Posted November 16, 200618 yr Police are investigating death threats made to the Reading players involved in incidents in which Chelsea keepers Petr Cech and Carlo Cudicini were injured. Ibrahima Sonko and Stephen Hunt have received a series of letters at the club's Arborfield training ground. Thames Valley Police told BBC Sport: "The club is helping us with inquiries and the matter is being investigated." A Chelsea spokesman added: "There is nothing to suggest these threats came from genuine Chelsea fans." According to the Reading Chronicle newspaper, one letter said: "We are going to kill you for what you did to our players." Reading players treated the first letter as a joke and pinned it up on the door of the training ground dressing-room. But when subsequent letters arrived, players were told to treat the threats seriously and the club called in the police to investigate. Cech is not expected to play again this season after sustaining a fractured skull in a first-minute collision with Hunt in the game at the Madejski stadium on 14 October. Cudicini needed oxygen after being stretchered off in a last-minute collision with Sonko, and only recently returned to action. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho hit out at Hunt's challenge, but neither Hunt nor Sonko faced any sanction from the Football Association. Winger Hunt, on international duty with the Republic of Ireland, said: "The club is dealing with all my letters and I don't want to say any more." Sonko confirmed he had received a letter but made no further comment. Chelsea's spokesman added: "Naturally, we condemn any threats of this nature and we will assist the police fully if - and we stress if - there is any evidence linking theses threats to any of our supporters." We passed the mail onto the police, but no extra security precautions were taken, the players weren't affected and it's not an issue." Reading boss Steve Coppell played down the death threats. "We wanted to keep it quiet, and didn't make an issue of it. We went through the proper channels and hoped it would die a death. To regurgitate it now is of no benefit to anybody. "I don't think it's for public consumption. It's something different for the media to report but it serves no purpose to anybody else." Source: BBC Sport Sore losers. EVERY team looses their players to serious injuries and you don't go and see fans making a big deal out of it as its football and it happens. Its not like the Reading players actually set out to injury Cech and Cudicini, yet a couple of Chelsea fans are really taking all this too far. Shame a couple of bad fans give the rest of Chelsea fans a very bad reputation among football fans.
November 16, 200618 yr well i don't think it would come from chelsea's fans but then again they might.
November 16, 200618 yr Author well i don't think it would come from chelsea's fans but then again they might. I definitley think it came from the Chelsea fans. Its just a shame though that 2 or 3 Chelsea fans bring a real bad reputation for all of the rest of the Chelsea fans.
November 16, 200618 yr Why wouldn't they come from Chelsea fans? It's obvious that they would have. Bunch of moaning gits!
November 16, 200618 yr and we have Arsenal fans graffiting Ashley Cole's front wall at his house too -_- These people should even be mentioned in the same breath as true fans
November 17, 200618 yr Author This isn't the first time supposive Chelsea fans have done this either. There was that Referee, I can't remember his name but he retired because of all the abuse he was getting from people. :o
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