17 most emotional Football celebrations ever

Celebrating goals is rapidly becoming a difficult part of the modern game. Whether it’s getting booked for taking off your shirt or celebrating with the crowd or potential huge political implications of an action you thought was actually harmless; it’s getting more and more difficult for footballers to enjoy the sacred moment as they wish.

Here we look at the moments in footballing history where players have decided the best approach is to let every single last ounce of emotion and passion out of their bodies. Here we look at some varied examples.

1. Imagine scoring your first goal in five years, you’d be pretty happy right? Imagine scoring your TEAM’S first goal in five years!

http://youtu.be/3b5adf2M0Zg

2. Wayne Rooney displays pure unbridled joy here. If anyone ever doubts his enjoyment of the game they should look at this photo.

3. Jimmy Glass!!

http://youtu.be/KejwqhLDeOs

4. A classic, Gerrard is so happy he trots over to the camera like a 1920?s panto character and smooches the camera.

http://youtu.be/cT8mo9ArkVs

5. What a video this is. Paolo Di Canio dances and weaves past Milan’s defence in 1994. The finish is superb, the celebration outrageous, the music divine.

http://youtu.be/QSzT1gDzb4c

6. The Italian stereotype is often unfairly projected onto footballers in the national team who are in incredibly tense situations. Here Tardelli expresses about 14 emotions at once to his full capacity here.

http://youtu.be/WRZ0cQUbpuc

7. Temuri Ketsbaia lets anger get the better of him as he decides the world needs to witness his pasty body as he smashes in an advertising hoarding.

http://youtu.be/JlqCCDh9XT0

8. More Italians (it wasn’t going to be 14 clips of Alan Shearer, let’s face it) and Tiziano “Ladbrokes” Crudelli goes postal after Pippo Inzaghi scores in his last ever game for AC Milan.

http://youtu.be/pLvuEWlwT4Y

9. “Cocaine is a hell of a drug” – Rick James

http://youtu.be/xfwFg7n92Ck

10. Forget about Fergie, forget about Bryan Kidd; it’s all about Steve Bruce here. He absolutely belts it away from the rest of the team to celebrate.

http://youtu.be/KkQiE3Ia7Rw

11. The run, the pointing, the complete lack of eye contact with anyone except the Inter fans stuck in the bird’s nest at Camp Nou, the complete shunning of Victor Valdes and most importantly, that suit.

http://youtu.be/rgX0StRq6zk

12. I’ve wondered at length exactly why Pearce screams so much in this celebration. I initially thought it was joy, then I considered vindication. Now I firmly believe it’s pure and utter hate; at the media, at the public, at himself, at anyone who watched the penalty miss in 1990.

http://youtu.be/E0OCRrvMBpA

13. Grosso and Del Piero show they have what it takes to be extras in Rigoletto and the commentary is just perfect.

http://youtu.be/YVznc0Qo0EI

14. Frank Lampard scores a penalty just six days after his mum dies to take Chelsea to the Champions League final.

http://youtu.be/XcQ88YNCUhQ

15. Controlled emotion this. Giggs obviously decides that running half the pitch wasn’t enough so he decides to dry off running back the rest of the way.

http://youtu.be/quI_LkMj4HI

16. If you were to look up “emotion” in a footballing dictionary, you’d find a picture of Antonio Cassano.

http://youtu.be/fe-M4YRwVbA

17. David Pleat is often maligned for his inability to pronounce word longer than “cheese” or “pitch” but he always makes interesting observations and here he is cantering across the field like a pony after Luton Town stay up against Man City. Lovely.

http://youtu.be/XyAUkaC6nsI