I’ll Speak To PGMOL About Paul Tierney Disrupting Chelsea’s Huddle – Rosenior

Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior has called on Paul Tierney to focus more on his job as a referee. He recently revealed that he will contact the referees’ body PGMOL after Tierney was in the centre of his side’s pre-match huddle on Saturday.

According to him, knowing fully well that a huddle in the centre of the pitch has become a regular practice for Chelsea in recent weeks, the ref had no business being in the middle of the field at that time.

Rosenior added that the huddle was not disrespectful to the opposition in any way, so it shouldn’t have been disrupted.

His words, “I’m respectful to the game. My players made a decision that they wanted to be around the ball, to respect the ball and show unity and leadership.

That is not my decision. That is a decision between the leadership group and the team. There is nothing that they’re doing with that huddle that is disrespectful to the opposition.

If Paul had focused more on his job, which was to make the right decision, we’d have a penalty today.

I don’t think anyone can say that Woltemade doesn’t kick Cole Palmer’s down in the box.

I didn’t speak to Paul today, I didn’t think it was the right thing. But I’ll be speaking to PGMOL. I’ll be speaking to the refs. Just trying to get an understanding of what happened.”

WOW.

Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.

The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.

On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.

The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.