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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Nee-naw, nee-naw … stand back, it’s the Premier League celebration police

Arsenal captain Martin Ødegaard celebrates the win over Liverpool by grabbing a camera and taking a picture of club photographer Stuart Macfarlane
Arsenal captain Martin Ødegaard celebrates the win over Liverpool by grabbing a camera and taking a picture of club photographer Stuart Macfarlane. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

WAVE OF JUBILATION

Despite being among the rank and file of the “celebration police”, pundits who frown upon what they view as footballers prone to ostentatious revelry in the wellbeing generated by a difficult job well done don’t actually have powers of arrest. It’s a shame, because the sight of a stoney-faced Jamie Carragher ordering Martin Ødegaard to lay down Stuart the Arsenal photographer’s camera before cuffing the Arsenal captain’s hands behind his back, reading his rights and leading him off to a cell to sleep off his obvious jubilation would have added to the general hilarity of an already amusing Arsenal win over Liverpool.

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