He also said.. "it's ok to lose a game but it's how you lose that matters". Sums up why I am not happy. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I agree. I thought the way Drinkwater conducted himself was the best I'd seen from a former player. He celebrated with the Leicester fans when he scored, but came to the Barnsley stands at the end of the game to applaud and show he hadn't forgotten his time with us. IMHO, not celebrating doesn't show respect, it shows a lack of it. That's not the intention, but what it's actually saying is, "I don't think these supporters will be able to cope with me being happy after scoring for my new club. I don't think they're emotionally mature enough. I better not show my delight as the poor little lambs will get all offended and that." No I won't. You've moved on and so have I. Your job now is to score against us. Having played the game, I know the burst of emotion from scoring a goal and I know the need to express that. Go for it. All I ask is you don't act like t.wat. Celebrate with your own supporters, don't come over to us giving it large like a certain Isaiah Rankin, and everything will be fine.
What about respect for the fans of the club they're now playing for? I think Jay sums up the best way for a player to conduct themselves.
Its understandable in extreme cases. e.g Dennis Law. But people not celebrating against clubs they had a few months on loan at? just silly.
Celebrating a goal against a former cub is fine by me providing it's normal celebration in front of your own fans or on the field. As long as the player doesn't go out of his way to goad the opposing fans thats fine. It's all about respect is rubbish, if he really felt so bad about scoring then why do it in the first place...because it's is job and why not celebrate.
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No I'm not. If I'm right even half the time I'm doing well. If I'm owt at all that's any different then maybe I'm a bit more patient with the club and a bit less extreme with my opinions than some posters, but I haven't got a better hit rate of being right than anyone else. And even then there are those much more pragmatic than me. Actually, when it comes to predicting results and analysing players I get it wrong a good deal more often than most.
I don't think that's true. I really don't think that what it's saying. I can see where you're coming from. But not celebrating a goal - for me - is part of the ego driven culture of football. Every footballer in the premier league is a millionaire. Most strikers playing top flight football act like they're a special case. I genuinely think that most strikers think they're so special that they still matter to the clubs they've left. I'd say there are one or two special relationships where the play not celebrating was genuine - they didn't want to because they really didn't like scoring against their old club (Dennis Wise being the best case in point). For the rest it's just part of the 'how special am I?' pantomime. At the end of the day - it's a personal preference. If a player scores a goal, and he's delighted about it - he has every right to celebrate, no matter who he scored against. His mum could be playing in goal, but if he scores a screamer - fair play. I think a player being sincere is fair enough - better than the old fakey badge kissing rubbish, Wayne Rooney kissing the club badge and then five minutes later pretending that he's always wanted to play for Madrid so he can get another pay rise. I actually think that celebrations have got out of hand. It used to be a player would score a goal and stick his arm in the air, shake hands with team mates, jog it back to the centre spot. Now it's robot dancing, take your shirt off and get a yellow card, singing and dancing in the corner, everyone pile on top of the scorer etc etc. As with most sports - by comparison to this bloated over weight game that we watch - rugby, tennis, golf, cricket. If you put a football goal scorers celebration into the content of taking a wicket, getting a distance putt, or scoring a try - it would look absolutely ridiculous. Then you get the spiteful idiots that score a goal and instead of looking for their own fans they cup a hand to their ear and run past the away supporters to goad them, or stand in front of them posing (Nathan Blake was a sod for that, Beckham used to do it too - so many) - or if they used to play for them (Adebayor being a prime example) goes well out of their way to show that they enjoyed sticking one past their old employer - maybe a T-shirt message or something. It should be - player scores a goal - modest celebration, back to the centre spot. Used to play for the club you scored against? Give them an acknowledgement before the game to show a bit of respect - then get on with the game. It really would be great if football was played by grown-ups and not children. What a revolutionary step towards professional behaviour and conduct. Then we can start to work on the diving, cheating, casual racism, biting, rolling around like your career is over - a minute later running around like you're fine, asking for cards from the ref against other players...
