Chelsea use every trick in the book

[Nick Bateman]

Here's some observations I made from last Saturday's game:

•   Chelsea's first goal was offside
•   Dermot Gallagher (referee's assessor) on Talksport praised the linesman for NOT giving it offside.  I reviewed it again on Match Of The Day frame-by-frame and he still was offside.  Also it was an easy one to give as Torres was returning from being a 'mile' offside but was in the area of the play - Schurrle was the nearest shirt to the linesman so he would have seen him first
•   Mark Clattenburg booked Fulham when he thought we had actually fouled a Chelsea player - they still received a plentiful number of 'dives' including 3 by Hazard
•   One of Fulham's booking was on Kasami running into Ivanovic after he had punted the ball upfield - the burly Russian screamed as he went down theactrically - the ref ignored that seconds earlier Ivanovic had done the same to Kasami as he was attempting an overhead kick which he missed because of the foul which Clattenburg 'missed'
•   He booked Ramires for his fourth foul
•   Mourinho was warned by the 4th official for leaving his technical area - in some other games he has ran into other managers' areas and even ran onto the pitch!!

As Roberto Martinez said the previous week, "Chelsea use EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK".

[Nick Bateman]

As a follow on from the above, read Mick Dennis' article in today's Daily Express where he points out Mourinho's tactics in a condemnation of Alan Pardew.

Dennis remarks that Pardew and Mourinho should be made to sit down so they cannot influence or abuse the officials.

Full story http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/mick-dennis/462853/Alan-Pardew-s-touchline-madness-is-no-surprise-this-has-been-waiting-to-happen