Chelsea's Gary Cahill wants you to know about that second Swansea goal

Chelsea centre-back Gary Cahill knew Leroy Fer fouled him in the 62nd minute, leading to Swansea City’s go-ahead goal. Now that he has seen the replays, the defender is combining Costa-level anger with Batshuayi-style Twitter skills.

Swansea City’s first goal against Chelsea came after some inexcusable decision-making from (ahem) world-class goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. Cheaply surrendered, but honestly taken. Three minutes later, though, Leroy Fer dispossessed Chelsea’s Gary Cahill with a nifty foul that Andre Mariner did not call. Fer went through on goal to give the Swans the lead.

Gary Cahill is now making sure that everyone, starting with his 843,000 Twitter followers, knows exactly how that goal came to be.

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— Gary Cahill (@GaryJCahill) September 11, 2016

Just in case there was any ambiguity about his thoughts on the subject, he followed up:

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Today’s tweets are almost assuredly his. Call it the Batshuayi Effect. Chelsea players’ Twitter games have gotten noticeably stronger since the young Belgian arrived over the summer. You can almost see Cahill fuming in the locker room as Diego Costa eggs him on and Michy Batshuayi shows him how to upload a gif.

Hopefully the Premier League and Football Association will not take offence or otherwise think Cahill is bringing the game into disrepute with his tweeted comments. Even though he only used one actual word, the message is pretty indisputable. The disciplinary committees may not know the difference between an emoji and a Pokemon, but they definitely know exactly what Cahill is saying.

The powers-that-be turned Jose Mourinho into a decent revenue stream for his post-match comments. Let’s hope they don’t overreact and do the same for Gary Cahill’s gif-is-worth-a-thousand-words post-match comments.

The FA seems to be slowly learning about this whole “social media” thing now that they’re investigating four-year old offensive tweets from Burnley’s Andre Gray. For better or worse, players let the fans get closer when they pick up their phone and let it fly. If Gary Cahill wants to be more like Michy Batshuayi on Twitter, we’ll all be the better off for it.