When Myles Lewis-Skelly found quiet and a storm in the meditation, a rabbit burrow opened to the football archives. These places can be an amazement: a treasure of lost treasures, forgotten stories and a reminder of how much the same remains along the ages, to the complaints.
I took one of those elements, dating from January 1975 and an previous kerfuffle on the subject of the goal celebrations. August's chances of the Soccer League were not a happy group. Not a bit.
Half a century later, grooves in their eyebrows are still preserved within an old Guardian report. The directive was clear: “Kissing and hugging should stop and players who continue to act in this way should be accused of taking the game to discredit.”
Severe things. But there was a problem: the kisses and hugs would simply not stop, so FIFA fell to cross even in 1981. His message was hit in a bulletin for national associations: 'exuberant outbreaks of several players to the once jumping at the same time. Above others, kissing and hugging, they must be expelled from the football field.
And that is the end, they expected. Unfortunately, FIFA did not reach beyond Blazers in this country, and if there is a point to do here, it is that times change, but football's commitment to DAFT arguments will never do so. Because as sure as the kisses follow the hugs, the herds of the game will always be scared by the cracking of small twigs.
This is how we are back in Lewis-Skelly and the advice wisely received in the offices per hour since he converted Haaland's Erling celebration in its owner last Saturday. The lot of the lotus had never generated such anxieties before.
Myles Lewis-Skelly found quiet and a storm in his meditation celebration last weekend
Jamie Carragher is one of the many experts who has had his opinion on Lewis-Skell's celebration
We could choose to send this debate in all kinds of addresses, to Gary Neville, Sam Allardyce, Alan McINally, Graeme Souness or Jamie Carragher. Everyone has had a voice for the experience of an elite wardrobe and know how these details can play in weeds.
But I am thinking predominantly a specific warning. The speaker was Tony Scholes, the Football Director of the Premier League, who was asked for his thoughts about this strange business.
“Some of the celebrations have been very fun, entertaining, but there is a line,” he told Sky Sports this week. “Once it crosses the mockery or criticism, we would have to deal with that.”
And then we sighs the cursed sigh.
It is the sigh of those who have seen officers of football laws at work. Witness how they used their lines to kill the moments after a goal due to VAR and now have an eye on the elements that still breathe.
Celebration Police have been labeled, and is a fair label in this regulated fun. Of sterilized fun. To have fun but only as long as it remains in the limits of our Petri plate.
And, of course, that has been a row of laughter.
Studying football laws is not less than 36 routes to a yellow card. As the best can understand those commandments, the two with the closest to the 'mockery and critic shape'.
Unliman Ndiaye was reserved last month to imitate a seagull after scoring against Brighton
Lewis-Skelly's celebration in 5-1 victory against Man City was full of unrevening without care
The latter is the well -intentioned principle that went to an absurd place last month, when Ndiaye of Everton was reserved to flutter like a seagull after scoring against Brighton. Clearly had fun and did not see the edge of the Petri plate until it fell.
But is not an unfortunate sign of what we are building? Shouldn't I respect the game include respecting the obvious? That is, this construction, this growing beast of so much seriousness, is still a game.
Continue along the way to eliminate the human element of football, its fun, does not serve anyone, unless those who find the bits of desertion quite entertaining.
I loved what Lewis-Skelly did. I loved the irreverence free of care. I loved the ego, the trust, the character show that is needed for an 18 -year -old to act on a grudge that kept a giant like Haaland. Just as I loved when Haaland ruled out his presence in September asking a question: “Who the hell are you?” -In the starting point of this mini drama.
Why is a competitive sport but an ecosystem and a food chain and the constant effort to change its place for the other type? Deference and submission should not enter it, but the collided of wills and emotions must.
That seems to go against the conditions that some of the old children want to impose young talents. Those ideas that say you have to strive by impossible, provided they are made within the limits of your lane.
But the best teenagers, so the tastes of Jude Bellingham or Wayne Rooney, to name two, have prospered with confidence and letting it work wild. Do you know your place? They knew it perfectly.
Lewis-Skelly is not in his group of talents, nor his ego, but he looks special, and a part of that comes from his internal sense that he belongs. It is his refusal to be pushed and if he wants to have fun at the expense of a great striker, he will.
The starting point for the Lewis-Skelly dispute with Erling Haaland arrived when the two parties found in September
Wayne Rooney knew his own place perfectly and prospered with confidence and letting him run wild
That is never a yellow card crime; It is an extra foot of height. Nor is a apocalypse, a symbol of moral degradation or a reason to design another appendix for the sacred book of football laws. It is a large part of the game.
We should all kiss and hug the Lawman that finally understands such a scandalous thought.
The survey shows that the Chelsea fan advises
Chelsea Supporters's Trust conducted a survey in which 68 percent of fans said they felt that their club is not doing enough to address ticket touts.
The spark for such consultations was the awkward discovery that Chelsea's co -owner, Todd Boehly, is director of a company resala of tickets based in the United States, Vivid Seats, which appears on a list of the Premier League of 'Sites unauthorized tickets' website.
From reading the site on Saturday morning, foreign visitors could buy tickets to not less than 17 Chelsea games between now and the end of the club's World Cup.
The cheapest for the next week against Brighton was £ 257 and the most expensive is £ 870, because this is the business of scaming and one that raises questions about Boehly's conflicts of interests.
It is a dirty aspect for him and a clean play for those who put light on him. As for the other 32 percent in the trust survey, we can only assume that they have never used the Fulham Broadway station in a day.
The co -owner of Chelsea, Todd Boehly, is director of the company of Estale Tickets, Vivid Seats, which appears on a list of the Premier League of 'Websites of unauthorized tickets'.
Golf fusion finally on the horizon
A fusion of golf dispute posters finally seems to be close after the White House got involved this week.
The assumption within the game is that the Department of Justice should be persuaded to reduce its weapons for long concerns that a collaboration between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, which Bankroll Liv, would violate the laws of United States competition.
If Donald Trump's maneuvers were the only viable response, professional golf should really evaluate how he conjured such an absurd questions.
The great unknown at this time is whether a sports gathering will recover fans who got bored of the greed parade and changed the channel, sending audience figures in a chinete. They could be beyond presidential interventions.