Lampard and Essien

[The Red Cardinal]

Now I'm not one of these people who subscribe to the 'Sky hate Liverpool' school of thought, but I was amazed at how little coverage (i.e. none) given to Lampard's kickout and Essien's (?) hand in the face of Garcia, aside from some passing comments in the commentary.

Or where they not as bad as they looked?

(I laughed when I saw Essien's hand off in Sky's collage of clips at the end of the show too!)

[TheStig]

Reina got sent off for one of those "hand to the face" moments and apparently that was "inexcusable" to lots of people. Think Essien's hand off was as bad as it looked.

[Mumsafan]

Reina got sent off for one of those "hand to the face" moments and apparently that was "inexcusable" to lots of people. Think Essien's hand off was as bad as it looked.

Gray did comment "At least Garcia didn't throw himself to the floor and make a big scene about that".

I noticed other comments during the game from both commentators that got me thinking that Chelsea aren't their darlings anymore