It has long since been a factor of Chelsea's play that they like to surround referees like a pack of wolves and that falling to the floor is probably a strong training routine but it seems now like they have a social media training session as well to bleat about decisions that don't go their way.

And the media unfortunately play right into their hands in the way that they go about it by siding with them but seemingly blind to every decision that goes for them and only interested in the decisions that go against them.

Let's put this though on record straight away, I am completely of the opinion that Gary Cahill was fouled by Leroy Fer in the lead up to the Swans' second goal. AT the time I didn't think it was but having watched the replays then it is a foul and one of those decisions that went our way.

But to see a professional player, an England international at that, bleat on social media and come out with 'toys out of the pram' comments like he did yesterday just sums up the mentality that Chelsea have excelled at in recent years and a good reason why so many people highlight them as a club lacking class.

For Mr Cahill perhaps he would like to think about the dangerous play of Diego Costa's equaliser - an act of play that had it been anywhere else on the pitch would have resulted in a yellow card and a free kick for us. Look at the fact that Kyle Naughton lay prone on the floor as Costa celebrated and tell me that it was not a high boot and therefore dangerous.

The n take the late foul on Ki - conveniently not even shown on Match of the Day - and wonder whether we could have had a penalty. Would have been a soft one to concede but watch Stoke v Man City from a few weeks back and tell me the difference between the penalties there and the one that wasn't given yesterday.

And that is before you wonder whether Costa himself could have been given a second yellow card yesterday. Costa is a very clever player - someone who is very easy to hate as well - but he sails very close to the mark and can very often consider himself lucky to remain on the pitch. However, the fact that he does often shows just how referees do tend to favour the big teams with decisions. Do you firmly believe that LLorente would have been on the pitch for the 90 minutes yesterday had he played the game the same way as Costa did? I don't.

Maybe these things are something that the serial whingers of Chelsea need to remember when they get one decision that goes against them. Chris Sutton - a former Chelsea player and clearly well versed in the hard done by attitude - said it could make a huge difference at the end of the season as if all the decisions that go for them don't matter to the opposition. He also argued that Fer's goal should not count but ignored the other decisions that went the way of the visitors. Are you surprised? No, nor me.

I find it quite funny that for once we got a decision over them and the fact that it riled them so much but then again would you expect a club captained by the odious John Terry to react any differently?

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karnataka added 18:50 - Sep 15 If Fer's goal had been scored against a less fashionable club, say for example, West Brom, it would barely have warranted a discussion on MOTD, there would have been general agreement and much nodding of heads that it was a foul and they'd move on to the next match. The longer term problem, however, is that due to the massively over the top high profile coverage this incident has received and the massively over the top high profile reaction from the increasingly childish Chelsea players, is this sense of wrongdoing going to be in a referees's head every time Chelsea take to the pitch and was that the real aim of all the whinging in the first place? Just a new twist on the referee crowding that Chelsea have spent years perfecting now that it has been outlawed?

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