Chloe Kelly

Why is removing your shirt in celebration a bookable offence? Here's the law explained. Soccer Football - Women's Euro 2022 - Final - England v Germany - ...

A more embarrassing example saw Manchester United’s Diego Forlan celebrate shirtless after scoring against Southampton back in 2002 – before the law came in. Kelly was given a yellow card for her troubles – not that she cared. Her celebration was also immediately iconic.

When Chloe Kelly whipped off her England shirt on Sunday having scored the eventual decider at the Euro 2022 final in front of another record crowd under ...

However, normalizing all their acts in the last ten minutes of a major final as something women can, and will do in football has the potential of being their biggest legacy. Imagine the horror of those in England’s FA who banned women from playing at their grounds for more than 50 years in 1921 if a time traveler carried a screen to show them the scenes that would unfold a century later. Imagine the horror of those who condemned Brandi Chastain at the turn of the century. Chastain’s move had a bit of personal history between her and the Chinese goalkeeper Gao Hong, who had “pysched her out” in a previous unsuccessful penalty earlier in the same year. At a ground referred to as the home of football in the country. And so when Beck introduced himself to her after years as the man who took that shot, Chastain erupted. Kelly’s celebration was at the very heart of a team displaying that they could play and express themselves whichever way they wished to. The same team that turned every page in the football book of dark arts to defend one. At the Euro 2022 final, Kelly and her teammates played their part in unravelling a few more perceptions. “The stadium was just exploding with lights, and sounds, and the team, the hugs, and the laughter. “She got in my head and as I approached the ball. It didn’t take the American Brandi Chastain long to connect the dots between 1999 and 2022.

The 24-year-old Londoner scored the winning goal against Germany in Sunday's Euro 2022 final.

She is a hard worker and gave everything she had to football - and she really has inspired us." "I would like to see the borough set up a scholarship scheme. "I thought 'my goodness that young person has got skills'.

England Lioness Chloe Kelly tore off her shirt to celebrate when she scored against Germany in the Euro 2022 final at Wembley.

Overnight, it became the defining image of a history-making moment in sport, triumphantly printed on the front and back pages of newspapers and shared across the internet. Social media, already ignited by a football match that spoke to a moment of change far bigger than its 120 minutes, exploded. When 24-year-old Lioness Chloe Kelly celebrated scoring England’s winning Euro goal by showing the world her sports bra, she sent a message of freedom around the globe.

After scoring her winning goal at last night's European Championship final, Kelly joined a long lineage of talented footballers who celebrate victory by ...

Kelly’s celebration showed a watching and perhaps unfamiliar public that the animalistic shirt-jettisoning they might have seen in the men’s game has as natural a place in the women’s game, irrespective of sports bras. A paper published in the journal PLOS ONE in 2020 puts it this way, getting Ronaldo bang to rights. Yet again, this is not one to imitate in a non-sporting workplace.) Philip Furley, an academic who has authored several papers on body language in football, points out that famous instances of post-goalscoring shirt-removal tend to occur when the goal has ended a period of extreme mental pressure. Describing footballers’ goal celebrations, Morris writes: “With their supporters roaring, dancing and clapping on the terraces, the Tribal Heroes celebrate their ‘kill’ in a frenzied outburst of abandoned leaping and embracing. Another common trigger for shirt removal, Dr Furley guesses, is the urge to show off one’s physique. This is a woman’s body – not for sex or show – just for the sheer joy of what she can do and the power and skill she has. Like Chastain, Ryan Giggs tore his shirt off after scoring a legendary winner; unlike Chastain, he was not cast in bronze, perhaps owing to the difficulty of capturing the baroque rug of hair that festooned his chest. In examining why it might have felt natural, we can turn to the ethologist Desmond Morris and his rivetingly patronising book The Soccer Tribe. Even in moments of extraordinary professional triumph, it is generally unacceptable to remove one’s shirt in the workplace. It holds the same status in the men’s game as the women’s, with the year 1999 an apparently vintage year for the practice. The moment was immortalised not only by what The New York Times called “the most iconic photograph ever taken of a female athlete”, but also by a statue cast 20 years later.