Marcelo Bielsa sitting in his bucket

Surjit Patowary

(Video) Marcelo Bielsa is such a purist he apologised to Reece James who was time-wasting

Chelsea, Leeds United, Marcelo Bielsa, Reece James

The Argentine might be the nicest man in football

Marcelo Bielsa was seen apologising to Reece James as the Leeds United manager thought his staff and Ian Poveda had accidentally hit the Chelsea left-back with the ball during a throw-in at Stamford Bridge last night.

It was the 88th minute of the game and Reece James was obviously trolling his way to eat as much time as possible.

It probably doesn’t even register in Bielsa’s mind that something like ‘time-wasting’ can exist in football, check out a footage of the incident below –