Players who hand out their shirts to fans in the crowd have long been a tradition after the game in football, but Enzo Fernandez has taken that to a whole new level.
Chelsea returned from 1-0 on Monday to beat West Ham 2-1 in Stamford Bridge, Pedro Neto Equalizing after Jarrod Bowen's first half opener, for an own goal of Aaron Wan-Bissaka.
The victory sent the blues back in the top four after the second competition win of Chelsea since mid -December.
But while Cole Palmer was not surprisingly flooded with requests for their shirts, Fernandez walked to a group of supporters before she surprised the most viewers to stop to stop his shorts.
The Argentinian world cup winner then jogged to the stands before he threw his now denied shorts at a fan and went back to the dressing room in his underwear and shirt.
Perhaps surprised by the surprise gift, the fan then turned to his colleague supporters and sniffed his new piece of kit before posing for a selfie.
“There were quite a few people after Cole Palmer's shorts at the end, but what happened then got a happy fan Enzo's Shorts,” said Sky Sports -guest David Jones when images of the incident were played on broadcast.
While the fan raises them to his nose, he left a very surprised Jamie Carragher a 'whoa!' While he laughed at what he saw alongside blues legend Gianfranco Zola, who was also in the studio.
“Put them straight into the washing machine on a hot wash,” Jones joked before he asked Zola.
“Have you ever thrown your shorts to the crowd, Gianfranco?”
It is not surprising that the Italian legend then answered: “No.”
After he had trouble realizing his hefty £ 107 million fee with the blues, Fernandez had hit a purple patch that coincided with Chelsea's own results until mid -December.
Against Man City last week, however, he came in for strict criticism from Gary Neville, who questioned the capacity of the 24-year-old to take control of a match and to recognize profitable circumstances on the field, along with some of his teammates .
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'They could have gone 2-0, but I mentioned players who were programmed as robots. If you admit, scores, if you can see that another team is vulnerable or feels a nervousness in the ground, you have to be able to adapt, “he started on the podcast of Gary Neville.
“There is some experience that is there. (Moises) Caicedo, (Enzo) Fernandez I look in particular and even Cole Palmer now, which he has done in the last 18 months. Reece James.
'I look at those four in particular:' You must have felt that at that moment in the game the boy in the middle behind, (Matheus) nunes on the right, the midfield that can't really run, you had to go for the neck “.
“I said it at the time and they missed a real chance because they were programmed before the game to play a certain way. They could not switch to fully press. The game had changed. I feel that I would have smoked that in United if I was there. '
Fernandez and Co will then be in action on Saturday when they travel to the south coast to look opposite Brighton in the FA Cup fourth round, for exactly the same fixture the following Friday.
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