Tim Howard head butts César Azpilicueta right in front of ref (Video)

Chelsea and Everton are squaring off in a pretty hotly contested game on Saturday afternoon. There was an interesting situation in the second half when Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard made a remarkable run into the box to beat his defender. Along the touch line it looked like Hazard was sending a dangerous cross into the box.

Everton midfielder Seamus Coleman tried to get a foot on it to knock it out of bounds but it actually redirected it on goal behind Howard and between the goal post.

After goal as Chelsea players were celebrating, American goal keeper Tim Howard didn’t appreciate it and confronted the Chelsea players. He runs out of goal like a mad man to confront them, with little support from his teammates.

Howard wasn’t done either. Chelsea’s César Azpilicueta was doing something or complaining to the ref and Howard confronted him, right in front of the referee. It isn’t quite a head butt but he gets in his face, puts his forehead against him and pushes back.

Howard kind of looks like a mad man right now, but you have to give Azpilicueta props for not trying to sell the head butt and embellish with a flop. That would’ve been the chance to do it, but of course he was so close to the ref it might have been sniffed out.

Howard did get a yellow card for the incident.

[UPDATE:] It looks like Timmy Howard just didn’t appreciate his teammate being mocked. Look at the beginning of the video and you can see Coleman being mocked by Diego Costa for the own goal, setting Howard off to defend his teammate.