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Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka Explains His ‘Handcuffs’ Goal Celebration Against MSK Zilina

By Chris Wright

Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka grabbed a brace of first-half goals in their routine 4-1  win over Slovakian side MSK Zilina in the Champions League last night, and celebrated the latter with a thinly-veiled ‘handcuffs’ jibe at the French Football Federation.

It seemed fairly obvious to me at the time, but apparently there was an air of mystery surrounding the cryptic gesture that Anelka has seen fit to clear up;

“It was just something for the French Federation about what happened at the World Cup. What happened in summer is in the past, now I’m 100% focused for Chelsea. I will never play for France again. It was just a joke about what happened. I’m not angry.”

Anelka was banned for 18 games by the FFF for his part in Les Bleu‘s World Cup meltdown this summer, but retired from international football before the verdict was officially passed.

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Posted in Champions League, Chelsea | 1 Comment »

By Chris on September 16th, 2010 in Champions League, Chelsea. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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One Response to “Chelsea’s Nicolas Anelka Explains His ‘Handcuffs’ Goal Celebration Against MSK Zilina”

  1. J says:
    September 16, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    We gotta give it to Anelka (and to Drogba as well) – How many players at his age will still perform like he did (and does generally) yesterday? Bearing in mind so many players at like 28 will be walking on the pitch. This is only possible by training hard every single day, I imagine.

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