Jeremy Clarkson has bizarrely claimed Erling Haaland ‘scored with his anus’ during Sunday’s Premier League thriller between Chelsea and Manchester City.
The Norway international netted the first goal of the game from the penalty spot during the match at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea levelled through Thiago Silva and then went ahead via Raheem Sterling.
City are champions for a reason, however, and equalised following a goal from defender Manuel Akanji.
Harland scored that with his anus
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) November 12, 2023
Haaland put the visitors back in front in the early stages of the second half, bundling the ball in from close range.
After a VAR check, the effort was allowed to stand.
And Clarkson, writing on social media, said: “Harland (sic) scored that with his anus.”
Domino’s Pizza was among those to reply to the former Top Gear presenter, saying: “streaky bum time.”
Another fan said: “Who got the ASSist?”
A third bigged up Haaland by saying: “Haaland can score with anything.”
A fourth quipped: “No ands, ifs or butts about it.”
And a fifth weighed in by saying: “So long as it’s not a handy , it’s a goal.”
For a while, it seemed as though Haaland’s goal would be enough to give City all three points.
Yet Chelsea once again drew level through striker Nicholas Jackson, who bagged his fourth goal of the week having netted a hat-trick against Tottenham last Monday.
City thought they’d won the match late on when Rodri’s deflected strike soared into the bottom corner.
But Chelsea earned a late penalty when Armando Broja was fouled in the box, with Cole Palmer then duly converting.
Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino was enraged at full time when referee Anthony Taylor blew the final whistle.
Yet the Argentine has promised to apologise, saying: “I need to apologise to Anthony and the [assistant] referees and the fourth official.
“In this moment, I feel that maybe Raheem can go through and go to score the fifth and when the game finishes, I turn and say: ‘What the … ?’
“I said: ‘Why stop in this moment, the action?’ Then I turned and said: ‘I deserve to be booked.’
“Because I crossed the limit so I want to apologise because it’s not a good image for me and for football, this type of behaviour.”
City boss Pep Guardiola, meanwhile, admitted he enjoyed the spectacle despite his side’s failure to secure victory.
“It was a good advert and entertaining game for the Premier League and both teams wanted to win,” he said.
“I wouldn’t have expected differently Chelsea have a fantastic team and players.
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“And we know they always play good against fantastic side.
“We took the game [to Chelsea] it was difficult to control and they had quality from Cole Palmer and Mykhailo Mudryk.
“The players to dribble and run it was difficult to control the game – they were aggressive.”
“We have momentum [during the game] two or three transitions one-on-one which we could not finish, but the game was in the moment at the end.
“A tight game, but a fair result.
“I congratulate the team, we go into the break and we qualify for the Champions League and we come back [after the international break] and go.”
