Zlatan Ibrahimovic Accuses Chelsea Of ‘Acting Like Babies’ To Get Him Sent Off

Chris Wright

12th, March 2015

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By Chris Wright

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic has derided Chelsea for “acting like babies” in their (successful) attempts to get him sent off in the truly shameful Champions League bitch-fest that played out at Stamford Bridge last night.

Chelsea’s entire outfield (barring Oscar, who was in full histrionic mode, screaming into the turf at the time) swarmed around referee Bjorn Kuipers after the Swedish striker went in for a fairly standard 50/50 challenge with the Brazilian – with the ensuing engineered cacophony coaxing the referee into brandishing the red in Zlatan’s direction with just 31 minutes played.

“When I got the red card all the Chelsea players come around,” Zlatan mithered to reporters after the game.

“It felt like I had a lot of babies around me.”

“I don’t know if I have to get angry or start to laugh. For me when I saw the red card I was like ‘the guy doesn’t know what he’s doing’.

“I don’t know if (Oscar) was acting afterwards. Doesn’t matter. We won the game, we went through and let’s see what happens.”

Let’s not kid ourselves however. If a mirror image of the non-incident had happened at the other end of the pitch then it would have undoubtedly been a swarm of red shirts around the referee. It was just that kind of night.

We’ve taken a while to process what we saw at Stamford Bridge and we’re still frankly appalled at the shit-show that played out, though it’s all part of the dance these days; the generation of infantile, consciously deceitful footballer we’ve given rise to.

What’s most disappointing is that you’ve got two teams chock-full of supposedly elite talent – both attacking and defensive – and we as fans are repeatedly served up nothing more than 90+ minutes of wall-to-wall diving and whinging.

As we said during the game, we wholeheartedly agree with Sky Sports pundit Graeme Souness, who lambasted both sides for resorting to inferior, cry-arse spoiler tactics  – and that’s an uneasy feeling at the best of times.

When games, at whatever level, are being decided solely by gamesmanship and cheating, then something somewhere is fundamentally broken.