Not a great match, but a great and unexpected result for Chelsea supporters such as myself. I thought the injuries that sank any chance of a third consecutive Prem title would also sink any chances of winning the cup double. I was pleasantly wrong.
Yeah, yeah, a bad break in the first half for United. For once the breaks run against them. Cry me an ocean.
Blue is the colo(u)r.
Hopefully this win will convince all involved that Jose needs to stay- glad the fans gave him a big ovation at the end.
The irony of a Chelsea supporter saying this. No doubt the special one would have taken such a crap decision on the chin 
Oops, I meant, bad break in extra-time …
I wouldn’t want to understate how bad of a break it was.
As a Manchester City fan allow me to congratulate Chelsea 
Piss poor game though
Blue is definitely the colour
I think the comment along the lines of “This match is a great advert for cricket” summed up the snoozefest.
After viewing replays of the alleged United goal many times, I’ve changed my mind. The view from the left side shows Cech clearly stopping and controlling the ball well in front of the goal-line, and then Giggs sliding into his upper-torso and pushing Cech and the ball over the line. Nice try, Ryan, but that’s not a goal. And as for this Fergusonian notion that he was tripped—I think Fergie’s the one who has tripped.
But, yeah, a dull affair it was.
And what a corker of a match between the West Indies and England it is!
You obviously watched a different game from the rest of the country.
Well England have certainly batted well.
But even this fine performance sums up why I only like limited over cricket.
We’ve had **3 days ** of an international match with 4 English ‘centurions’ and a 4 wicket haul for a bowler.
Yet it’s quite possible the match will end in a draw (WI bat on a bit on day 4; England can’t enforce the follow-on and have to bat on make sure they don’t risk losing; WI see out day 5…).
Sheesh - 5 days used and yet it finishes a draw because they run out of time. 
Absolutely not, the game was dull, dull, dull.
And it wasn’t a goal, nice try tho
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*DREAM FINAL PUTS FANS TO SLEEP
We were promised a ‘dream final’ of epic proportions to grace the grand opening of the new Wembley but instead we got just the opposite - arguably the worst FA Cup final in recent memory.
Chelsea may have sneaked it by the most slender of margins to send their supporters into raptures and Manchester United’s into agony, but for the rest of us this turgid affair will only be remembered as the most dour of disappointments.
Despite the abundance of talent on both sides, the whole encounter was devoid of any creativity, flair or urgency from start to finish while there were times when a team of pensioners could have kept up with the pedestrian pace.*
Truly horrible stuff. Over paid park football.
I did not watch it, but have seen the replays of the disallowed “goal.” Was there a restart? Or did play continue? If there was no restart, and the ball was over the line, then the lack of a foul call would mean there should have been a goal scored. If there was a foul called, then there would have been a free kick to restart, and presumably the only discussion would be whether or not the ball was completely across the line before the foul occurred.
The ref did not call a foul and restart play, so he clearly blew the call one way or the other. Nevertheless, it was not a goal, and having the ref miss the foul but disallow the goal is far better than having him miss the foul and allow a goal through the technical back door, as it were. The net result was the right one, even though the ref’s path to it was not. In this case getting the right result—even if it’s a bit like the broken clock that is correct twice a day—is far better than a ridiculous consistency.
What tortured logic. It wasn’t a goal because Giggs pushed Cech over the line sliding in? But then why did Giggs slide in? Because he was hacked down from behind by Essien whilst lining his shot up!
No he wasn’t. He slid into Cech feet-first in an effort to reach the ball and knocked both Cech and the ball over the line, and all this after Cech had already gained possession of the ball a good yard in front of the goal-line. And although Essien would have liked to have fouled him, it’s not clear that he even really touched him: Giggs was already going into his slide and whatever contact there might have been was insignificant. Not a goal.
Thoreau once said that the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. I’d add that there are others who are far more vocal about it.
Ah, but you miss my point. If the referee did not call a foul, then there was no foul in his opinion. Thus, despite the fact that YOU think it was a foul, the actuality is that it was not a foul in the mind of the referee and his assisstants.
Now, I suppose you can claim that the referee simply blew TWO aspects to the call, but while missing the fact that the ball was completely over the line is easy to do in such a situation (and, indeed, in absence of clear evidence that it was over the line, the referee is OBLIGATED to not award the goal), missing the purported foul is most difficult to do, especially since keepers are routinely kept quite protected by the referee in such situations.
Thus, the fact that the referee did not whistle a foul means he did not think a foul had occurred. The failure to whistle stoppage to award a goal and restart with a kickoff may have been error in fact, but was likely to have been the only possible call for the referee under the circumstances, with view of the ball clearly over the line blocked. One more example of why the ball should be electronically monitored for purposes of a goal.