10 most legendary goal celebrations of all time

6. Robbie Fowler - A Message of Solidarity

Fowler gets a lot of stick for his most famous celebration - but this is the one that deserves to be remembered

Think Robbie Fowler and goal celebrations and the one image that will automatically float into your brain is that image of him bent over on the Anfield touchline - as if he were snorting a line of cocaine... but that's not the one we've gone for.

As good as a bird-flip as that one was, that's not the most important message he's conveyed on a football field. That honour goes to the celebration he whipped out after scoring in a Cup Winners Cup quarter-final against little-known Norwegian side Brann Bergen. After scoring his second goal of the game, he raised his shirts to show the message etched across his vest - "Support The 500 Sacked Dockers"... it was his way of highlighting the plight of 500 dockers locked out of their jobs by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company of Liverpool after a dispute over working conditions.

When we lambast footballers for being so out-of-touch with the real world, shouldn't we celebrate them when one of them does this:

Footballing officialdom being footballing officialdom, they naturally handed over a hefty fine to the Liverpudlian -

"I pulled down the T-shirt and ran over to all the photographers to have me picture taken," he later reminisced. "I got a stern warning from Uefa and fined about a grand, which was a disgrace when you think how justified the cause was."

Damn right, Robbie