Chelsea v Stoke: Adam escapes, Costa kicks Shawcross, Blue website hilarious
Home And Away: our look at biased reporting on football matches.
The Chelsea website has a review of the Blues match at Stoke City – they lost 0-1. The website makes Pravda look broad-minded and liberal. Let’s look at its words on Stoke’s Charlie Adam:
Charlie Adam kicked Pedro on the half-hour but avoided a yellow card. Again shades of our game here 11 days ago…
The first major incident of the second half was a forearm smash into the jumping Nemanja Matic from guess who? Charlie Adam; with guess what outcome? Words from the ref but no yellow card.
Is that Jose Mourinho manning the keyboard and criticising the ref? We also get this:
Ryan Shawcross was cautioned for sticking his arm into the throat of Diego Costa but Arnautovic escaped for barging into the back of Willian, who had suffered no lasting damage from his earlier slip.
What we don’t get is what is reported in the Stoke Sentinel:
Diego Costa was soon penalised for bear hugging Erik Pieters. Costa then got away with a back heel against a fallen Ryan Shawcross as they tussled near the by-line, earning a stiff rebuke from the Boothen End if not the referee…
Howls of derision were being hurled Costa’s way after he tried to foul Shawcross with a barge on half-way, but only succeeded in hurting the ribs he damaged here 11 days ago…
A needless Shawcross hand off felled Costa in no man’s land and rightly earned the Stoke skipper his side’s second booking
Such are the facts…
Posted: 8th, November 2015 | In: Chelsea, Reviews, Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
