A bad gesture like no other. This Wednesday evening, Jack Stephens, Southampton defender, was sent off against Chelsea in a match counting for the 14th day of the Premier League for a very surprising reason. The England defender was caught on video assist pulling the hair of his Chelsea counterpart Marc Cucurella.
On an attacking defender for his Saints team in the 36th minute, the 30-year-old, in a duel at the far post with Cucurella, did not hesitate to use his hands, and the Spaniard’s impressive length of hair to remove its marking. Except that the action did not escape the referee of the match Tony Harrington, who asked his VAR to review the images.
Disasi and Nkunku scorers
The sanction is then final. After a few dozen seconds of rewatching, the man in black took out the red one under the eyes of Jack Stephens, stunned by the events. Especially since he left his partners outnumbered and behind in the score (1-3, 39th) after goals in particular from the French Axel Disasi and Christopher Nkunku.
However, this is not a first for Marc Cucurella. The Spaniard from Chelsea also had his hair pulled last August by Tottenham defender Cristian Romero over this same type of action. But the Argentinian escaped without warning. Enough to give bad ideas.
