well, the last one (the Ballack appeal for handball) was never a penalty

although his arms were up he didn't handle it deliberately and his raised arms didn't make contact with the ball anyway. It hit him in the armpit region - even if he had no arms it would still have hit him in the body because Ballack shot it straight at him (hint to Ballack - if you want to score you have to kick it past the defenders not at them).

Any anyway the Henry penalty not given in the first game more than makes up for all Chelseas added together because if THAT had been given Chelsea would have been behind and forced to chase the game whereupon I suspect Barca would have found a lot more space to play in. It was only because Chelsea were never behind that they were able to play such a negative game.

Posted By: mr carra, May 7, 09:42:39