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A current Premier League player has been spotted in the background of one of the top flight’s most bizarre viral moments.
It was November 2009 and Chelsea – who would go on to win the Premier League that season under Carlo Ancelotti – were taking on Man United in a league match at Stamford Bridge.
The Blues won the match 1–0 thanks to John Terry’s 76th minute winner, but the match is remembered for an extremely strange reason.
With the match dying down, United boss Sir Alex Ferguson brought on Michael Owen and Gabriel Obertan for Anderson and Ryan Giggs, while Ancelotti brought on Didier Drogba for Salomon Kalou.
However, as the camera panned to the dugout, eagle-eyed supporters spotted a fan at the front of the stands brushing his teeth as this all took place.
A current Premier League player has been spotted in the background of one of the top flight’s most bizarre viral moments, when a Chelsea fan brushed his teeth in the middle of a match
During Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Man United, a supporter was seen on camera behind the dugout
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It’s one of the most bizarre moments in Premier League history, but to make it even more exciting, Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah appeared to be sitting just one row behind the tooth-brushing supporter.
Chalobah joined the Blues academy at the age of eight and is now 24. Since then he has made 63 appearances for the club, although he is yet to feature this season due to injury.
The defender also enjoyed loan spells at Ipswich, Huddersfield and Lorient during his early years.
He would have been only 10 years old at the time of the video, in which he appears calm but somewhat confused about what was going on.
Posting on x, formerly Twitter, former Chelsea youngster Milan Lalkovic revealed Chalobah’s identity in the clip when he said: ‘Trev Chalobah and my dad behind the man (brushing his teeth) are just so funny. My dad just thinks wtf.’
The supporter has gone down in history for his bizarre act and at the time BBC Radio 5 Live’s telephone program 606 launched an appeal to find the man who was following the match.
Someone named Dave came up and told host DJ Spoony, “I wanted to go to the game and I put it (the toothbrush) in my pocket and forgot to brush my teeth.
‘I thought no one was watching. I always brush my teeth before I go anywhere. I thought no one was watching me.’
Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah sat just one row behind the teeth-brushing fan
The supporter explained that he simply forgot to brush his teeth before going out
Chalobah made 63 appearances for the Blues after joining the academy at the age of eight
Ex-Chelsea youngster Milan Lalkovic revealed Chalobah’s identity in the viral moment
He made the whole situation even stranger when he further explained the outfit he was wearing.
He continued, “I saw my ex-girlfriend at the game. The reason I wore sunglasses was to hide my face, because I like girls, I like women.
“I think I’m a ladies’ man and I’m very good looking.”
Chalobah – whose brother Nathaniel also came through the club but now plays for West Brom – has been linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge this month, although any move may be thwarted due to his ongoing injury problems.
