Ashley Barnes gets away with that Nemanja Matic tackle: here's what the Chelsea fans think

That anti-Chelsea conspiracy talk just got a little bit louder. Here’s the FA’s reasoning for why Ashley Barnes will face no action for his foul on Nemanja Matic during Burnley’s 2-2 draw with the Blues at the weekend. FA clarification on the incident involving Burnley’s Ashley Barnes and Chelsea’s Nemanja Matic to follow: 1/5 — The FA (@FA) February 23, 2015 In the vast majority of challenges for the ball, no retrospective action is taken as the incident has been seen by the match officials 2/5 — The FA (@FA) February 23, 2015 Retrospective action introduced as deterrent for ‘off the ball incidents’ [e.g. kicks, stamps etc.] committed out of sight of officials 3/5 — The FA (@FA) February 23, 2015 Whole game in agreement that, in vast majority of cases, match officials are best-placed to deal with incidents to avoid re-refereeing 4/5 — The FA (@FA) February 23, 2015 In line with this rationale, FA confirm no further action in relation to Ashley Barnes as incident was seen by the officials 5/5 — The FA (@FA) February 23, 2015 A reminder of the tackle in question… Ashley Barnes faces no action from @FA for this. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/3Pm8cP3voN — Sam (@samuelJayC) February 23, 2015 Here’s what seems like a rational, neutral reaction to the news. No FA retrospective action against Ashley Barnes for his challenge on Matic. No surprise. Not a biased system, but certainly a flawed system — Oliver Kay (@OliverKayTimes) February 23, 2015 FA were never going to act against Ashley Barnes. Officials saw it. So it comes back to English refs being soft on potential leg-breakers. — Paul Hayward (@_PaulHayward) February 23, 2015 And here’s how the Chelsea fans are reacting. The campaign is very much real and strong. They will do anything and everything to see Chelsea ending trophyless. — Marshad! (@BeardedMagician) February 23, 2015 And then they say we're paranoid for believing there's a Campaign against Chelsea. — #JeSuisNemanja (@CescOffender) February 23, 2015 Campaign against Chelsea is real. — ✌ (@rauhlson) February 23, 2015 I don't care if I'm embarrassing myself by saying this but it's 100% certain there's a campaign against Chelsea @ABand98 — Chris (@Chris_EH_JM_CFC) February 23, 2015 No ban for Barnes. FA are doing well to rubbish Mourinho's "absurd" accusation of there being a campaign against Chelsea. Absolute joke. — Joe Townsend (@Joe_Townsend) February 23, 2015 Anyone who says there isn't a campaign against Chelsea now needs to open their eyes. You can't have all these decisions go against you 1/3 — Matt Coleman PT (@MattColeman93) February 23, 2015 its official . there is infact a campaign against chelsea — Juan Bendrado (@TheBenaldinho) February 23, 2015 The @FA are an absolute joke… If that had been a chelsea player made that tackle he'd be facing a 10 game ban… #Campaign — Barry kane (@Bazk12) February 23, 2015 Now its understandable why Jose Mourinho says its a campaign against Chelsea. Thats the evidence that it is. — Rolando (@RicharnVP) February 23, 2015 This is clearly a campaign against Chelsea. @FA always anti-Chelsea!!! — OLOWONIGBA Juwon (@olowonigbajk) February 23, 2015 If you can't beat us…cheat us!!! #Campaignagainstchelsea #Justiceformatic — Suvrâ’¶t Blue❤ Kothari (@Suvrat65CFC09) February 23, 2015 Yes, you read that last one right – there is a #justiceformatic hashtag. Chelsea have launched an appeal against Matic’s red card after he pushed Barnes in retaliation. As strongly as so many Chelsea fans believe there’s a campaign against there team, so many fans of other clubs think they’re being ridiculous. Chelsea fans actually think there's a campaign against them I thought they were joking, oh dear. — Mootaz (@Mootaz_LFC) February 23, 2015 It's very telling that the only people who genuinely think there's a campaign against Chelsea are Chelsea fans. — James (@Gunnerblogger97) February 23, 2015 Chelsea fans are unbelieveble — Ratbag The Coward (@Dev14__) February 23, 2015 Same Chelsea fans who thought Costa didn't deserve a ban for a stamp are now crying over no ban for Barnes. — -Man'Utd- (@_imran_mufc_) February 23, 2015 How are Chelsea fans taking the rules of the game like a personal attack? Deluded bunch. — AFC Dan (@ArsenalFCDan) February 23, 2015 Mad how angry Chelsea fans are about Ashley Barnes not being suspended. It really doesn't affect them at all from this point. It's Burnley. — The VfG (@ViewFromGwladys) February 23, 2015 People moaning to the FA even though they gave a perfectly valid, logical explanation Get over yourselves Chelsea fans — Conor (@C0n0rMacG) February 23, 2015 And here’s what you might call the middle ground. I'm not one to side with Chelsea, but it seems to me that Barnes tackle was a leg breaker. Should be a red/ban IMO. — GoonerGordo (@GoonerGordo) February 23, 2015 I don't believe in a campaign against Chelsea. But now I believe that the FA is just horrible. — Muayyad K. (@Muayyad_K) February 23, 2015 The "campaign" stuff is nonsense but Mourinho is bang on about potential risk to Matic. Chelsea are lucky he's only out for three games — Liam Twomey (@liam_twomey) February 23, 2015 I dislike Chelsea a lot but I think Barnes should have received a ban for his actions. He did a very dangerous tackle but gets away with it. — RA (@RelatedArsenal) February 23, 2015 Im loathe to defend chelsea but if Atkinson has seen that Barnes tackle and there's no action taken then he should never ref again #FA #Joke — Lee Husson (@LeeHusson) February 23, 2015

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