Quote Originally Posted by millertop View Post
FA rules to which none of this happened

CELEBRATION OF A GOAL

Players can celebrate when a goal is scored, but the celebration must not be excessive; choreographed celebrations are not encouraged and must not cause excessive time-wasting.

Leaving the field of play to celebrate a goal is not a cautionable offence but players should return as soon as possible.

A player must be cautioned, even if the goal is disallowed, for:
climbing onto a perimeter fence and/or approaching the spectators in a manner which causes safety and/or security issues
gesturing or acting in a provocative, derisory or inflammatory way
covering the head or face with a mask or other similar item
removing the shirt or covering the head with the shirt
DELAYING THE RESTART OF PLAY

I think the problem is that we don’t actually know why he received a yellow card for that celebration, he probably doesn’t ****ing know himself why he gave it
In the ref's head it must have been 'approaching the spectators...' but can't see how safety was compromised! Or delaying the start of play, but again, hard to see how it was any different to loads of other celebrations. No doubt, Madley would think himself justified against either of these. I wish I'd had seen the Blackburn fella 'kicking the ball away' as not sure on the manner he did this