More than a quarter of the match had elapsed and Erling Haaland’s touch count stood at a mere six, one every four minutes.
Yet, Haaland didn’t need to touch the ball to provoke the first spark in what had been a subdued opening between Manchester City and Chelsea on Sunday afternoon. Marc Cucurella didn’t make contact with the ball either but was deemed to have touched Haaland a little too forcefully for Anthony Taylor’s liking, conceding a first-half penalty which the Norwegian ruthlessly dispatched.
In the same week that Chelsea duked out one of the craziest – and most controversial -…
