Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, has leapt to the defence of Gary Cahill, after the defender was accusedof diving against Hull City.
The England defender was already on a booking and Chris Foy failed to punish him for simulation.
“I don’t believe Cahill [could have] dived. If you tell I’m wrong because he dived, something happened,” Mourinho told reporters, while admitting that he had not watched a replay.
“They block his run, or a touch, or he lost his balance but that big, honest guy? I don’t believe it.”
Hull boss Steve Bruce was livid after the game at Stamford Bridge and insisted that Cahill should have been dismissed, long before Tom Huddlestone was given his marching orders.
“I’ve just been asked by radio and TV whether Cahill should have gone and the simple answer is yes,” Bruce said after the game. “Especially after the referee had already booked two people for simulation.
“If it’s Hazard or Oscar or Willian, they run at that pace that the smallest connection can bring them over but this is England’s centre-half, by the way, and for me it could have been a red card for his first challenge on [Sone Aluko]. It’s reckless and dangerous.
“So when you come you expect the referee to do the job and, consequently Tom Huddlestone, who is the most laid-back, even he, borne out of frustration of the decisions that have gone against him, has produced a horror challenge which deserved a red card.
“The reason why people enjoy the Premier League, for me, is the honesty of it and the integrity of it and we must stop this horrible simulation which unfortunately has crept in.
“When you watch it over, it’s like something out of Swan Lake. It’s that blatant, it’s that obvious, what he’s trying, and yet there’s some sort of excuse that they’ll find for him.”
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