Chelsea defender John Terry bemoans referee's 'bad performance' in Champion's League loss to Inter

Chelsea captain John Terry has criticised the refereeing during the side's Champion’s League loss to Inter Milan at Stamford Bridge last week.

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Chelsea were eliminated in the round of 16 by a 3-1 aggregate score, but the ex-England captain believes that the referee did not help the Blues' cause. 

"It was a bad performance by us but a really bad performance from the referee,” Terry told The Guardian.

"It is not good enough at this stage of the competition. We were at home and we didn't get one decision. We do our best to get ourselves in this position and for two years running we get let down by bad refereeing."

German referee Markus Stark was in charge of the second leg and refused a couple of Chelsea’s penalty claims - decisions Terry believed should have been given.

"I'm not going to say the word conspiracy. But I'm so frustrated by what happened. The penalty on Didier Drogba was blatant and how the referee and linesman miss those decisions frustrates me."

Terry also revealed that the referee was discourteous to the Chelsea skipper when he was inquiring as to why the penalties were not given.

"When a decision didn't go our way I, as captain, went to speak to the German referee and he turned his back on me. I wasn't shouting. I went to try to talk to him and when he wouldn't talk that is when I got frustrated. That is just pure disrespect."

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