Neal Maupay reveals no regrets in copying Tottenham Hotspur star’s celebrations
Tottenham Hotspur had an exciting a game against Brentford about a month back and it brought them face to face against Bees striker Neal Maupay. Spurs beat Brentford 3-2 at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium on 31st January, 2024.
Neal Maupay opened the scoring for the visitors but the game soon turned it’s heads when Tottenham came out in the second half with a quick fire two goals from Destiny Udogie and Brennan Johnson. Richarlison soon made it three for Tottenham before Ivan Toney found one back.
While the ebbs and flows of the game were exciting, Neal Maupay took the headlines for his darts celebration which was taunt to the James Maddison’s celebration.
Neal Maupay & his sh*thousery
Neal Maupay has earned quite an reputation for claiming the headlines for his acts on the pitch beyond football. He loves winding up players and he did just that in the London derby at the end of January.
West Ham striker Antonio discussed how the French striker deliberately seeks to rile up the opponents in an episode of BBC’s Footballer’s Football Podcast. He came into limelight after the fight he had with Bernd Leno when he was still playing for Brighton. This has led the whole Arsenal fan base to hating him with all their beings, and looks like Tottenham fans will join in with the men in Red for once.
The dart throwing celebration ruffled a few feather on the Tottenham roster as well as among fans. A lot was exchanged in the game between the player and to say there was no love lost would be an understatement.
What did Neal Maupay say?
Neal Maupay sat down with SPORTbible and was assessing a few winding up moments in the Premier League when he discussed the dart celebration against Tottenham and how he had the whole fan base on strings:
“Believe it or not, that wasn’t planned. I scored and as I was running, I thought I’m going to throw a dart. He celebrates his goals like that, but apparently you’re not allowed to throw a dart, it’s only him that can do it. The way he got offended, it was quite funny. Big man [Ivan Toney] got away with it because he did it as well but everyone went for me. That’s class, I can’t lie. It would have been better if we had won. But at their place in front of their fans, got all their players raging, that’s goated. Just by throwing a dart I got 11 players on toast. It was so easy. It’s mad how easy it is, but I’m just having fun, for me it is fun. Football is a game and I’m trying to enjoy myself.”
Banter is part of the game and Maupay broke no rules with his antics. At the end of the day, what matters is the result and Tottenham certainly came out on top. While one can understand Maddison giving it back, we should not be getting so rattled. Last thing we need is for better teams to realise that they can throw us off by provoking us.
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Every plays have different tricks to get under the opponent’s nerves but what Maupay labels goated here it maybe a far too much. He should have the mettle to take it as well and Tottenham’s time would come to give him back. Surely soon.
