1. Not Celebrating Against Your Old Team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpsiPClpdzg This will probably divide people, but what a load of bullsh*t. How about celebrating with your current fans, you know the ones who are currently paying a part of your wages? Not celebrating against your own team is now actually a celebration because so many people are doing it. When you score a goal the first thing you want to do is celebrate, but you stop yourself from doing it to get a polite applause off your former fans, yet all your teammates surround you and celebrate. Footballers should celebrate like they would for any other goal. Of course, they shouldn't take it over the top like Emanuel Adebayor did when he scored for Manchester City against Arsenal. Aaron Ramsey, Cristiano Ronaldo, Daniel Sturridge and Jonjo Shelvey are just a number of players who have not celebrated when scoring against the former club in recent seasons. The most recent was Frank Lampard scoring for Man City against former club Chelsea. He looked devastated that he had scored the equaliser in that game and put his hand up towards the Chelsea fans apologising, but deep down he would have wanted to celebrate with the City fans. What if they had an Aguero moment scoring in injury time to win the league, but it was against their former team, would they celebrate then or would they show respect to their old employees? With the amount of clubs players play for in the modern day there will be a time no one will celebrate out of respect for their former team because they would have played for everyone.
Paul Philbin
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