The Premier League Owl
There are some worrying things emerging in the paper at the moment from Chelsea’s point of view, specifically about the reliability of what was and what was not heard during the Manchester United game.
An article surfaced today in The Mirror question whether the allegation which has been made against Mark Clattenburg, was founded on something which had been mis-heard or misunderstood. Supposedly, and this is nothing more than hearsay, Clattenburg may have said ‘shut up, Mikel’ rather than…you know. Whether or not there’s any truth in that will presumably emerge over the coming days – or, knowing The FA, months. Ultimately, this seems to hinge on whether David Luiz can understand a Geordie accent or not. It’s pretty tenuous.
Hypothetically, if Clattenburg is proven to have done nothing wrong, Chelsea are in a world of trouble for what happened after the final whistle. Barging into the referees room with Ron Gourlay, John Terry, and Mikel – with the threat of breaking legs? That’s not going to end well. Yes, racial abuse would have obviously been a mitigating circumstance for that – but if there was none, then this would just boil down to ‘threatening an official’. The FA won’t see the funny side of that.
God knows how this is going to end.
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I wonder why is’t that FA dn’t like chelsea in any wia’ well may be is bcus de club is own by billionia,and hope wat mikel is sayin is true’ if nt his ow will be worster dan any order player cos he knw wia he came 4rm?
man the mirror has always been anti chelsea — so i’m not surprised by that — what all this is revealing is that the middle aged men who run the football media and the football world are not so much anti racist as anti chelsea — the charges against Jt were splashed all over the papers/ web sites etc for a whole year prior to the trial the trials verdict was completely hidden when the Fa sentence came out , a entirely false set of bullshit was then inaugurated over the length of the sentence even though the reasoning for this was clearly laid out in the FA document — and so on and so forth — there’s not a lot of love for chelsea out there which is fine but there’s little justice either and the last 10 years have proven that we don’t get a fair and balancing reporting from anyone -like i said the middle aged blokes who run english football they hate chelsea; preoccupied as they are by the decline of liverpool and the fear that chelsea pose some sort of threat to them — truth is they’re stupid they don’t see they need chelsea more than they know but hey, that’s england no justice unless you’re in the club.