Chelsea 1-1 Burnley AET (Burnley win 5-4 on pens)
Congratulations
By Since66
November 13 2008
Ray Wilkins said in his pre-match press conference, "We need to show Burnley the utmost respect." Unfortunately Chelsea did not show Burnley the respect they deserved, although Burnley would argue otherwise because of their wonderful acheivement, and the reason? Chelsea decided to leave Captain John Terry out of the starting eleven and leave him on the bench as an unused substitute.
For me that decision was the beginning of the end of Chelsea's night. Without John Terry taking up his usual position at the start of the game, meant Chelsea on the pitch didn't have a leader. OK there maybe were eleven highly paid footballers on the park with a job to do, but no-one could stake a claim to lead a team in half as a mould as John Terry. Chelsea made wholesale changes to the side that started at Blackburn. In came Carlo, Paulo, Ivanovic, Mineiro, Drogba and Belletti. After twenty odd minutes Belletti went off to be replaced by Super Frank and within seconds, Frankie set up Drogba who scored with a fine finish to put Chelsea 1-0 up. Whilst celebrating at the away end, coins and other rubbish were thrown towards 'The Drog' and in a moment of madness Drog threw a coin viciously back into the away end. After the game, Didier issued this apology. He said "This is something I want to make clear. I tried to celebrate the goal and I received some things at me. "The big mistake I did was to throw it back so if someone was hurt I just want to apologise for it. "It was just a mistake and nothing more." This incident will rumble on and on I fear. Akinbiyi equalised from close range after Carlo parried a cross into his path. Chelsea had already hit the bar, Di Santo struck a fizzer which went just wide and then just into the start of extra-time he limped off with a hamstring injury leaving Chelsea with ten men, after all the subs had been used. Alex missed an absolute sitter right at the death and then we were off on penalties. At this point I made a decision to leave, missing the shoot-out completely as we are rubbish, our last shoot out success was over a decade ago at Ipswich. Point proved as Captain for the night Wayne Bridge missed his and Mikel had his brilliantly saved by Jensen. CONGRATULATIONS TO BURNLEY, they rode their luck at times but they battled and scrapped and despite they had their Captain sent-off, six minutes from the end of extra-time, they held on to send the 6,000 odd Claret and Blue fans packed in The Shed home, extremely happy. Chelsea: Cudicini, Ferreira, Alex, Ivanovic, Bridge (c), Mineiro, Kalou, Belletti (Lampard 25), Deco (Mikel h/t), Malouda, Drogba (Di Santo 68) Goal: Drogba 26 Booked: Drogba 27 Burnley: Jensen, Alexander, Duff, Caldwell (c), Jordan, Elliott, Gudjonsson (McDonald 96), McCann, Blake (Mahon 76), Eagles, Paterson (Akinbiyi 59) Goal: Akinbiyi 68 Booked: Caldwell 58, Akinbiyi 68, Eagles 72 Sent-off: Caldwell 114 Penalty History: 1-0 Burnley, Alexander 1-1 Lampard 2-1 Burnley, Mahon 2-1 Burnley, Bridge missed 3-1 Burnley, Eagles 3-2 Burnley, Kalou 4-2 Burnley, MacDonald 4-3 Ferreira 4-3 Burnley, Elliott missed 4-4 Malouda 5-4 Burnley, Duff 5-4 Game Over as Mikel misses 
"This is not something I should show in a football match and I want to apologise. It was an incident in the heat of the moment and I regret it.
but the response is going to be fun,,,,,,6, 5 to burnley,,,,rode there luck,mmmmmmmm not much choice may as well loose to 6 goals as 1,,,,get in there burnley,,,,man u r next,,,avit,,,,another 2days of,,,,,,
dixon gettin grief on bfc board,,,cant see why,he was been nice
Di Santo was apparently lively for the few minutes he was on and his forced withdrawal leaving us with 10 men for extra time didn’t help. I don’t think Scolari could have budgeted for both Belletti and Di Santo to get crocked so being left with 10 men could probably not have been avoided.
I didn’t actually SEE the game so I had to content myself with radio commentary and comments from other Chelsea fans that had been at the match.
Malouda, Cuducini and Bridge apparently had bad games, some praise Mineiro – others don’t, whilst Alex, Ivanovic and Mikel came away with some credit and chances were missed by Kalou, Alex and Di Santo - the players should have killed the game off.
The negatives were, well, it’s never nice to lose, but thankfully, again, it happened in a match that is one of the less important of the season.
The whole Drogba affair with the racial abuse and coins being thrown at him does subtract from the image of humility of the Burnley fans that I had (make that some Burnley fans) and Drogba should know better than to respond in the way he did. Pro footballers are prone to abuse from the plebeian masses and should know better, that said, any punishment sought out against Drogba should be pursued with equal enthusiasm against the Burnley fans responsible. (Jamie Carragher suffered a ban for his troubles in one match although I’m not sure if the morons who started it all were ever punished).
The positives are that Scolari would have learned a bit more about who’s not up to scratch for this squad and of course, less distraction for much more important games ahead of us this season.
Well done to Burnley though. Whilst 5th place in the Championship hardly makes them minnows, we didn’t take our chances whilst they held and eventually came away with a victory providing a memorable day out for their fans
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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2008:11:13:22:21:05 by dixon9.
We didn't lose the game, we lost the competition and have done for the last SIX attempts.
Beggars belief to be honest
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But I remember saying the same type of thing about Robert Fleck, Chris Sutton, Kezman, Sheva............
perhaps I should keep me thoughts to myself
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least you lost to the winners this year
i dont think there was 1 burnley fan who thought we could win the game,,,but as i said before,,,THE CUP ALWAYS THROWS UP A SHOCK,i hate to say i told you so,,,but i will
as for the coin throwing,,,and racial abuse,,,bloody disgusting and they should be ashamed,,,,spoilt a memreble night for us,,,take heart chelsea u will pee the league this year gl chapsWe are old skool
Wot DD did was wrong, but the same applies to the fan or fans who threw the coins in the first place and Owen Coyle has said today that Burnley will find the culprits and ban them for life.
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they r(Sm35),,,,im old school to,but this is now getting very exiting,,,watford at home for me next game,,win that then the semis wooooohhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooo,,,,i still believe,,,wembley im coming
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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.
arsenal won 3-0 against a premier league club
they was arsenal's wonderkids who won it,and this idiot coach called wilkin said arsenal dont respect competition by puting there youths.shame for u "big club"cheski,shame for u wilkins
Can't you remember the name - IT WAS Wigan
and its CHELSKI
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always one 66,,,,thought my posts were hard to read