Were Diamanti and Ramsey booked for their celebrations?

[Southbank Old Boy]

It's a bookable offence to leave the pitch without consent hence why Church was correctly booked - his sending off was his own fault for getting booked whilst still on the bench. If the players weren't booked yesterday the ref will get a bollocking from his assessor.

Didn't that bit get proved incorrect during the Church booking outcry?

Law says not to leave the field of play to celebrate. Shit law, but there you go.

Really? Does it?

While it is permissible for a player to demonstrate his joy when a goal has been
scored, the celebration must not be excessive.
Reasonable celebrations are allowed, but the practice of choreographed
celebrations is not to be encouraged when it results in excessive time-wasting
and referees are instructed to intervene in such cases.

A player must be cautioned if:
• in the opinion of the referee, he makes gestures which are provocative,
derisory or infl ammatory
• he climbs on to a perimeter fence to celebrate a goal being scored
• he removes his shirt or covers his head with his shirt
• he covers his head or face with a mask or other similar item

Leaving the field of play to celebrate a goal is not a cautionable offence in itself
but it is essential that players return to the fi eld of play as soon as possible.
Referees are expected to act in a preventative manner and to exercise common
sense in dealing with the celebration of a goal.

I dont know what the ref booked him for yet so dont really know if he was right or wrong

[rhroyal]

How many yellow cards did Doyle get last season for celebrations? I remember him being on 4 and giving it a rest, before picking it up again against Sheff Wed because February had passed and they were all wiped. He didn't get many chances to after that. Think I just answered my own question.

[Dirk Gently]

I asked Dirk about the shirt taking off rule a while back and I'm pretty sure he said it's due to the expansion of the "global brand" of football into countries where bared torsos are taboo.

But its not a taboo in this country, surely?

Irrelevant - FIFA have stated many many times that they want one set of laws for the game, wherever it's played worldwide and at whatever level. Apart from FIFA-sanctioned experiments, they won't allow one country to have its own individual set of laws.

[Compo's Hat]

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Also, what i dont understand is why players get booked for taking their shirt off? - what is deemed so offensive about taking a shirt off to celebrate a goal?

regardless of the rights or wrongs of the rule it remains prolly the most straightforward and unequivocal ones to abide by and i cant understand or sympathise with players who continue to flout it.

True, i just see whats so bad about it?

Giggs' wonder goal against Arsenal a few years back was all the better for the shirt off celebration.

[Silver Fox]

Yeah, but he was wearing a wooly jumper underneath so it was OK

[TBM]

Say if a player has two shirts on (both the same) and he scores and takes one off - will he still get booked?

[1960]

When you've scored you can run around the pitch like a looney, you can swing on the crossbar, you can disappear under a mound of players, you can give Kingsley a good kicking. You don't get booked for any of these and they celebrate just as much as taking a shirt off.

Memo to stupid footballers: if you take your shirt off you will be booked. Choose another way of going beserk idiot.

And what is this stupid desire to take the shirt off anyway? It's obviously partly a fashion, but that's just saying 'I saw you take your shirt off and get booked so I'll take mine off and get booked.' Lame.