Click on the photo to view the action. You’ll get value for money from this video. In 66 seconds, there’s a screamer of a free-kick, a goal celebration with a prop and a booking.
All right, so it was hard to see the booking. But the referee did show a yellow card to the goalscorer, Chipstead’s Daryl Coleman. His strike gave the Ryman League side a lifeline in their FA Cup qualifying tie against Torquay United. Chipstead trailed by one until the 87th minute when two quick goals by the Gulls saw them progress to the next round as 4-1 winners.
I watched a replay of a Premiership match today - Sunderland’s 2-1 victory at White Hart Lane from earlier this season. Kieran Richardson scored the first goal of the game and was promptly booked for taking his shirt off. Which got me thinking…
The post-goal striptease doesn’t always end in a yellow card. So just how far can you take a goal celebration without getting booked? This Francesco Totti penalty in the 2004 Rome derby is the most outrageous I can think of.
Boot the ball into the net; run to the corner flag; hop over the hoardings; hijack a TV camera; point it at the Roma fans and…no yellow card! Jammy so-and-so…
