Yesterday Chelsea and Tottenham faced each other in the London Derby. It was a very eventful match, one which I'm sure will be remembered for quite some time.
Chelsea started the game dominantly and took a one goal lead 19 minutes. It was a stunning volley from their new Signing Kalidou Koulibaly, off the cross of another new signing Marc Cucurella. They were very dominant, but as usual couldn't score a second.
The second half started pretty much the same with Chelsea dominant, but then in football no matter how dominant a team is, the opposition will always have one or two chances, and if you don't have a safe advantage there's all the chance you can get pegged back. That happened, and Spurs equalized.The goal scored by Piere Emile Hojberg a few moments after a clear foul on Kai Havertz wasn't given by Anthony Taylor. It was really frustrating, but to be honest, a lot had happened since then, so chopping the goal off on that ground might be a bit harsh. Other than the foul, the goal was still controversial as Richarlison, who was clearly offside, was blocking Mendy's line of sight, but that was ignored.
On the touch line we had Antonio Conte, who was so overjoyed his team had gotten back into it (even after all the shit they've played) he decided to celebrate in Tuchels face. Of course Tuchel didn't take it lightly and there was some commotion.
The game continued and Chelsea regained the lead, a sumptuous finish from Reece James and Raheem Sterling's first assist for the club. Tuchel went ahead to celebrate Mourinho style across the touch line.
But his celebration was short lived as Harry Kane who was silent most of the game scored a die minute equalizer from a corner that shouldn't have been. Prior to the corner Cucurella was pulled down from his hair by Romero right in front of Anthony Taylor, but the referee turned a blind eye to it like he'd been doing most of the game. The matter was tabled to VAR (Mike Dean) and the goal stood, because apparently pulling of hair isn't against the rules.
It was ridiculous that the goal stood, but it happened that way. Anthony Taylor had succeeded in adding to his ever growing list of controversial calls against Chelsea.
At this point it's incredible how he still gets to referee Chelsea games. It's always like this every season. He refs a Chelsea game, makes controversial decisions that cost us the game, there's uproar, then he doesn't ref our games for a while, he then refs an unimportant Chelsea game without any controversy, we don't complain, then he gets an important game once more and then he screws us, rinse and repeat. At this point all Chelsea fans are sick of the sight of him, and don't want him near any of our games. An online petition was made (don't really know what good it does) to get Anthony Taylor to stop refereeing Chelsea games and it got close to 10k signatures in an hour, that's how much Chelsea fans dislike him. I don't see him refereeing any Chelsea games, especially home ones in a while (a couple months), but the way things are, it seems like there's no repercussions for his mistakes. For all we know he could be doing what the FA want.
Anyways, after the match Thomas Tuchel wasn't pleased and his tussle with Antonio Conte continued, as he grabbed Conte's hand and refused to let go till they were separated. They were both shown Red by Anthony Taylor (Totally unnecessary by the way).
When asked, Tuchel claimed he held his hands, because he refused to look him in the eyes when shaking his hands. He also believes both goals shouldn't have stood and that the referees were biased.
Any Non-spurs fan who watched that game knows that Chelsea were the better side, and were robbed by Anthony Taylor. My question is how long will this continue to happen? There's been a lot of noise on Twitter, but sooner or later it'll all die down and we'll get to watch Anthony Taylor referee another Chelsea game. Here's a short video of a few of Anthony Taylor's wrong decisions against Chelsea.
