It is one of the most fundamental joys of football, or even sport more broadly. And yet in the last 24 hours it has become the latest stick with which the government is beating Premier League players in the Covid-19 era.
Celebrating goals has been thrown into the limelight after MP Julian Knight, chairman of the Parliamentary Department of Culture Media and Sport Committee, accused Premier League footballers of being 'brainless' and 'negligent' for hugging and huddling together in big group celebrations.
DCMS committee member and Tottenham Hotspur fan Clive Efford even went as far as to call players 'absolutely disgusting' for 'flouting the rules' on social distancing.