{"id":58743,"date":"2024-11-13T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-you-were-disrespectful-obi-mikel-slams-havertz-over-gesture-at-chelsea-fans\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:04:48","slug":"epl-you-were-disrespectful-obi-mikel-slams-havertz-over-gesture-at-chelsea-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-you-were-disrespectful-obi-mikel-slams-havertz-over-gesture-at-chelsea-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: You were disrespectful \u2013 Obi Mikel slams Havertz over gesture at Chelsea fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Chelsea midfielder, John Obi-Mikel, has criticised Arsenal forward, Kai Havertz, for being disrespectful to Blues\u2019 fans.<\/p>\n<p>The former defensive midfielder was referring to an incident involving the Germany International in the Gunners\u2019 1-1 Premier League draw at Stamford Bridge at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Havertz, a former Chelsea player, thought he had opened the scoring for the Gunners.<\/p>\n<p>The German, who was at the receiving end of boos from Stamford Bridge fans all night, responded by gesturing to the crowd to stay quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Obi-Mikel said no matter what, the player\u2019s action was disrespectful to the fans of the club where he played and won trophies, including the Champions League and Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Obi Mikel said on the Obi One podcast, \u201cLooking back at it, if he wakes up this morning, I think it\u2019s just the adrenaline and passion of the game that made him do that, but I still think it\u2019s a bit disrespectful to a club that you\u2019ve played for and won trophies for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I played for Chelsea, I wasn\u2019t the most liked player. Some of the fans didn\u2019t appreciate me as much as they should. But that didn\u2019t stop me from loving the club and doing my job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you leave the football club and come back, and score, I think you should still show some respect. You can still celebrate, but not shush the fans. I don\u2019t know the reason why that happened, but for me, it was a little bit disrespectful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: You were disrespectful \u2013 Obi Mikel slams Havertz over gesture at Chelsea fans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea midfielder, John Obi-Mikel, has criticised Arsenal forward, Kai Havertz, for being disrespectful to Blues\u2019 fans. The former defensive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,194,3444,15,9380,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-epl","category-havertz","category-news","category-obi-mikel","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}