Over the years there have been some memorable goal celebrations which are remembered long after anyone can recall the goal itself.
Today, we hear that Betfair is offering Premiership footballers the chance to pocket £10k Christmas bonus for doing the ‘world’s first commercial goal celebration'.
Betfair is promoting TaiKai – a new football prediction game – and will give £10k to the first Premiership footballer who celebrates a goal with the dance which begins in the famous Karate Kid Crane pose, followed by a kick and then some Karate chops to spell out the T and K of TaiKai.
The company has already issued a step-by-step guide to every Premier League footballer, agent and club.
Among my personal favourites are Peter Crouch’s ‘Robot’, the Klinsmann dive, the Brazil ’94 team’s cradle rocking celebration and Francesco Totti taking over the television camera to film the fans celebrating his goal during the Roma/Lazio derby is a special one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6LaHVO1FJs
Some celebrations are dreadful. Sucking your thumb (Tevez and Robinho) or sssshing the opposing fans are two ways of looking a total numpty. And some have been just plain tasteless – Mark Bosnich's Nazi salute at Tottenham was despicable and earlier this month David Norris of Ipswich Town was fined for making a ‘handcuffs’ gesture apparently in support of ex-Plymouth keeper Luke McCormick - jailed following the deaths of two children while drink driving.
So which are the best and worst goal celebrations of all time?
