Every time there's a borderline yellow/red card incident there's always a swarm of oppo players insisting that it's a red. This notion that it's only Chelsea that do it is utterly ridiculous. PSG were doing it on Wednesday night for a start, but no one gave a toss because that was against us.
Earlier in the season at Palace Azpilicueta was rightfully given a straight red for an awful challenge that he was stretching for. Palace had seven players instantly running at the ref over that and making sure the right card was produced. Three minutes later Delaney, already on a yellow card, was beaten by Remy and stupidly stuck both arms around Remy and pulled him down, earning himself a second yellow. After the game the absolute idiot Neil Warnock whined that Chelsea players had got Delaney sent off by pressuring the ref and that was the story the press went with.
At home against Arsenal Cahill committed a borderline yellow/red foul on Sanchez. Arsenal players went ape excrement over it, Wenger went ape excrement over it and even went and shoved Mourinho, the commentators whined about it only being a yellow and not a red. Not a word about hassling the ref then.
Late in the game Wednesday Costa committed a moronic foul on Silva that really could have seen him off. Three PSG players immediately ran at the ref trying to make it a red card, and when it was only a yellow they were clearly complaining about it. No comment whatsoever from Sky about that.
Ibrahimovich committed a borderline yellow/red on Wednesday. He lunged into a challenge and couldn't pull out of it, he was nowhere near the ball and clearly made contact with Oscar. Some refs would have given the yellow, but going by the rules it was a correct red card. With the way both Ibrahimovich and Oscar went in to that challenge whoever was late was in big trouble. The notion that the press have that it was a blatantly incorrect red and only given because of the CFC players is complete and utter BS.
I thought CFC played awful on Wednesday and can totally understand the glee that oppo "neutrals" have at us going out. But the standard of journo/pundits in this country is even worse than our awful refs. And most football fans are so utterly dim that they need to be told what to think by utter cretins like Carragher and Souness. You'd probably be sat for hours watching both of their teams hounding refs at the slightest opportunity. Their offence over it now simply doesn't ring true.
