West Ham 1-1 Chelsea: Seriously Why Do We Bother?
Mike Dean - DISGRACE
By Since66
December 22 2009
I thought we had seen the last of the 'disgraceful' European refereeing displays last season with you know who.... Mr Tom Herring Bone. But after Sunday's diabolical performance from a certain Mike Dean, the European conspiracy is creeping into the Premiership. For a few years now I have always thought Chelsea never get the run of the green. On Sunday at Upton Park proved it.
Chelsea didn't play well and we haven't done so in the last few weeks, but for a highly paid individual to discount TWO first-half penalty appeals - the first when Gabbidon handballed TWICE in West Ham's area and the second when Green took out Kalou - is just frankly disgraceful.
Add to that Mark Noble should have been given a red card for his lunge at Michael Ballack which Dean chose to ignore, so therefore shouldn't Dean have booked Ballack for a dive? Fair question!
Then the farce of all farces Dean makes Super Frank take a penalty THREE times - so did Super Frank collect the matchball? The previous two attempts which Super Frank scored from, were re-taken because of encroachment.
Who by? West Ham or Chelsea or both sets of players?
Then interestingly when Super Frank stepped up to finally score Chelsea's equaliser, players from both sides encroached!! So did Dean get fed up and award the goal or was he really keen NOT to see Super Frank score?
For the record, it wasn't even Dean who awarded the penalty. It was his Assistant who incorrectly signalled that Upson had fouled Sturridge, when he clearly played the ball.
Still what goes around comes around, but we needed whatever goes around to have come back round twice!!
Fair play to Super Frank though. He showed true professionalism and class to react under such pressure, but to be honest Chelsea should have been home and hosed by then.
We weren't at the races in the first-half. Both Kalou and Malouda went missing without permission and they both should have been carted off way before half-time.
Still at the start of the Christmas period - four points ahead at the top are better than three, but SIX would have been nice!!
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2009:12:22:00:03:07 by Since 66.
Suggesting that Noble should of been sent off is ridiculous- if your nit picking then go for 'Super' Scotts tackle on Ballack but Noble...come on - not one mention on MoTD or any of the papers.
Ian Wright did a fantastic piece on you guys last week- and the fickle nature of the Chelsea fans acting like spoilt kids whilst chomping on their prawn sandwiches.
There's only one thing that lets down Chelsea and its not the referees.
You make it sound as if you never get away with anything
Drogba......hahaha in fact no im not even guna go there
Ballack, he's a cheat himself, deserves what he gets, look at community sheild, am sure none of you will admit the goal you scored after his UFC type challenge on Evra shouldnt have counted
"what goes around, comes around" is 100% rich coming from a chelsea fan, that i can assure you
Quote:Super Hammer
Munch on the Prawns you nonce - utter drivel you wre lucky to get a point !
Surprised you didn´t leave early after 18 mins?! Oh! Course! You weren´t losing were you!
"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.
Agree with you on the handballs and the fouls. Yes, we shouldn´t have had a pen - but then they were lucky not to get one against them when Green took out Kalou. The ref was also a joke on the pen re-takes.
We are lacking a little bit of edge at the moment although they were camped in their half for the second half.
4 points clear is fair enough at the moment though - can´t complain.
"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.
On the encroachment the ref was correct, is it not the rules? Plus on the third penalty only drogba encroached by about 8 inches, what are you moaning about.
To say Noble should have been sent off is beyond stupid and how about the "assult" by Carvalho on Franco, which was the most obvious penalty of them all.
P.S remember the pen you got against liverpool last year, you think you get hard done by, you must be joking.
And you reckon the article is biased but you are not I suppose?!
"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.
good to see you back dixon
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"It is born out of hypocrisy and fundamental insecurity. There have been two kids on the block for the past 12 years. Suddenly, there is a third and that one is threatening to be more successful than the others and they don’t like it." P Kenyon.