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Why some fans were brushing their teeth and reading during Chelsea's Premier League win over Fulham

Todd Boehly has accrued a ten-digit personal wealth by having more good ideas than bad ones. But there have certainly been some missteps along the way. While negotiating a takeover of Security Benefit in 2010, Boehly arrived at his Kansas hotel in the middle of the night to find the establishment closed. The hotel over the road only had one room left which stank so much of smoke, Boehly took his duvet out to a park bench in the small hours of the morning. A decade and a half after shivering away in Topeka, Boehly appears to have been behind another baffling decision. Chelsea's workmanlike 1-0 Premier League victory over Fulham on Saturday lunchtime was pockmarked by some bizarre events in the stands. Seven men dressed in green velvet coats stole the focus by standing up to salute, pretending to read a book and brushing their teeth. Here's the explanation behind one of the Chelsea co-owner's more unorthodox schemes. What was going on at Stamford Bridge when Chelsea faced Ful