Quiz Questions – 1 – 10 best celebrations of goal scorers

1. Who chipped Lionel Perez and, with collar up and arms held and chest puffed, slowly turned three hindered and sixty degrees, soaking the veneration of the crowd?
2. Who simply ran away, with his arm in the air, an awful lot of times?
3. In 2009, who ran the length of the pitch and slid on his knees towards the fans of team who had recently sold him?
4. After an equaliser against Manchester City, who sat his teammates down in a circle at his feet and wagged his finger at them?
5. Which Fulham player would celebrate by pulling a Zorro mask from his shin pad?
6. After scoring a last minute winner for Newcastle in 1998, who ripped off his shirt, threw it into the crowd, tried and failed to take his boots off, and instead began kicking the advertising boards, pushing away Alesandro Pistone, who was trying to calm him down?
7. On the opening day of the 1994-95 season, which striker did a dive celebration after scoring a winning header against Sheffield Wednesday?
8. Who did a robot dance for his one hundredth Premier League goal?
9. Who, during a Merseyside derby, celebrated a goal by getting down on his knees and sniffing the penalty area line?
10. Who tore off his shirt to display a vest saying ‘179-just done it’ after only 178?
11. When Andy Cole signed for Manchester United from Newcastle, who went the other way?
12. Which player made a 125-mile trip from the Midlands to Loftus Road on transfer deadline day January 2013 in the hope of being signed by QPR, only to be refused entry into the stadium?
13. With which signing did Chelsea break the British transfer record in 2006?
14. What phrase, which might describe players such as Nawankwo Kanu, Zlatan Ibrahimović, and Jan Koller is translated into Spanish as ‘Toque encantador para un hombre grande’?
15. In 1996, Ali Dia signed for Southampton after their manager Graeme Souness was convinced that he was the cousin of which African player?

Quiz Answers

1. Eric Cantona
2. Alan Shearer
3. Emmanuel Adebayor. Having scored for Manchester City against Arsenal, whose fans had been jeering him all game. He was booked for his celebration, and later received a three match ban and a £25,000 fine.
4. Jimmy Bullard. At half time of the corresponding game the previous season, Hull were 4-0 down and their manager Phil Brown sat his players down on the pitch in front of the travelling fans and gave them a lecture.
5. Facundo Sava. Sava is a qualified social psychologist and wrote the book of ‘The Colours of Football’.
6. Temuri Ketsbaia. His captain had to get his shirt from the crowd so he could finish the game.
7. Jurgen Klinsmann, in a response to press coverage about the notion that he was quick to dive.
8. Crouch. He performed it first in celebration of completing a hat trick for England against Jamaica.
9. Robbie Fowler, in reaction to unfounded taunts from Everton fans that he had been taking drugs. Gerard Houllier unconvincingly claimed it was a grass eating reference relating to teammate Rigobert Song, but he got a fine and a four week ban.
10. Ian Wright
11. Keith Gillespie
12. Peter Odemwingie. The reverse deal, of Junior Hoilett from QRP to West Brom fell though, so Odewingie was left hanging. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain tweeted: “Does Odemwingie need a place to stay tonight?”.
13. Andriy Shevchenko
14. Lovely touch for a big man
15. George Weah