FC Barcelona take Chelsea apart in London

Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

Barcelona win 1-2 away to Chelsea in the second round of the Champions League (last 16)

Let me just explain the significance of this game my children. This time last year Barcelona faced Chelsea at exactly the same stage in the champions league. Barcelona were favourites to win the CL and Chelsea second, thus it seemed somewhat a shame that the two would meet so early on in the competition. In the first game, in Barcelona, Barcelona won 2-1. In the return game, Chelsea scored 3 goals in the first 20 mins, for some reason we just collapsed at the beginning of the game. Ronaldinho, being the footballing God that he is, pulled two back with phenomenal goals, some of you might recall. So Barcelona were winning on the away goal. Then, in the dying minutes, Chelsea get a corner. Ricardo Carvalho (how many times has he done this?) holds back our goalie and John Terry scores. Clearly a foul. Thus we would have won that game.

So yesterday, with my heart in my mouth, from the beginning of the game (I even had a dream about it the night before)... Chelsea score first. Absolute fluke. We score an own goal because our pathetic goalkeeper (nobody seems to realise that he needs to go) fails to communicate properly with Motta. Then Barcelona step up the pace and score. Then we absolutely lay seige to their goal with some of the most scintillating attacking display you'll ever see. Finally we get another goal. Justice would have made it 1-3 to us (Barcelona). Probably even more because we were not awarded two deserved penalties. And those that moan about Chelsea being taken down to 10 men should realise that Del Horno's attack on Messi was at least deserved of a yellow, and if you add that to the earlier incident where he stamped on Messi's leg then you'll realise he deserved it! But nevertheless we've one more leg to play against them and we've got a big advantage. Two weeks on tuesday.


If we get through this the Champions League is ours.