The High Comedy of Improvisational Celebrations.

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Three things happen during this celebration which make it a frontrunner for football’s greatest ever goal celebration (provided you weigh chuckles over, say, the tears of Marco Tardelli):

i. Cruzeiro’s Roger steals and puts on the fox’s head.
ii. The mascot fights tooth and fox claw to keep the giant fluffy head. Then, upon relinquishing possession, falls to the floor clutching his (real) head like every player you’ve seen embellishing a foul for the referee’s sympathy. Only the referee doesn’t care and, technically, they’re on the same team. So he dove on his teammate.
iii. Roger, head now removed, is “waddled down” by a mini fox.

Simply based on this, all goal celebrations should be opened up into a judged competition. A three judge panel sits on the sidelines awaiting a goal with various points awarded for creativity, execution, flair and the triple salchow. Football would never be the same – and it’d never have been better.

Yet somehow, Roger’s celebration may still never fall second.

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