by L r d Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:45 pm
However, a South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust spokesman told BBC Five Live that it took seven minutes.
He also said a Chelsea doctor had made the decision not to use a stretcher.
News conference: Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho
Cech was injured after a collision with Reading's Stephen Hunt.
Chelsea want the Football Association to look at that challenge, and both the Premiership champions and Reading issued statements on the matter on Tuesday.
We believe there are serious questions that warrant further investigation by the relevant authority
Chelsea statement
"Chelsea Football Club will be submitting a letter to the Football Association over the next few days regarding a number of issues that arose from the match at Reading last Saturday," said a statement from Stamford Bridge on Tuesday.
"We can confirm that questions regarding the two tackles on Petr Cech and Carlo Cudicini, and the medical procedures to treat the injuries sustained by our players, will be in the submission.
"We have not prejudged the outcome of this submission and Chelsea FC want to stress that we will be asking the FA to look into these issues.
"But we believe there are serious questions that warrant further investigation by the relevant authority."
But BBC Radio Five Live sports news correspondent Gordon Farquhar reported on Tuesday that the local NHS Trust has disputed Chelsea's version of events.
"We understand from the ambulance trust it was Chelsea's doctor who asked for the ambulance to be called when he realised Cech's condition was perhaps more serious than may at first have been the assessment," Farquhar said.
This is much more important than football
Jose Mourinho
"At 5.45pm it was decided that an ambulance should be called. It arrived at 5.52 - seven minutes after the call was made - and at 11 minutes past six he was in hospital.
"So 26 minutes after the call was made to the ambulance, he actually arrived in hospital."
Cech was taken off the pitch on a stretcher but transported to the ambulance in a wheelchair.
Mourinho criticised this but Farquhar said the ambulance trust claimed it was a Chelsea doctor who opted to use a wheelchair rathern than a stretcher.
He added: "The Chelsea doctor was offered a choice of two routes to take Cech away from the dressing room.
"He could either go on a stretcher in front of the crowd or put in a wheelchair and taken down in a lift.
"The Chelsea doctor made the decision as to how Petr Cech left the dressing room. He chose that he should go in a wheelchair and use the lift.
"They say there was no medical reason for him necessarily to have gone on a stretcher - that he would have been okay either way."
Earlier Mourinho said: "My goalkeeper was in the dressing room for 30 minutes waiting for an ambulance.
Another route to the ambulance could have been taken and was offered, which would have allowed Cech to remain on a stretcher (the same route used to take Carlo Cudicini to the ambulance later that afternoon)
Reading Football Club's statement
"The ambulance could not go in the direction of the dressing room.
"He could not leave the dressing room properly. He had to go in a wheelchair in the lift when he had the injury.
"He left 30 minutes after my doctor called for an urgent ambulance.
"If my goalkeeper dies in that dressing room or in the process it is something English football has to think about.
"This is much more important than football. I would like someone to tell me why my goalkeeper was left in this situation."
Reading Football Club also made a statement on Tuesday in response to Mourinho's allegations.
"Mr Mourinho has clearly implied that Reading Football Club did not have the proper medical arrangements in place to provide Petr Cech with the best possible treatment," the club said on its website.
"We feel it necessary to clearly set the record straight and provide the actual facts of the treatment received by the player."
Reading's statement then sets out a timeline of what happened in the wake of Cech's injury.
The Royals said that at 1721, five minutes after the collision happened, Chelsea 's medical staff decided not to call an ambulance. At 1740, according to Reading, "Cech's condition deteriorated" and Chelsea's doctor called for assistance, "which was immediately raised".
Reading said an ambulance was then called at 1745, and that it arrived at 1752, departing for hospital at 1804, and arriving at the Royal Berkshire Hospital at 1811.
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the nhs and reading are both lying and not jose ok sure. Jose said it because he always seems to like to be the victim and act like this.