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You'd also forget that this is a Spurs forum, yet a number of people are unhappy that the glorious football won last night.
That isn't the issue though because there was no glorious football. Where's the glory? If Barca had beaten Chelsea by clear goals and played as they can and have played in Spain, then most especially non-Chelsea fans here and most with their heads screwed on would hold their hands up. But that isn't what happened. Barca tried to play as they have done but were stifled until a ball broke to Iniesta and he scored a wondeful goal.
True in the first leg, they played similarly but created chances. However, other than Bojan's miss, most were saved or stopped by Chelsea. Isn't that good football? I like watching good defending as I do attacking. The term 'good football', I use it I admit, has become a term to represent passing, attacking football. But why not admire Chelsea's style to? Or at least accept that others do and live and let live- I know you did and are just dropping off a one liner here!
There is a lot of mania on this thread and lots of people are summing up simplistically; Barca best team=deserved to win. Ref shit=Chelea robbed. Drogba=twat. Chelsea missed chances=deserved to lose (curious argument that could be labelled for Barca in the first leg). It is a combination of all those things, but I don't see why so many Barca fans here, as is their wont, are getting so defensive in their victory and lacking the mere humility to suggest that they got a bit lucky and weren't at their best.
Instead they win by hook or by crook and it is all 'aren't we wonderful'. That is exactly, in part, why they are not liked in Spain- the arrogant, self-congratulating holier than thou attitude which makes them sore winners and sore losers. A lot of teams aren't much better, and you seldom see a Freddie-Brett Lee moment in football, but Barca are the epitome of it sometimes.