LONDON — It should have been no surprise that Chelsea accepted its Champions League knockout by Barcelona with all the grace of a pack of hyenas.
The Blues — an appropriate nickname given the language of Didier Drogba to referee Tom Henning Ovrebo as the Norwegian official left the field — have done too much previously for what happened at Stamford Bridge to be out of character.
If anything it was in character, because the Football Association has fined Chelsea consistently for its players threatening and harassing match officials, so their appalling behavior was par for the course.