People are getting caught up in the hyperbole that the media are creating here. First off, We are not getting punished points wise. We have had only one case of failing to control in the last 3 seasons which was against West Brom in December and that normally amounts to a £25,000 fine. We have three counts and because of the seriousness of them we will probably be fined about £40,000 per charge so an overall £120,000 which is absolutely nothing.
Mousa Dembele will get banned for the standard 3 plus probably 2, maybe 3 on top as I said earlier on in this thread or his own one on Monday night after the game. The FA have to do it because the incident is so out of sync with what we normally see that they have to look as though they take more serious breaches to task. We can only hope that the first 2-3 fixtures of next season are not too taxing and that we have signed someone in CM that leaves us feeling as though we aren't seeing a massive drop in quality. Totally out of character and not nice to see, don't want to see him do it again but it is case closed for me. All this slating the guy from certain posters, its a disgrace etc........you are as bad as the tabloids and media outlets that are giving this oxygen. He did something wrong, will be punished for it by both club and FA, he doesn't have history and isn't likely to offend in the same manner again.
I can live with the charges by the FA and in fact, I welcome them. Monday night despite its frustrations has shown that this team is not got being to be mugged off or bullied. Fabregas was a target from minute one where Dier clattered him from the kick off and rightly so. His oily smugness on MNF during the Stoke game should have been dealt with and unlike 2-3 other vocal Chelsea players, you could tell he was almost itching to say that if he had to then he would deliberately aid Leicester in that game if it came down to it. That game was a throwback to a bygone era and I cherish that from time to time, the game has become so sanitized and sterile in the physical aspects and Tottenham have been notoriously soft over the years so watching the likes of Dier clearly look to punish the scumbag behaviour of Fabregas at the game, it was great and as for his last one, I only wish he could have connected slightly higher and harder and left Fabregas looking at a lengthy period on the side lines to think over his knobbish ways.
No one wants this to be standard procedure for us and I don't believe it ever would but given what was at stake, the niggly nature of the team we were playing and all their comments plus the fact it was a London derby, I can excuse it as a one off and enjoy what was just a full blooded match and a match where we have shown to anyone that was bright enough to take notice, that we actually wont be physically bullied again, not happening.
COYS!!!!!!!
