After Crewe's First Goal

The Crewe team celebrated on their Right side with all their team in their own half. This is something teams don't do as technically the rules state you can kick off as long as all players are back in their half. They don't have to be lined in position, just in their own half. I was surprised we didn't kick off quickly and exploit the massive space down the pitch while their 10 players celebrated. Im not sure if the ref would have allowed it, but thats the rules so no reason not to. We didn't seem to have the experience to realise this and also I'm not sure how it would have been perceived in terms of spirit of the game.

 

We did equalize fairly quickly though

 

I noticed that they didn't all pile on top of each other down by the corner flag like most seem to do. Drives me mad that and referees just allow teams to get away with it. Be nice if one referee took the initiative one day and booked all ten of them for timewasting. Might stop the idiots doing it. Barnsley are just as guilty by the way.

It's gamesmanship, especially when they walk as slowly as possible back to the half way line, making a point of walking across the centre circle to slow it down a bit more.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YxwPwiV4oIs

 

Isn't scoring a goal what it's all about

I love it when all the team celebrate . And I'd expect us to do the same when we Score

It will come to a point when players can't even celebrate




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Good on them. Should happen more often!

 

this explains what i meant

https://youtu.be/GrUDP3HrYxU

 

I'm not complaining about goal celebrations as such, just the excessive time that they take when the team that scores is in front.

It's gamesmanship, pure and simple. And if you disagree with that compare the celebrations when a team is winning to those when the team is behind. If the team is losing someone scoops the ball up and sprints back to the half way line. Where is the celebration in that? There isn't one - they just get on with the game.

See my point?

 

I see some points yes

But a team is hardly going to celebrate a goal when 4-0 down

Now if you score to go 1-0 up then I would expect a celebration and a longer celebration at that

Hasn't it been this way for years and years


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Er, no it hasn't! Players used to celebrate with a hand shake and a jog back to the half way line. Or the scorer would sprint round the back of the goal lapping up the applause and then carry on jogging to the half way line with slaps on the bag from his team mates.

This infantile knee sliding and piling on top of each other like a rugby scrum is a relatively new phenomenon. Blanket television coverage is probably to blame. They all see it and copy each other. Understandable I suppose given the mentality of your average footballer

 

I remember way back to the 60s & 70s. A player called Colin Bell who played in midfield for Man City & England. He scored 117 goals for City from 1966 - 1977. He hardly celebrated at all when he scored a goal. It was just a raised hand in the air and a trot back to his position ready for the restart.
I think Dennis Law, who played for Man Utd in the 60s had the same simple celebration.

 

That idea would never work. The players are programmed to wait until there are 10 opposition players in front of them before attempting to score a goal.

 

Never mind the players, one thing that that struck me yesterday after we equalised was how little the fans celebrated. I looked over to the Ponty and most people barely got out of their seat. Symtomatic of how disconnected we feel at the moment. Or was it because half of us were asleep?

 

My mate says that the rule should be that you can kick off as soon as you get the ball back to centre circle, if the opposition aren't back in their own half then tough!
Would certainly curtail excess celebrations.

 

I remember Huddersfield trying it the year we went up out of League 1. Ref didn't let them do it

 

Guys like Ronaldo pose when they score but most top players do a similar nothing celebration when they score. Probably because they expect to score every game, know the next goal won't be long in coming and because they score so often it's just another goal.

 

does'nt the ref hve to blow his whistle

to re-start the game ?

 

Re: does'nt the ref hve to blow his whistle

Kick-off

after a team scores a goal, the kick-off is taken by the other team.
all players must be in their own half of the field of play
the opponents of the team taking the kick-off are at least 9.15 m (10 yds) from the ball until it is in play
the ball must be stationary on the centre mark
the referee gives a signal
the ball is in play when it is kicked and moves forward
the kicker must not touch the ball again until it has touched another player

Read more at http://www.thefa.com/football-rules...start-and-restart-of-play#TM8GSAl4g9PLyioM.99

 

Too right celebrations are wrong. A firm handshake between the goal scorer and the assist provider is all that is needed. Supporters should stand and make lassoo style moves with scarves in the home colours of their preferred team, whilst shouting 'hurrah' no more than twice.

 

Wrinklies like me should shout 'Huzzah', as we did in the sepia coloured olden days.