Pepe's foul was never a straight red. NEVER! At most a 2nd yellow if he had one, which he didn't.
But that wasn't even the worse decision. For me the worse was Adebayor's yellow only a minute after Messi escaped a yellow for EXACTLY the same thing.
Arbeloa got a yellow for a bodycheck, exactly the same as one Barca player (don't remember who) made close to the end of the match. No yellow for the Barca guy.
None of the dives were punished, none of the ref pressure was punished.
There were only 2-3 of us here who were complaining about these thing. Now there are at least 20. So ignore me, Jack and Hoori and call us biased, but what are the others seeing? And more importantly, how on earth don't you see that over and over again it is Barcelona that gets help in CL, no matter if they play Milan, Chelsea, Real, Arsenal.
Yet they always escape that with the pathetic excuse that the other team was gonna lose anyway (even though they weren't losing at the moment) because Barca has 8758476736% possession.