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In the long run, not all these silly celebrations need to be stamped out
FANCY that? Emmanuel Adebayor can run after all.
Heck, the man can sprint. As fast as a greyhound, and with the same waggling tongue and demented eyes. His unexpected gallop after scoring for Man City was mindless, but let’s not get too incensed.
Every team has a player who throws a shush-it finger to the lips gesture once in a while. Look at Andrey Arshavin. He seems so obsessed with the shush-it that you wonder whether he thinks it’s an official part of the English language. Maybe he shoves a shush-it at waiters after a nice meal in a restaurant, to say “no words are necessary garcon, that was lovely”. Or reaches for a shush-it at the end of a gig: “no more music is needed, that was great”. The shush-it comes into its own on the football pitch. When someone does it to you, you hate it – but it’s great when it’s one of your boys milking the moment.
The same grudging acceptance applies to shrugging your shoulders to pretend puzzlement at your own brilliance, cupping your ear or, if we are really going to push it, sprinting the length of the field and sliding to your knees as if you are somehow as talented as Thierry Henry.
What fans shouldn’t have to stomach is seeing a player so caught up in his own importance that they stamp on another player.
Arsenal have a right to be annoyed about that one.
MANCHESTER United at home. A game that was to be the measure of how far my beloved team had come. And, although we’d had a great start to the season, there was an air of inevitability as I arrived at the Lane on Saturday.
That little voice inside kept reminding me that this was an opponent that had won six of the last eight played in N17. The other two results had been draws! But, oh how well it all started: Defoe scored an overhead screamer that United keeper Ben Foster could not have viewed on his iPod before the game.
Sadly, that’s as good as it got, even with the dismissal of the angry little redhead. Still, four wins out of five ain’t bad: and on the bright side, Emmanuel Adebayor returned to haunt our neighbours via a Manchester City team that look like genuine title contenders.
As someone who works with young people, I cannot condone his highly inflammable behaviour in front of the Arsenal fans. His actions lacked class. Footballers, no matter how much stick they take, should be role models. However, as a football fan who’s played the game and felt that passion, I can understand his actions. And the goal! The long run-up the pitch and a 9.9 for artistic interpretation on that slide. Priceless! |
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