Celebrating a goal should be a joyful thing, but occasionally the controversy of football shirt – as men from Arsenal, Liverpool and Rangers have discovered.
Scoring a goal generates the strongest emotion in football. Life, some would claim. The enjoyment of the supporters, the impact on the game, the feeling of 'f*ck you'.
We have taken a look at some of the most memorable times that players have celebrated goals with the last in mind, from feeding political tensions to cursing with your own supporters.
After opening the score in a 3-2 victory over Merseyside-Rivalen Everton, Fowler responded to unfounded reports of drug use by falling on his knees and as if they sniff the line of the pitch markings.
He was already investigated by the FA for a constant dispute with Graeme Le Saux, and was banned from six games for both incidents but the celebration has fallen in the history of Premier League.
Although the old company Derby has never been a quiet night in the library, Cerny's celebration of Rangers' deceased winner in Parkhead in March 2025 was sufficient to cause controversy.
After Hamza Igamane scored the crucial goal, Rangers -Baas Barry Ferguson drove away in the celebration through the touchline.
Behind him, Cerny was seen who sprayed a water bottle in the direction of the home support – who reacted furiously, forcing the safety and the police to step into an attempt to calm the situation.
Afterwards, expert Tam McManus thinks that the visitors should have participated in the MADCAP scenes in the final phase.
“The Rangers -Bank has the right to celebrate a load -minute goal against Celtic in Parkhead,” said McManus. 'You are going to be happy.
“It would be the same if it was the other way at Ibrox and Celtic scored late to win a competition.”
After returning two months during a short but turbulent enchantment at West Brom, Anelka yielded a brace to open his account for the club in a match against West Ham in December.
He celebrated by performing a 'quenelle' gesture, which was made popular by his comedian friend Diudonne, who is supposedly an inverted Nazi greeting with a strong anti-Semitic meaning.
The French attacker was fined £ 80,000 and a ban of five games by the FA, before he was fired by West Brom for coarse misconduct, after he announced his intentions to leave the club on social media.
Grim.
“I was abused by people who sang my name six months ago,” explained Adebayor after racing the length of the field to celebrate a goal against former employers Arsenal for Manchester City.
“The abuse was for no reason. It was not my fault that I was leaving, it was Arsene who wanted to accept the offer for me.”
“They all clapped Kolo, but they shouted personal abuse at me before the game had even started. If you were to abuse a man on the street for more than an hour, he would respond and it would be a worse response than a target celebration.
“I would not stand there, listen to five thousand people who insulted my family when they had nothing to do with it. At that moment I had the feeling that I weighed 20 kilos when I had the feeling that I was weighing 2000 kilos before the game.”
Proponents reacted furiously and launched everything and everything in the direction of the attacker, who knelt for them with his arms widely spread at an iconic moment.
Gazza celebrated a goal in a huge old company Derby in Parkhead in Parkhead and managed to get the death threats of the IRA after playing an imaginary flute, a provocative symbol of loyalistic supremacy.
“The Celtic fans came hard for us and so I did the ship -thing … and then I received the letter from the IRA who threatened to kill us,” he explained in his autobiography.
“The police gave me something to look under my car for bombs and told me that I had to get the family the house in case someone shot through the windows.”
“I look back on the incident with the dental chair before Euro 96, and the way we were castiged by the media, and smiling,” Paul Ince told us. “It was ridiculous, but it brought us closer together.”
Before 1996, the Media Berzerk went after it was revealed that the team of England was led by Gazza in a bar in Hong Kong, a night in which he took himself in the chair of a dentist and poured spirits in his neck.
After scoring * that * goal against Scotland in the second match of the England tournament, fourth gas coigne in style, lying on the floor while teammates sprayed a drink in his mouth.
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Goals of Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri led Switzerland to a vital World Cup victory in Serbia in 2018, but the celebrations of the duo made the headlines while they paid tribute to their home country, Kosovo.
The State declared its independence of Serbia in 2008, but Serbs do not recognize this and the tensions between the two are still high.
Shaqiri and Xhaka both celebrated with the 'Albanian eagle' and were confronted with potential two-match bans for celebrating with a political message that they escaped with only a fine.
“To be honest, my opponents didn't interest me at all,” said Xhaka after the game. “It was for my people who always supported me. For those who don't neglect me, in my home country, where my parents' roots are. These were pure pure emotions.”
In the midst of much criticism from supporters of Ipswich, fourth McCarthy in a beautiful way when his side took the lead in the East Anglian Derby against Norwich.
McCarthy stormed out of his dugout and followed an aggressive fist pump with a brilliantly executed long “f*ck off” focused on the fans.
Luke McCormick cuts a controversial figure, and returns to the game after he was the prison for causing the death of two children while drinking.
The goalkeeper was imprisoned in 2008 and his friend Norris showed a handcuff gesture after scoring Ipswich in a victory over Blackpool – it was at the wedding of the midfielder where McCormick partyed for the crash.
Norris received a fine of an unprecedented amount by his club before giving a long apology on the club website.
Suarez was accused by Everton manager David Moyes of regular play-acting in competitions and only had one thing in his head when he scored in Goodison Park.
He ran to the Dugouts, where Moyes was stunned and threw himself on the floor with a beautifully executed salmon dive.
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Souness achieved the nickname 'Ulubatli Souness' after planting a Galatasaray flag in the center circle of archrival Fenerbahce, loved Turkish siege of Constantinople Hero Ulubalti Hasan.
It came when his side beat them to win the Turkish cup in 1996, and Souness is remembered as a legend for the incident – although not by supporters of Fenerbahce.
The brave action almost led to a riot among furious spectators after a tense derby, where Souness claimed that he was motivated after the vice-president of Fenerbahce had labeled him a “cripple” in the media after the frank operation of the Scot.
In 2014, Galatarasary fans fought the iconic moment.
In 1995 Tait scored in the final when Birmingham lifted the car -windscreen shield with victory against Carlisle in Wembley.
A huge fan of Birmingham himself, he lifted his shirt to reveal a T-shirt that 'sh*t on the villa' reads, clearly fans of the city furious. He received a fine of two weeks of wages by his club.
Aizlewood scored what the winner turned out to be in the midst of vocal criticism from Leeds supporters in a 2 match against Walsall division, while he was wearing the captain's bracelet.
After he founded the only goal of the game, Aizlewood swore in the direction of the home fans, before he was immediately replaced by manager Howard Wilkinson, the goal that his last touch of the ball ever proves in a Leeds shirt.
Bendtner celebrated a brace against Portugal on Euro 2012 by lifting his shirt to show a few “Lucky Pants” with the name Bookmaker Paddy Power.
FIFA and UEFA rules dictate that players are not allowed to display logos of sponsors at the final of major tournaments, and the former arsenal attacker was incredibly forbidden for one game and fined no less than £ 80,000.
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