Stephen Hunt sent the first letter to Petr Cech. It said he hoped to see him make a speedy recovery. His second letter should be sent to Chelsea, saying he hopes to see them in court.
No matter how many times you rewind the footage, no matter how often you replay the collision between the Reading player and Stamford Bridge's unfortunate goalkeeper, I defy you to demonstrate beyond doubt that there is any evidence of malice.
Although the incident has been reviewed and analysed by pundits with the kind of forensic intensity previously reserved for Abraham Zapruder's Super 8mm film of the JFK assassination, there is just one statement that can be made about Cech's injury without fear of contradiction; it looks like an accident.
Yet Jose Mourinho immediately condemned the fateful moment as "an act of violence" and insisted it was on a par with Ben Thatcher's blatant and cynical elbow on Portsmouth's Pedro Mendes earlier in the season.
This was rubbish, of course, but then the Chelsea boss has a habit of making ill-judged remarks in the heat of the moment.
At least on this occasion the outpouring of emotion was understandable if not excusable. Mourinho had just seen his first-choice goalkeeper whisked to hospital with a fracture of the skull and when a microphone was thrust under his nose on the final whistle his remarks were the inevitable consequence of a naturally skewed perspective.
But the reason why Hunt should consider taking serious steps to clear his name is that the club studied their manager's comments, weighed up their merits overnight, and then announced the following day: "We endorse the post-match comments of Jose Mourinho."
So can we take the following remarks by the Chelsea manager as official club policy on the matter? "Hunt clearly flexed his leg to catch Petr. He dropped his knee. When the keeper has the ball in his hands, what are you going to do? You are only going in there to hurt him," said Mourinho, before adding Cech was "lucky to be alive".
It is something to say a player has cheated. It is quite another to suggest he could have killed a fellow professional with a deliberate attack. If we are looking for evidence of a premeditated assault, surely this is it? At best the club and Mourinho may be guilty of slander; at worst, it is an accusation of quite unthinkable proportions.
Mourinho then peered over his grassy knoll again and had the gall to claim the incident should be compared to Michael Essien's notoriously vicious studs-up lunge at Didi Hamann, another ridiculous conspiracy theory that is presumably endorsed by the club.
The Football Association are now considering taking action against Chelsea for their inflammatory comments and typically paranoid onslaught on common sense, rather than target Hunt.
Quite right. Look at the incident for yourself. You will see a player moving at high speed in pursuit of a ball on a slick surface collide with a goalkeeper who came rushing out at his feet.
Hunt certainly had a case for following the ball. He could have got there a split-second earlier and won a penalty, or he might have pressured Cech into spilling possession. Either way, it was a legitimate match incident. I did not see him raise a boot, aim a knee, drop his leg or do anything other than clash with an opponent.
For Hunt to deliberately take out Cech, as Mourinho and others claim, it follows that he made a conscious decision to connect with his kneecap, which is never the most sensible of options. If in doubt, ask Reading's thoroughly decent manger Steve Coppell and he will tell you all you need to know about how a career can be ended early by a knee injury.
Some observers also claim Hunt "looked down" just before contact, as if this was some kind of smoking gun. Well, of course he did. He was looking down at the ball and at the goalkeeper at his feet. What was he supposed to do? Look to the sky? Close his eyes?
Obviously, Chelsea are going to be dismayed by the loss of a key player, but trying to mount a witch-hunt against a relative unknown who had picked up only one yellow card before this incident says more about them than Hunt.
I hope Chelsea see sense and quietly drop their complaint. I hope their replacement goalkeeper performs admirably tomorrow night. I hope the best team wins when they face Barcelona. Above all, I hope Cech recovers from his terrible injury soon.
But anyone who suggests it was anything other than an accident needs their head examined.


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