they begin stringing a few cup wins together. these people may have been chelsea supporters before. man u has always had a large support base as does liverpool worldwide. but factor in all the glory hunters and you have a beast that gathers money at an alarming rate. this will subside if results dip for too long and many money hungry parties will be out of pocket. for this reason it is essential that as many questionable decisions should go the way of the juggernaut team to enable them to recover from a losing position.
it does worry me that when my club strings 2 or 3 premiership victories together it will all of a sudden start to become too easy as we are more and more assisted to put money in greedy cheating pockets.
this is a disgrace and has no place in competitive sports of any kind.

By: doug.is.a.kopite

doug.is.a.kopite — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:54:39 +0000

yes agree with the story. i would be very unhappy with my team if they ever behaved anywhere near the shocking behaviour of chelsea in that particular game.
appropriate punishment wouldnt necessarily be to ban the club from the champions league, but banning the worst offenders in drogba and ballack and also fining them an appropriate percentage of their salary for the extreme influence they have on such a large audience (especially kids who are future footballers) would be more appropriate.
not as an alternative but in addition the club should be allowed to take part in the competition (without drogba or ballack) and do so knowing that they are not entitled to any prize money or funding arising from their involvement at all for the whole season other than their portion of actual gate receipts. this would cause enough concern to ensure that clubs would ‘control’ their players and also serve as a strong enough warning for other potential loose cannons.

incidentally, having watched the game and been appalled by the tactics of chelsea who are apparently deservedly a european force. i can honestly say without bias that they did not actually have 2 penalty claims. there was one possible claim but if you weigh up the way they carried themselves throughout the game up until the point where they lost it completely i think you can safely agree that they would not have deserved the chance to score from the penalty spot if that had led to them advancing to the final. football would have in fact lost out if they had gone through and thats a comment made without consideration to the further abusive and outright rediculous behaviour.

i hope that kids and general football supporters all recognise them as the clowns they are

By: GIBurrows

GIBurrows — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:17:35 +0000

I must state that I am a Chelsea supporter and was losing heart and passion for the game as we have way too many money hungry players with no substance, back bone or passion for the club, but with the display of so called petulance and lack of respect towards the referee I have found it all coming back to me as we haven’t seen an injustice like this for years (well since the goal that wasn’t against Liverpool) UEFA really do have their own agenda I’m not saying football is fixed, but how can it not be with a performance like that from a UEFA official……..?

Disgusted and praying for the G14 to re unite!! UEFA are the new Hitler regime.