Mason Mount went viral on Wednesday after an image of the Chelsea midfielder apparently fixing his hair while the Blues were trying to score against Real Madrid emerged.The photo was shared by @clinicalkaion on Twitter, with Mount watching on as Romelu Lukaku attacked a cross.âMount is fixing his hair while a cross is put into the box,â the tweet read.More than 2,000 retweets later and suddenly, fans were on to something.
Mount's hair fixation
Type in âMount hairâ on Twitter and youâll see a wave of tweets highlighting the 23-year-oldâs habit.
âWhy doesnât Mason Mount just wear a headband instead of playing with his hair every 2 secondsâ¦,â one tweet reads.
Another says: âMason Mount I challenge you to go 3 seconds without touching your hair, level impossible!â
Thereâs now plenty more evidence of it happening, with one fan even creating a 16-second video of various instances of Mountâs hair flicks.
âCompletely obsessed with his hair,â an agitated fan wrote in response. âOur future captain is gonna wear our armband completely obsessed with fixing his hair while we lose control of games.
âAt least he looks pretty tho right. Cut this sh*t out!â
Mount was at it vs Real Madrid
A Twitter account called @MountOut10 that is unquestionably anti-Mount - the accountâs description reads: âWe will bring you facts, stats and videos exposing the biggest fraud in Chelsea historyâ - might have shared the most damning clip of all.
Itâs from the Real Madrid defeat, and Mount stops to sort his hair while action is being played out just yards in front of him.
Fans react
Why are fans upset?
Of course, nobody cares what Mount does if Chelsea are winning. And they have done for so long under Thomas Tuchel.
It becomes more of an issue among fans, though, after successive defeats to Brentford and Real Madrid.
Itâs something for them to get upset about, apparently as if itâs evidence that heâs more focused on his hair than actually trying to win.
Thatâs not true, of course, but in an age of social media, itâs the reality Mount has to deal with.