TERRACE TALK: Chelsea: Keep this up and we could very well blow this league

Is it any wonder that Jose is getting increasingly paranoid, writes Trizia Fiorellino.

How can you witness a ‘refereeing’ display such as Martin Atkinson’s and not have dark thoughts? These constant refereeing mistakes at the very least make you think either that there is something dubious going on or that Atkinson is spectacularly inept — neither scenario is ideal, is it?

No one expects a referee to get every decision right in a game — but then neither do we expect them to get every major decision wrong. In fact the only thing he really got right was sending Matic off — by the laws of the game, he had to go.