I didn't think that Bennet should have got a straight red, that would have been harsh! I also thought the 2nd yellow on Willian was wrong, but it was clearly just an error of judgement by the referee. The same as it was an error of judgement to send off Kaboul and award your lot a penalty against Spurs, and the same as it was an error of judgement to award Ramirez a late penalty against West Brom. Chelsea have had there fair share of favourable decisions this season, the same as most teams do. You have to take the rough with the smooth with the refereeing decisions. You can't refuse to have certain referee just because they made a genuine error against you. Dermot Gallagher went through all the sendings off that Chris Foy had given against you, and apart from the Willian one on Saturday, they where all blatant red cards, so I really don't see how you can accuse him of having an agenda against you
The best you could argue is that Foy's game management skills aren't the best, but the Terry/Ferdinand game was also difficult for reasons that were not the ref's fault, and being a professional footballer should give you a responsiblilty to behave in the best interests of your team even when the decision is wrong against you.
To suggest Foy's stats against us are just coincidence takes some believing. Our players were apparently discussing this before the game and were proved right. Don't forget it's not just the fouls you see on tv but the whole demeanour and what he says to the players that give them the impression he's biased and looking for excuses. Time and again they are proven right.
5 of the 8 have no doubt (horror tackles from Maniche, Drogba, Ramires and professional fouls by Alex and Boswinga) The questionable ones were: Robben (2nd yellow for celebrating with crowd, letter of the law, no effect on result) Hazard (ballboy incident, stupid from Hazard, acting from ballboy, bizarre incident in general) Willian (harsh 2nd yellow) Right or wrong, Foy will 'randomly' not be selected for a Chelsea game for a long time
Bosingwa was yellow at best. Like I said it's his whole attitude you need to consider and how that effects things. It's bizarre to suggest we just get bad tacklers and players lose their cool etc when Foy happens to be ref.
you are so negative. Villa manager said it was the best performance by Villa under him as a manager. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26597848
