The whole huddle shebang at Chelsea was just really odd and somehow embodies the state of the club today as a comic, pretentious, over-serious but incoherent mess.
What I don’t get is what Paul Tierney was doing in that circle of Chelsea players in the first place and why, on finding himself there, he didn’t just barge his way out.
The last thing you’d do is just stand there, pretending it wasn’t happening, too embarrassed to push your way through.
It was an illustration of the referee’s weakness or stupidity. Ooh, don’t want to upset the boys by telling them to feck off with their circle of mediocrity. Evidently, as Joe Hart said, “Paul Tierney’s got a point he wants to make about the opposition having the…