Iliman Ndiaye, Jose Mourinho, Paul Gascoigne – football’s strangest cards

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Iliman Ndiaye, Jose Mourinho, Paul Gascoigne – football’s strangest cards

Now we can add imitating a seagull to the list of things you can be booked for in the Premier League.

Iliman Ndiaye scored the only goal in Everton’s 1-0 win at Brighton and celebrated by flapping his arms like a gull in front of the home fans – whose team are nicknamed the Seagulls.

He was duly booked for excessive celebrating, leaving fans on social media confused about what exactly he had done wrong.

Law 12 in the IFAB Laws of the Game says: “Players can celebrate when a goal is scored, but the celebration must not be excessive; choreographed celebrations are not encouraged and must not cause excessive time wasting.

“Leaving the field of play to celebrate a goal is not a cautionable offence but players should return as soon as possible.

“A player must be cautioned, even if the goal is disallowed, for climbing on to a perimeter fence and/or approaching the spectators in a manner which causes safety and/or security issues, acting in a provocative, derisory or inflammatory way, covering the head or face with a mask or other similar item, removing the shirt or covering the head with the shirt.”

But the seagull imitation is far from the strangest thing to be shown a yellow or red card in football. BBC Sport looks at some of the others.

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