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Muted Celebrations: Football's Cardinal Sin (PICTURES)

Danny Graham And 21 Other Muted Celebrations (PICTURES)
Samuel Luckhurst
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SWANSEA, WALES - DECEMBER 09: Hull striker and former Swansea player Danny Graham (r) apologises to the Swansea fans after opening the scoring during the Barclays Premier league match between Swansea City and Hull City at the Liberty Stadium on December 9, 2013 in Swansea, Wales. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
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Danny Graham scored his first Premier League goal of the year, and first since 9 January, when he netted for Hull in the 1-1 draw at former club Swansea City on Monday night.

Graham, whose last professional goal was for the Swans, opted for a muted celebration perhaps because he'd forgotten how to react at putting the ball between the posts, rather than wide of them. It had been 11 months, after all.

However, his reaction continued the trend of footballers refusing to celebrate their goals. Shaun Wright-Phillips, played it down earlier this year when he struck QPR's winner at Chelsea, even though they effectively ruined his career and many fans had forgotten he'd even played for them.

Anyway, here's a collection of #mutedcelebrations.

Muted celebrations
"Thank you for ruining my career."(01 of22)
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"Sorry, I wanted to win something."(02 of22)
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"I tried to engineer a move umpteen times but I am really sorry."(03 of22)
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At least Bale cracked a smile(04 of22)
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"I actually can't remember how you react to scoring."(05 of22)
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"My brother's gonna get so much more s**t for this at school."(06 of22)
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The original - and acceptable - muted celebration(07 of22)
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"They're making it difficult for me not to enjoy this."(08 of22)
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"Apologies, but I just really wanted to move to Teeside."(09 of22)
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"You booed me in 2009, but we'll sweep that under the carpet."(10 of22)
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"I know what it feels like to let a goalkeeper score past you."(11 of22)
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"F**k, I actually scored this time..."(12 of22)
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"This lot actually thought I'd turn out to be better than Rooney..."(13 of22)
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"Thanks be to Pardew."(14 of22)
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You thought we had forgotten Sam Baldock...(15 of22)
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And Marvin Sordell?(16 of22)
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Trademark, for DImitar(17 of22)
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Chelsea fan. West Ham soul.(18 of22)
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"I'm sorry you got Juande Ramos, too."(19 of22)
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Praying for forgiveness(20 of22)
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Stephan El Shaarawy GESTURES(21 of22)
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"And you all forgot I started out at Sheffield."(22 of22)
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