I don't think the referee will get banned. I think the two issues are separate. Yes, the referee's performance was terrible and he should be punished, but the Chelsea players still shouldn't have acted like that. Especially not the way Drogba behaved on camera. The referee should be made to watch his performance on video, then explained to that he clearly needs to get a grip, and then drop him down a league in terms of the matches he referees. But that's just my opinion ;-)

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wat drogba exhibited does not uphold the spirits of soccer............but i agree .any person there would have done the same ..............in his position......probably i would have punched the ref right across his face then i would not care for the loss or for the match ban ..i serve ............he should have kicked the refree ....damn

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Who knows with refs these days.

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Oh c'mon, refs was doing his job{arguably controversially and not in good way) and everyone can make mistake...at worst, he would not be trusted again with big games but he might be ref for some games in Champions League, say Dinamo Kiev-Basel?)))

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to Caudill and Elnurcan: at least notice that Drogba appologized..in this HIGHLY PUBLICIZED MATCH he killed the game broked hearts of Chelsea supporters and what we have?..silence..in every country if referee makes a mistake he accepts his mistakes in public (newspapers or tv) because nobody is perfect..but what about this one?..what is the reason in this case?..why he did not show his respect to many football fans?..you know,too many of my friends began to show sympaty to Chelsea coz they have seen this ref disgrace..notice: they support Liv,MU and even barca.. anyway,we can speak a lot about Drogba and even remember last year final in moscow but I'm curious about the refs silence but not Didie's behaviour..

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to tell the truth im kinda amazed thats all drogba did under that situation i personally would have beaten the living day lights out of that ref whats more it pisses me that the ref didnt even have the decency to appologise for his horrific performance its things like this that makes the sport look bad i hope that twat blatter relises that his biased opinions and decisions only hurt the sport hope hes removed as president and soon

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Hey UR WRONG ABT BALLACK...........he didn't do sth wrong....u expected no reaction from him after that the damn refree did that aweful pre-planned acts?put urself in his shoes....u wouldn't react if ur rights be overlooked?

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@ Faezeh: pre-planned? I suppose it was also planned to not give Barca a deserved penalty and for Bojan miss a sitter in the first leg, and to wait until the last minute for Iniesta to strike the ball perfectly into the top corner? Life is full of setbacks (sometimes undeserved) but we learn to control childish outbursts when we GROW UP. By reacting the way they did the Chelsea players showed that they were no better than the ref himself.

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Those fucking twats deserve to get a ban but in my opinion the prick drogba should never be allowed play in europe again

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@John Hughes; yes pre-planned...in the first leg it was just some mistakes of judgement that is usual at all games....at Stamford Bridge when the ref overlooked our clear penalty,we taught it's a mistake n we accepted it,then our second was overlooked n then the thirth,we still thaught it is just commen mistakes of the ref....but when we saw our 5 overlooked penalties....n also when we saw the result of 1-1 had been showed 6-7 hours b4 the match in Uefa site n also saw Platini had clearly said that he don't want an English final....n we saw this ref had very poor judgement at last games n was dismissed from uero,n ofcourse isn't suitable for a game with that importance,we had to accept that it was sth more than usual mistakes...it's not correct that we deniy Chelsea's deserveness to win in London by speaking abt some usual mistakes of refree in Barcelona thta also we saw it at Stamford Bridge for times n times....

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It is impossible to minipulate a football match unless players from both sides are in on it. You can feel hard done by, sure, but that is the end of it. Look at the the Barca goal again, Essien scuffs his clearance straight to the Barca player, a few seconds later the ball is in the Chelsea net. This is circumstance, not pre-planned. The best team does not always go through in cup comprtitions that's football, it's cruel but honest.

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not even blaitar and the purnishing board would've acted better. Dr ogba and his collegue bosingwa are human beings reacting only to the injustice melted on them by the sadiest referee i've never seen b4 in my life time

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Chinemerem sums it up very well, I agree with him

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