Was it hazardous ground? Was it wrong to do so? Was it really suffice for even our own fans to say that it was deeply inconsiderate and irrational behaviour?
How does one celebrate a goal nowadays without being booked?
To add depth and some might say more controversy to the story Scott Brown today added that his Old Firm celebration in Diouf’s face was the “best booking I’ve had in my life”.
This was not the most gracious of answers that Browny could have gave but If I got a booking for that celebration I would mock it as well, as it stank of bulls***.
Diouf and Brown clearly had words previously to his goal celebration, so the banter led to the run up of the captains celebration.
Banter happens at all levels of football. On a personal level I am a central defender and from personal experience banter, wisecracks and jibes between opponents are a key element of the game today.
Browny also informed:-
“It was all just a bit of banter as far as I was concerned. I’ve been wound up by loads of people on the park and I’ve done it to more than my fair share of opponents as well. It’s part of the game.”
We are in an era where in 
celebration circumstances a removal of a shirt is a yellow card and anybody celebrating too “erratically” is also booked.
But was Browns yellow card acceptable?
Personally I am unsure whether it was as it seemed like he did nothing at all wrong to incite any trouble.
- Brown did not jump any advertising boarding.
- Brown did not provoke the away fans by gesturing towards them directly.
- Brown did not enter the crowd in elation.
- What he did do was celebrate less than 2 ft in front of an opponent. Now I have studied the celebration through my own captured footage and Brown does not say any derogatory or insulting remarks, nor does he strike Diouf.
Was it an acceptable way to conduct duty? The referee thought not and immediately booked Browny. Bhoys fans views seem to be mixed on the matter a lot arguing that “A captain should lead by example and be controlled in celebrations.”
In my words I saw nothing wrong with his celebration. In other leagues I have seen worse things happen after goals have gone in with no cards even given. Was it a definate booking?
An example of a definate booking came by in the english premier league at the weekend, take note referees:-
In the thriller that was Newcastle versus Arsenal, Joey Barton exquisitely nestled a penalty past Gunners keeper Szczesny. The keeper then retrieved the ball from the net and purposely held onto it. The encroaching Barton and Kevin Nolan then proceeded to try and get the ball off the stubborn Szczesny, Nolan then roughly grabbed the ball and felled the keeper. This in the eyes of the rules is a definate booking which the referee gave.
Do referees need their memories jogging as a reminder to what constitutes a miscarriage of the rules and what is not?
Our club Captain Browny celebrates inside the boundary of the rules and yet he gets booked. Its not as if he pretended to play an instrument running in front of the home fans now, is it.
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(The flute player –Â http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/46264.stm )
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The bog-brush zebra haircut headed Diouf, like the belligerent philanthropist, humanitarian he is known for, decided to add more ‘salt’ to the ‘meal’ by saying “Who is Scott Brown anyway?”.
I imagine he knows the answer as his brainspan does not contain rhetoric?
I began to wonder if he actually remembered what team his team just played against.
This also gives evidence that he listens to sweet F*** all, even what his manager has to say which was probably “Kick the baw, dribble and if you don’t have the baw kick someone wearing green and white.”
Diouf talented with his feet he may be but with the vestibule of a hollow hole in his face that echoes dirt, I think his career after football may not be in politics or public after dinner speaking and the world would be automatically thrust into the total end of days, armageddon some might say if he decides that his latter days lie in educational school teaching.
As for now the “Banter” may it continue.
Brown has went from Zero to Hero in my eyes over the last month. Since Lennon has moved into the right hand side he has been a revelation. Hopefully he can keep it up and get his hands on the league title at the end of the season.
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I see Brown as our captain now. That goal was a captains goal, lead by example and take the game by the scruff, arguably he could have been inspired by those around him playing slickly (Kayal, Ledley et al) but none the less he is slowly matching the figure we paid for him in performance.
He can use his ‘attributes’ more on the right and let footballers play in the middle.
i don’t think it was a bookin, Brown turned round a Diouf was standing there by chance.
Also, Nolan did get booked for that incident, as did the keeper.
UPDATED – about nolan et al
Brown just turned around and Diouf was there in his face. It just happened yet Brown gets instantly reprimanded for that?
I think it stinks that Brown was carded for celebrating in the laws of the game.
brown knew fine well that diouf could not respond to his taunt due to the unprecendented media surrounding him. and so did lennnon. so they tried to wind him up to make him react.
only cowards would do such a thing knowing that he was being scrutinized by the media, the sfa, refs, etc etc… and could not react.
normally a player who did what brown did would be on the deck.
and if celtic are ahead by more than a few points by the last old firm game, then diouf, playing on loan with a salary rangers can never afford, will indeed deck brown.
you might be a centre half mate but you’d be in stobhill hospital doing that in a springburn public park – no catholic or prodestant would put up with it. diouf wouldn’t either but he was hancuffed. and that’s why brown’s a coward
I think in the aftermath of this ‘storm in a tea cup’ proves what Diouf game was.
He has found a willing press who will print his every whim and moan. He saw ‘not reacting’ as a perfect angle to gain more sympathy.
Problem is, I don’t think he would have expected the mocking response, from both Broon and Lennon, that proves that his initial story has more holes in it then a Tommy Sheridan defence.
Plus we are now seeing a paper war in which the Day Late Ranger is firmly in Celtic’s camp.
World gone mad.
You sound like you’ve been mentally assessed at Stobhill Hospital for possibly an act you commited in Springburn Park at night.
Brown is no coward. What is cowardly is the neverending acts of GBH the gers get away with in every old firm match.
The things they do wouldn’t look out of place in Glasgow city centre when the nightclubs are letting out on Saturday night.
If Brown is the cowardly one for his “Unprecedented” act in Dioufs face, tell poor QPR and Scotlands Jamie Mackie who was subjected to an evil torrent of hellish language from your standing “martyr and saint” Diouf, when Mackie lay on the ground clutching his broken leg.
Now question who is the coward?
Don’t you know that MacKie deserved it as he once broke another players leg while playing for Plymouth Argyle?
Get on the page, Timmy!
Aye mackie deserves a leg break like diouf deserves that haircut 😀
@Lordofthewing – I’m a Plymouth Argyle fan, and I can’t recall Mackie ever breaking another players leg whilst with us (then again I don’t remember him being a prolific goalscorer either, instead choosing the “headless chicken run to the corner flag” option above “working the keeper”)
Can you refresh my memory as to who this involved?
It’s not me that has been saying it. R@ngers fans have spouting it as fact when defending joof.
mackie broke ridegewell’s leg.
the BBC are also spouting it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/birmingham_city/7997165.stm
quote:
“Central defender Liam Ridgewell has undergone an operation on the broken leg he suffered in Birmingham’s 1-1 draw with Plymouth on Easter Monday.
The 24-year-old will miss the the end of the season after being injured in a challenge with Argyle striker Jamie Mackie midway through the first half.”
Hardly vilifying him is it?
Brown did nothing wrong. The booking should be looked at and revoked.
As for player winding each other up, it happens all the time. Players even do it to the fans.
I remember Alla Mc scoring against celtic at parkhead many years ago, he score at the rangers end, then ran along the length of the side line next to the jungle his hand held to his chest giving us the finger. At the time we were all shouting at him but at the end of day it was funny and I still think it was funny and if I ever meet him , I will remind him but would still buy him a pint.
I found Broonies celebration both cringeworthy and hilarious at the sametime.
I’m strange that way.
Browns booking was a travesty. Same as Gazzas was when he yellow carded the ref. Players go on the wind up all the time, Gazzas flute playing and the holy goalie stuff. The outrage of the fans at both these incidents made me laugh. The fans spend 90 minutes shouting the most foul abuse at players, spit on them, throw coins and make offensive and insulting gestures. Then a player does something and these same fans go screaming to the press, s.f.a. the police, stewards and anybody else they find about how offended they were and how they were almost provoked into rioting. And its not just the Old Firm. Accies fans showering Hamilton boy Davie Cooper in spit at the corner flag, Cooper sticks 2 fingers up behind his back at them and these poor offended angels immediately complained to the 2 cops standing 10 feet away who saw it all.(I was one of them). They got two words, the second of which was “off”. They had the neck to complain to senior officers. I’ve been covered in spit by fans of all stripes and seen behaviour that has no place in society yet the fans are the first to complain. They need to get real.
Fair point but would you have booked brown in the midst of a high heated and tenaciously fierce atmosphere of an old firm match? I thought the ref did pretty well but did the nerves get to him when he saw Brown celebrate?
The mockrage is the funniest thing. People as so precious.
I definitely would not have booked Brown. I thought the ref had a great game but his performance was marred by the booking. I think the refs get caught sometimes between common-sense and the one size fits all edicts that the SFA come away with. Instead of a word to the wise he decided to go for the party line, if in doubt book them.