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Hunt and Sonko cleared.

Premiership Reading
by The_Doyler (U2550572) 19 October 2006
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The Football Assocation have today released the following statement in relation to last weekend's game against Chelsea:

The FA can today confirm that no formal disciplinary action will be taken in relation to on-field incidents during the Reading - Chelsea match on Saturday 14 October.

The FA has reviewed the incidents involving Stephen Hunt/Petr Cech and Ibrahima Sonko/Carlo Cudicini and has contacted referee Mike Riley, who confirmed that the match officials saw both incidents at the time. There will therefore be no further action.
Reading's Andre Bikey and Chelsea's John Obi Mikel have been reminded of their responsbilities in relation to their conduct after being sent off.

Reading assistant manager Kevin Dillon and Chelsea fitness coach Rui Faria have also been reminded of their responsibilities following an incident in the technical area towards the end of the match.


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Excellent news. Reading shall put this whole sordid matter behind them and concentrate on the football.

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posted Oct 19, 2006

Joke. Complete Joke. Once again the FA have screwed up. You want to know why Chelsea fans think theres a conspiracy against us. Theres a whole list of situations theyve screwed us on.

Who this is any less worse than Medndes is beyond me?

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posted Oct 19, 2006

All hail the above poster and his ingenious comment! People like your good self are why the whole country is against your team. I know you dont care and I have no concern for that but please grow up you are making yourself look absurd.

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comment by M1tch69 (U1336422)

posted Oct 19, 2006

Without proof there was intent there is little that can be done, maybe there should have been action, maybe not, only one person knows whether there was intent.

congratulations on your win against Barca (I will support any English team in Europe and am glad they won) last night but this really needs to be dropped.

You claim to be victimised, so do most the big teams, unfortunately it seems paranoia (SP?) it comes with the territory of being one of the top teams with regards to the FA

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comment by Deco20 (U1517129)

posted Oct 19, 2006

Chelsea supporters say there was all of 1 second that Cech had the ball therefore Hunt shouldnt of gone for that ball..some of you either need to play football or choose another sport.. When you are playing you just hope that you get there before your opponent and arriving 1 second late surely justifies going for the ball! No one has time to determine if they will arrive 1 second late on a challenge! Rubbish! It was an accident.. an unfortunate accident.. end of

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posted Oct 19, 2006

This is no accident!!! Hunt deliberately delay his leg and was going for the collision! Look, someone almost got killed because of his stupidity, this type of dumbass should be ban from the game!

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comment by M1tch69 (U1336422)

posted Oct 19, 2006

So do you think Essien should eb banned from the game, he has deliberately two footed players?

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posted Oct 19, 2006

Hunt didn't intend to hurt Cech but wanted to establish himself in the game and send out the message that Reading were not going to roll over and die. I think he could have avoided cech, and i don't think he realised what would happen if he didn't. Is that an excuse for him? Absolutely not and he should be punished for causing such a serious injury, whether he meant it or not.

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posted Oct 19, 2006

Essien maybe should have been banned, had the exampleof banning Gerrard and Keane being set before. What an excuse not to support Chelsea FFS

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comment by M1tch69 (U1336422)

posted Oct 19, 2006

Who you talking to when saying 'what a reason not to support chelsea'?

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posted Oct 22, 2006

Lets move on now. I really doubt it was intentional to injure the chelsea goalkeepers. injurys happen in football. it was just bad luck

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