HERE'S GUUS HIDDINK: "We are so disappointed. There are two issues. WE could have and should have sacored in some open sitautions. Of course we talk a lot about the not-given penalties. There was the shirt-pulling on Didier ... Ok, we had the Henry-situation in Barcelona but we had three others here. I won't say what the boys feel ... OK, they feel it was an injustice.
Hiddink on the penalty decisions: "If you have seen clearly the one ball on Pique, on a reflex the arm is going up. If he is blocked by not seeing it, then there is also an assistant referee ...
On suggestions that some influential people didn't want an all-English final: You can never prove this. It's just ... out of emotion. Five or six situations - not just one - the Malouda situation ... he was grabbed inside the box. It's not just one doubtful situation as the Henry situation was in Barcelona, it's three, four. But we should have scored ourselves, whether some people don't want an all-English final again.
On the reaction of the Chelsea players at the end: I can fully understand in the emotion of the game. As long as they don't touch him. It's not just one decision in doubt, it's several not-made decisions. I protect my players on this.
GUSTOV: Who's the bird in your sig?!
Pique admitts in an interview it should have been a pen. There you go. "he admitted the ball hit his hand in the box when Anelka tried to knock it past him and that the ref was wrong not to award a penalty."