Possibly, but I don't think he either made any attempt to actually deliberately come into contact with Cech. Happens all the time - and in my opinion a big deal was made of it due to the horrendous consequences for Cech rather than because it was anything cynical.
I have a bit of bias here (especially with the fallout from it effectively getting Hunt sent off for Ireland in Prague a year later), but I honestly can't see anything nasty or even beyond an accident with that incident. To me, its a classic example of a top club manipulating the media, which...