Grumpy Sod: Thierry Henry Admonishes Chicharito For Having Gall To Celebrate Scoring 88th-Minute Winning Goal

Chris Wright

23rd, April 2015

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By Chris Wright

Pies would’ve thought you be hard pressed to find anyone who didn’t feel at least a flicker of joy watching Javier Hernandez celebrate like mad after scoring the 88th-minute winning goal in a Champions League quarter-final for Real Madrid last night.

After prodding home Cristiano Ronaldo’s cross, Chicharito – who was making the rarest of starts for Real – began welling up as he charged over to revel with the fans in the corner, eventually leaving the field in tears after being subbed off in injury time.

It seemed like a quite delightful display of overawed euphoria from a goalscorer who has been starved of his lifeblood this season, but there was at least one man who refused to get swept up in the hysteria.

Thierry Henry was not pleased with Hernandez’s celebrations. Not pleased at all.

The Sky Sports pundit’s major bone of contention was that Chicharito didn’t show enough gratitude to Cristiano Ronaldo, who jinked his way through the Atletico box before laying on the relatively simple tap-in for his strike partner.

“He had a couple of chances in the game before that but I can tell you he (Hernandez) can thank Ronaldo tonight,” Henry grumbled, stern as you like.

“I know he went on to celebrate alone and everything but he can thank Ronaldo. For me, he has to. That is, for me, Ronaldo’s goal.

“What I don’t like after is (he celebrated) like he won the World Cup. Turn around and celebrate with Ronaldo.”

Bloody hell. Who widdled on his chips?

Henry, of course, being an ex-striker who never celebrated any of his goals with a vainglorious tableaux of arrogance…

Why not just let Chicha have his moment? Ronaldo did all the heavy lifting, sure – but hasn’t he been splashed all over enough newspaper front pages these past few years?

What a strange thing to take issue with. Perhaps Henry was just positioning himself as being ornery for the sake of being ornery, well aware that his £4million-a-year Sky punditry hasn’t exactly been electrically insightful so far?

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  1. bob says:

    Shut up Henry, you bollock. How long has he been an ‘expert pundit’ for and I still have no idea what he’s trying to spout from one minute to the next. Hernandez -who barely gets half an hour of football a year and is 3rd choice everywhere he goes- scores a winner in a huge game right before the end and celebrates like he should. Still, I guess there was a few minutes left for someone to handball a goal if needs be and take their team through – but I can’t think of anyone who would do that…….

  2. Anonymous says:

    Henry, the same bloke who said his career would not have been possible without sky sports. What a chopper he is turning into

  3. Nuno says:

    LOL @bob
    According to this comments, then he should’ve celebrated that infamous Ireland goal with the ref, as that was all on him too

  4. Stef says:

    Chicharito gave an assist to Ronaldo last weekend against Malaga. Guess what. Ronaldo also didn’t celebrate with Chicharito…

  5. UEFA Respect says:

    @ Stef:

    Right, because if it wasn’t caught on camera, it never happened, right?

    Or perhaps you were in the stadium for the match?

  6. Puffy says:

    Spot on, Pies.

    I’ll always love and respect Henry, and I actually think he’s doing a decent job as a pundit (I liked his analysis of Coquelin’s job).

    But he was out of line on this one. Hernandez doesn’t play much and just qualified his team for the UCL semi Final against the arch-enemy !!! I think celebration is in order. That he celebrates with or without Ronaldo, I couldn’t give a single fuck.

    As you said Cristiano is already hogging the floodlights as it is.

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