For Kyle Lafferty?!

I'm in agreement with Drogba. To behave like that, with what was at stake, is quite frankly disrespectful to every Chelsea fan.

Can't really complain though. It was typical Chelsea really; we had the game and shoot-out by the scruff of the neck and still couldn't finish them off. If anything, I hope some good can come from this, because I honestly think we need to make big changes to how we play, approach teams and also in terms of personel.

the Mr Chelsea nickname for John Terry? Both Tyldesley and Tyler used it last night as he shaped up for the penalty, and I see Lampard's called him it in a post-match interview.

how good was Hargreaves' penalty? There's no saving them.

Joohn Tery: http://tinyurl.com/4kwll6

so I'm happy. But it was a pretty good game from what I saw.

and in that minute, christian ronald scored, and the commentator said what i said he'd say. i then gave up on football, conceeding that it is a tripe predictable game

about Terrys tear ducts, they took some battering.

What did Tevez do that wound everyone up and lead to Drogba getting the red?

and Ashley Cole was superb as well.

I thought Chelsea were the better side overall and should have a penalty late on when Rio aimed that roundhouse kick at Joe Cole's head...

Nice to see Ronaldo not quite live up to expectations in the big game...no change there then.

and watched every single minute. Christ what a game.

the distance covered stats in the game and it was joe cole and makelele and ballack who had covered a fair bit of it....from running up to the ref all the time

if I felt really sick-to-the-stomach upset and and sorry for John Terry?

I mean I was pleased Man U won and everything, I just felt bad for him. Poor JT :( I thought I didn't like him, strange emotions....

Hossam GhaLOLy

To be fair, though, most European Cup Finals are. As a football fan, and one that didn't really mind either side winning i just felt shortchanged by everything that happened. Although i'm obviously not Yoonited's biggest fan i said yesterday that i'd be happy as long as it was a good game and the better side won, and neither of those things happened. I thought it was mind-sappingly dull until the first goal, and after that the rags played really well for fifteen minutes or so, but from around five minutes before their goal until the end of the first period of extra time i thought Chelsea were excellent, playing the most expansive football, condidently dominating United in every area of the pitch and were very unlucky to not score. Obviously both sides know previous to the game that if they can't settle it over two hours then penalties will decide it, but it says nothing about football for me, as i said last night there's very little skill involved, it's a pure lottery, and more nervewracking than exciting from a personal point of view, even when my own team isn't involved. Once the play was finished United could only do what they had to, i'm not doubting that, but a bumbling and completely untechnical centre-half putting one kick an inch off target shouldn't be the absolute decider for the pinnacle of European football, imo. Had United won the game then no-one could doubt that they'd be the best team in Europe, i just don't think the match last night proved anything other than English players have an inherrant problem with penalties. To sum up, Chelsea didn't win in normal time because they weren't clinical enough with their chances, but i thought the officials made it hard for them, second half i think i counted a dozen decisions go against Chelsea, not getting corners or fouls, or to a lesser extent conceding corners and fouls when they shouldn't have, not massive decisions, no, but in games like this where the differences are so slight i felt that they weren't getting them. I also felt like Makelele, Ballack & Cole had every right to moan to the referee and to start getting annoyed. Drogba, well, he's an idiot, and a bottler, the rules are the rules and the referee had to send him off, the player should know better, but i also think that the rules want looking at, i'm not sure slapping a 6ft 3 15stone brute on the chin warrants the same immediate punishment as, say, kicking him in the face. Stuff like that should always be a yellow card, for me, petulent as it is it's hardly dangerous, but of course the referees don't make the rules. As it goes people will hyperbole about 'Fergies best ever team', we'll see replays of 'that night in Moscow' until the next British team squeeks through to the final, and the press and a million new-Reds will be waxing lyrical about how great their club is/was/will be. In reality they were very lucky and Chelsea proved that they're at least as good a side and should've won, but as a football fan you'll take that. Fair play to them.

Some of the football at times was immense. Man United nearly scored the greatest goal of all time and once Chelsea realised that playing long ball to on up front against two of the best centre backs in the world wasn't going to work and kept it on the deck they looked tidy. Chelsea dominated the game, but they never really threatened the way United did when they had the ball. You felt United could score at any time, and with the shots off the post and the bar for Chelsea you had to feel it was United's night.

There. I've been civil. Which is more than I've managed in real life. I still haven't stopped laughing. In fact any time I'm down for the rest of my life I'll just remember the pub erupting in laughter when Terry cacked it. And no, not fair play to him for standing up and taking it, he was taking the piss, he got greedy and wanted to be the hero when he's clearly never taken a penalty in his life.