f*** off Chelsea

[Andy @ Allerton]

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=4...A+investigation

[Taipan]

Cech suffered a very serious - yes, even life threatening - head injury. Yet the referee insisted he crawl off the field so that play could continue. That alone warrants some kind of investigation.

[Maldini]

Did he insist he crawled or that he was taken from the field?

[Taipan]

Does it make a difference?

 

Cech was severely injured. Riley insisted he leave the field. So Cech crawled off.

 

That shouldn't have happened. It should have been the medical staff saying when and how he left the field.

[Tosh]

So Riley is now a paramedic too? How the f*** is he to now how serious the injury was?

[Scally the Wag]

What odds Keeper No. 3 getting flattened against Barca tonight and Mourinho going bananas about pre-meditated murder?

[Stevie H]

What odds Keeper No. 3 getting flattened against Barca tonight and Mourinho going bananas about pre-meditated murder?

if barca's players are smart then they'll target the ridiculously-named third 'keeper. knack him every chance you get.

[SteveT]

So Riley is now a paramedic too? How the f*** is he to now how serious the injury was?

 

especially with his week-in, week-out experience of players playacting to waste time, gain unfair advantages, get other players booked etc.

 

In that sort of climate, it's very unfair to blame the referee.

[Guest Kev]

Yet the referee insisted he crawl off the field so that play could continue. That alone warrants some kind of investigation.

 

Whereabouts did you get this from as I've not seen or heard anything similar.

[Senrab_nhoj]

Cech suffered a very serious - yes, even life threatening - head injury. Yet the referee insisted he crawl off the field so that play could continue. That alone warrants some kind of investigation.

 

 

Riley has stated at no time did he 'order' or insist that Cech be moved off the pitch. Get your facts straight before quoting some red top lies

[Senrab_nhoj]

He really is a c**t

 

Now claiming in press conference that the ambulance took 30 mins when according to Reading FC it took 7 minutes.........

[Cunny]

if I was Riley, Hunt, Reading or the NHS I'd threaten Chelsea with legal action till they retract their lies.

[Eskimo]

Mourinho accused of getting facts wrong

 

Kevin McCarra

Wednesday October 18, 2006

The Guardian

 

 

Chelsea have renewed their complaints over the incident in which Petr Cech sustained a fractured skull at Reading on Saturday. In addition to reasserting his belief that the Football Association should take action against Stephen Hunt, whose knee caused the damage, Jose Mourinho was also angered by alleged delays in getting the goalkeeper to hospital. Chelsea's manager stated that Cech had to be transported by lift and wheelchair to an ambulance that drew up at the other side of the Madejski Stadium.

 

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His accusation that the player had to wait 30 minutes for an ambulance has been rejected in a highly specific response by Graham Groves of the South Central Ambulance Service. "Chelsea called an ambulance at 17.45 which arrived at the ground at 17.52. Cech was in hospital by 18.11. The removal of the patient was a decision taken by Chelsea, who were offered two routes. One was round the pitch on a stretcher. The other was by a small lift, via a wheelchair." Reading last night endorsed this timeline, stating that Mourinho's account contained "very serious factual inaccuracies". They say Chelsea opted not to call an ambulance at the first opportunity, but only did so 25 minutes after Cech left the pitch when his condition deteriorated. They added it was Chelsea's medical team who opted to use the lift and that the other route had indeed been taken later by Cech's substitute, Carlo Cudicini, who was also injured.

The manager may not have been conscious of the passage of time in which the goalkeeper's condition deteriorated before an ambulance became essential. Mourinho is still unlikely to be persuaded that arrangements at the Madejski Stadium were ideal. "If my goalkeeper dies in that dressing room or in the process [of going to hospital] it is something English football has to think about," he said. "This is much more important than football. I would like someone to tell me why my goalkeeper was left in this situation."

 

Mourinho continues to accuse Hunt of a reckless challenge on his goalkeeper. "I don't change one single word of my interviews after the game," he said.

 

His dissatisfaction with the the lack of immediate action from the FA is also pronounced. "When I did that shut up [gesture] against Liverpool [fans in the League Cup final], that was a nightmare," he said sarcastically of official interest in lesser matters. "That a player from Man City [Joey Barton] should show his a*** for two seconds, that was also a nightmare. But I think this is a real nightmare."

 

Chelsea will pursue all matters regarding Cech with the FA and the Premier League. They are still collating evidence and may not submit their views in writing until next week. In a statement last night they said: "Questions regarding the two tackles on Petr Cech and Carlo Cudicini, and the medical procedures to treat [their] injuries, will be in the submission."

 

Mourinho reported an improvement Cech's condition . "There was an evolution from yesterday to today," he said. "Today he can speak, he can speak properly." He tried to redirect his players' minds to tonight's Champions League game with Barcelona, but Didier Drogba's comments to L'Equipe show the squad have not forgotten Hunt. "It's not an accident," he said. "He saw he was going to hit Petr and he didn't try to avoid it. When Petr was carried out of the ground he was laughing." A Reading spokesman said: "The accusation is nothing new. We have already responded to that."

 

Mourinho's version

 

"My goalkeeper was in the dressing room for 30 minutes waiting for an ambulance. The ambulance could not go in the direction of the dressing room. He could not leave the dressing room properly. He had to go in a wheelchair in the lift when he had the injury. He left 30 minutes after my doctor called for an urgent ambulance. If my goalkeeper dies in that dressing room or in the process it is something English football has to think about."

 

South Central NHS trust version

 

17.15 Cech injured

 

17.20 Cech taken to dressing room. Chelsea doctor does not think ambulance necessary

 

17.45 Cech's condition deteriorates and Chelsea doctor requests ambulance

 

17.52 Ambulance arrives at Madejski Stadium

 

18.11 Ambulance arrives at Royal Berkshire hospital

 

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[fred milne]

if I was Riley, Hunt, Reading or the NHS I'd threaten Chelsea with legal action till they retract their lies.

Absolutely. If the NHS's version of events is true then it has gone beyond a joke.

[L19red]

im sickened by this rant against the ambulance service. I've always just thought of Mourinho as playing the media game defending chelsea, attacking other clubs etc but when he goes out of his way to malign ordinary working class people who are tyring to do their jobs to the best of their ability then he crosses a line.

 

Ambulancemen and women and work hard in a difficult stressful job to save peoples lives. They are also exactly the sort of people who dole out their hard earned cash on going to the match, buying footy kits and subscriptions to sky. They are the people who have made Jose a multi-millionare and the ungracious t*** should be thanking them for the speed of response (7 minutes).

 

I really feel an apology is in order from mourinho and from chelsea for making those comments but i wont hold my breath. And if they wont do it then the FA or the premier league should step in. Attacking the ordinary decent people who keep the game afloat is unacceptable conduct. Managers get a disrepute charge for critising a referees decision, but something like this happens when mourinho and chelsea send out a series of lies about NHS staff and nothing will happen. I struggle to express my contempt for him.

[Gilps]

im sickened by this rant against the ambulance service. I've always just thought of Mourinho as playing the media game defending chelsea, attacking other clubs etc but when he goes out of his way to malign ordinary working class people who are tyring to do their jobs to the best of their ability then he crosses a line.

 

Ambulancemen and women and work hard in a difficult stressful job to save peoples lives. They are also exactly the sort of people who dole out their hard earned cash on going to the match, buying footy kits and subscriptions to sky. They are the people who have made Jose a multi-millionare and the ungracious t*** should be thanking them for the speed of response (7 minutes).

 

I really feel an apology is in order from mourinho and from chelsea for making those comments but i wont hold my breath. And if they wont do it then the FA or the premier league should step in. Attacking the ordinary decent people who keep the game afloat is unacceptable conduct. Managers get a disrepute charge for critising a referees decision, but something like this happens when mourinho and chelsea send out a series of lies about NHS staff and nothing will happen. I struggle to express my contempt for him.

 

Well said

[RP]

The rant is not against the ambulance service - it is aimed at Reading FC.

[Andy @ Allerton]

From what I saw on Sky Sports News last night - he was having a right go at the ambulance service.

[Boca]

The rant is not against the ambulance service - it is aimed at Reading FC.

 

Either way, he's still a c***

[RP]

Either way, he's still a c***

 

Absolutely right.

[Guest Jack Bauer]

Why would he get Cech to crawl off the field? Play wouldn't be able to continue cause he's the fookin keeper.

[Boca]

Reading FC and Stephen Hunt should seriously look at legal action against these w*****s. Some of the allegations made against them are disgraceful and must be slanderous.

[D.Boon]

Fairly disgraceful even by Chelsea standards.

 

First referees, now operations and emergency services.

 

The line about being outraged at Cech having to be taken in a lift in a wheelchair makes no sense. Did he expect them to carry him down the stairs??

 

Still takes everyones mind off the groundsman throwing loads of sand on the pitch eh?

[Tosh]

The bloke from the ambulance service (I think it was him) was on R4 this morning. As well as relaying that timeline, he also said that on the pitch and thereafter at the stadium, the Chelsea medical team were in charge of his treatment. Indeed, it was only after his condition deteriorated that they called the ambulance.

 

The 1/2 hour - which lets face it is probably crucial - was down to Chelsea staff. And As Jose was pitchside at the time....

 

 

It's a s*** awful thing that happened to Cech but Jose really hasn't a scooby

[RP]

From memory, I can't even think of a lift that you'd have to take to get from the changing rooms to the exit at the Madejski. It's all on the same level from what I can remember.