Putting the oops in Hoops

"In association football, a goal celebration is the practice of celebrating the scoring of a goal."

Ah, where would we be without Wikipedia, eh? And if they ever get around to that odder phenomenon, the non-celebration of a goal, I would suggest they can make the definition even more pithy: “See Frank Lampard”, perhaps.

Although hardly the first or only player to decline to celebrate scoring against a former club — remember Denis Law for City against United, greybeards? — the high profile nature of the game meant that the veteran shipped an inordinate amount of flak for his solemn reaction following his equaliser for Manchester City against Chelsea.