Mourinho blasts Hunt over Cech head injury

STEPHEN HUNT had waited 26 years to realise his dream of starting a Premiership game; within as many seconds of its kick-off he had also achieved notoriety.

Not long after a final whistle blast that confirmed nine-man Chelsea had overcome ten-man Reading, the winger from Waterford was in the dock as Jose Mourinho engaged in trial by television.

Hunt didn’t have to be smuggled out of a Madejski Stadium side-door with a blanket over his head but Judge Jose had certainly pronounced him guilty and the former Brentford player, unlikely to have loomed too largely on the Special One’s radar before Saturday, found himself having to issue a tersely worded, and heavily vetted, statement of denial before the evening was out.