Betfair hoping to join great goal celebrations

1715701 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:06:00 GMT

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?

Are Chelsea counting their chickens?

1715701 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:04:00 GMT

Player shirt sales are an incredibly important source of revenue for football clubs - so much so that it has been argued Real Madrid only bought David Beckham for his commercial value. The England footballer accounted for around half of the club's shirt sales during his time there.

But before you start flogging shirts at over £50 a pop to fans, it's best to make sure you've actually got the player among your ranks... A few years back a few silly sods bought themselves Manchester United shirts with the name Ronaldinho on the back - only for the Brazilian superstar to head for Barcelona.

This summer Chelsea FC have endlessly pursued Real Madrid forward Robinho with the two clubs trading claims and counter-claims regarding the player's future. However, if Chelsea's very own online megastore is to believed, is a done deal... (click the link and scroll down)

http://www.chelseamegastore.com/stores/chelsea/products/product_search.aspx?search

Let's just hope they're right...

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Betfair hoping to join great goal celebrations

Are Chelsea counting their chickens?