exactly what I think - maybe it wasn't deliberate, but he certainly didn't try to avoid it

Would have been easy enough to jump over Cech but he didn't.

I think that maybe for a split second something in his head said to him "nail the keeper", and you can see a definite downwards movement towards Cech by Hunt's knee.

So although his intention almost certainly wasn't to hurt Cech, maybe part of him thought that it wouldn't be such a bad outcome.

I think that a lot of the people defending Hunt are only doing so because it's Chelsea - the way we all would have done if it happened to Man Utd in the early 90s.

If someone had done that to a Norwich keeper, I'm sure everyone on here would have been demanding a suspension.

I'm not saying it was anything like Ben Thatcher's assault on Mendes, but you have to look at it objectively.

Posted By: Hull Canary on October 16th 2006 at 10:42:35

Message Thread

Cech/Hunt - what's the WOTB verdict? (Other Football) - Old Git, Oct 16, 10:34:20
- Cech slid into Hunt - have a look at BBC slow mo pictures (n/m) (Other Football) - Commisar_Canary, Oct 16, 14:36:13
- Pat Nevin, Jamie Redknapp, and Shay Given all said the same. (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Oct 16, 10:48:32
- Thought both were really. Second one, if a keeper flew out and took 3 players out (Other Football) - pants, Oct 16, 10:38:54
- Clearly an accident... (Other Football) - Wiltshire Yellow, Oct 16, 10:36:48
- I don't think it was deliberate as such... (Other Football) - Brom, Oct 16, 10:35:56
  - Accident, Both Times (Other Football) - Martin Peters, Oct 16, 10:44:39
  - exactly what I think - maybe it wasn't deliberate, but he certainly didn't try to avoid it (Other Football) - Hull Canary, Oct 16, 10:42:35
    - Do you know, having now looked at the replay from behind the goal (Other Football) - Old Git, Oct 16, 10:44:41
      - that replay from behind is the clincher (Other Football) - Hull Canary, Oct 16, 10:51:44

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