THOMAS TUCHEL faces an FA investigation after blasting Anthony Taylor’s performance against Tottenham and appearing to claim the referee is biased against Chelsea.
The Stamford Bridge boss slated Spurs’ two “ridiculous” levellers in Sunday’s fiery 2-2 draw and insisted all his players worry about Taylor.
Football chiefs will look into Tuchel questioning Taylor’s impartiality so blatantly – especially as the German doubled down on his criticism and recommended the ref no longer takes charge of Chelsea games.
Tuchel and Tottenham counterpart Antonio Conte can expect one-game bans for being sent off after the controversial Premier League match.
But the ex-PSG chief ramped up his complaints by backing the opinion of Chelsea fans who have set up a petition calling for Taylor to be excluded from their games.
Asked about supporters’ feelings, Tuchel said: “I don’t think that just some of the fans think that. I can assure you that the whole dressing room of us, every person thinks that.
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“Not only the fans. You know the players, they know what’s going on when they are on the pitch. They know it.”
And he repeated the suggestion that his squad doubt Tayor by saying: “Yeah, of course.”
Tuchel and Tottenham counterpart Antonio Conte will get one-game touchline bans for being sent off at the end of the controversial clash.
And he more than hinted he thought it was unfair that the managers but not Taylor are being punished.
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Tuchel said: “So good! I cannot coach but the referee can whistle the next game.”
Chelsea were staggered that both Spurs’ goals were allowed to stand.
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg netted despite the Blues appealing that Rodrigo Bentancur had fouled Kai Havertz and Richarlison was offside.
And deep in stoppage time Harry Kane levelled after Taylor looked on from just yards away but let Tottenham defender Cristian Romero pull Marc Cucurella over by the hair.
Tuchel said: “I cannot understand how the first goal is not offside and I cannot understand since when players can pull other people’s hair and stay on the pitch and attack in the last corner.”
Chelsea’s unease over Taylor has history.
He’s given more yellow cards to Blues’ players than any other team.
And after a 2-0 home loss to Manchester United in February 2020 Chelsea were irate as Harry Maguire was unpunished for a “stamp” Michy Batshuayi.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
