Arsenal celebrated widely when Reiss Nelson scored a late winner in their game against Bournemouth at the weekend and the FA is now looking into the celebrations.
The Gunners left it late to secure a 3-2 win as they keep their place at the top of the league table, five points above Manchester City.
Nelson came on in the second half and changed the game and when his late winner went in, players, substitutes and some coaches stormed the field in celebration.
It is an understandable act, considering how big that goal may prove to be at the end of the season, but Football London says the celebration is being looked into.
It claims referee Chris Kavanagh had it in his report and the FA will review the incident.
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That celebration was a wild one, but everybody understands our current position; it is almost inevitable that we will celebrate how we did.
But as soon as we left that pitch, we expected the boys to turn their attention towards winning the next game.
There will be tougher matches and we must avoid going two goals behind in another league game because we might not recover.
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Any body or organisation who feels the need to “look into” celebrations has not the first idea what football means to fans and to players. It would be a disgrace, were it to happen.
Without passion and celebrations, we might all as well take up embroidery(and give up football!!) as my missus has done for years.
I have never seen her feel the need to celebrate after finishing another of her masterpieces.
Jump up and down, go berserk and celebrate on the side line but the subs and coaching staff running half way across the pitch to celebrate with the team is wrong, albeit only 10 seconds before the final whistle. The authorities are quite rightly trying to stop fans encroaching onto the pitch (prime example being the idiot who slid into two Liverpool players and injured them) and our non playing staff should be setting an example.
Nelson didn’t go in the corner like players normally does. Had he done so all the sub and staff would have been off the pitch. This being literally the last action of the game. Ref could have blown for full time after the goal but he wanted to write his stupid report and actually made all the players take their position for a unnecessary restart.
Is FA investigating why we were not given at least out of all the handball incidents ? 1 or 2 incidents can be a coincidence but 4 isn’t. Also the fact that Bournemouth 1st goal should have been disallowed because their players were already in our half. Surely VAR could have easily checked it or did they ‘forget’ just like lee mason.
Has Kavanagh reported that his performance was abject and worthy of a demotion or even an inquiry to decide if they should be sacked as he is clearly a bad referee?
👍 Ackshay, typical of the killjoys at the FA, to not appreciate the good things in the game (as exhibited by clubs, players and fans) and fail to get their own house in order with regard to aspects under their control (like the standard of officiating and VAR).
What a farce!!
Next thing they will say that the decibel level at the stadiums is too high from the fans. They need to tone down celebrations.
You take out spontaneous celebration, you take out the essence of football and turn it into a robotic exercise.
Don’t the authorities understand what it means to the players, staff and supporters.
From what I could see the fans did not go on the pitch.
I suppose nobody cares about fans like us because of the TV money unlike in years gone by where the fans entry fees used to pay the wages of the players.
IGL, How sadly true!
PASSION and the result REALLY BEING OF VITAL IMPORTANCE are the reasons I DO NOT bother watching friendlies and non competitive matches.
Without real passion from fans, players. managers and all involved, football would be pointless and would die as a true sport.
Corporate entities understand only PROFIT AND CARE LITTLE FOR PASSION. SIGH!!
I don’t blame you for not watching friendlies. I don’t either.