The most contemptible act on a football pitch is not swapping shirts at half-time. The most contemptible act on a football pitch is swapping shirts at half-time and then proceeding to lose the game.
English clubs have stepped into a drought of early 1990s proportions in European competition. At least back then, they could pin the blame on post-Heysel malaise.
What's their excuse now, one wonders?
Eden Hazard's diffident performance on the night was bad enough. But he enraged pretty much everyone in Stamford Bridge by deeming it appropriate to swap shirts with his opposite number at half-time during tonight's loss to Paris St. Germain.
One might recommend at this point that a player should only swap shirts when victory is assured.
Twitter delivered its usual generous verdict.
Trying to move to PSG? Hazard panned for swapping shirts at HT with Angel di Maria (Video) https://t.co/f41PtXZQoZ pic.twitter.com/EZTliB08Xb
— 101 Great Goals (@101greatgoals) March 9, 2016
Maybe John Terry should have a word with #edenhazard about swapping shirts with an opponent half way through a CL game at the Bridge
— Mark Austin (@markaustinitv) March 9, 2016
Eden Hazard has one of the worst attitudes in football shocking all season, can't confirm he'll stay at his club+swaps shirts at half time?
— Dan Wilson (@Dan_Wils26) March 9, 2016
Jordan Kelly who objected to failure to swap shirts when Chelsea scored - a beautiful piece of fan psychology.
Eden Hazard an embarrassment! Swapping shirts at half time, no emotion when we scored! + the fact he hasn't had a good game all season! ?
— Jordan Kelly (@JordanKellyCFC) March 9, 2016
@gloryglorytott Eden Hazard has been a joke tonight/all season. Swapping shirts at HT then came off because he couldn't be arsed basically
— Chris Baker (@CDBaker86) March 9, 2016
Where has Eden Hazard been? No, really. Where is he? He's even gone from Chelsea's website! https://t.co/MS3hOFG5hN pic.twitter.com/hBi0og2Ml0
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) March 9, 2016
There was some positive commentary from Rafael Hernandez. Long-term, and barring any interaction with deed-poll, he'll always have this. He does sound a tad like a rock-star in a prog rock band.
Eden Hazard, I’ll never get over how cool his name sounds.
— Rafael Hernández (@RafaelH117) March 9, 2016
