The A-Star Celebration

You might have noticed some players doing a silly celebration of late, making a sort of Village-People-ey "M" over their heads, but with their index fingers crossing. It's not just one player, there have been several, but due to the idiotic cows that some footballers tend to be, no one has really taken notice.

After all it's standard practise for some footballer to make up some weird celebration and then for the others to start copying it, they aren't the most inventive bunch in the world.

Well, I came across this article today from the Evening Standard, and it turns out that this new-fangled attempt to be cool by footballers is actually something a bit better than that.

What they are in fact attempting to do, is form an "A" over their heads, in support of a program called the "A Star Scheme" which aims to get young people off the street and help them to "be inspired by role models who do not glamourise crime, guns or drugs". Let's hope Rio Ferdinand doesn't lend his support then.

The A-Star website has full details about the projet, whose motto is "if you dream it, you can achieve it". It's co-founded by Wigan centre-half (One Size) Fitz Hall, who says that "This is a great chance for professional footballers to truly give something back". Other footballers involved in the project are Andy Johnson, Marcus Bent, Micah Richards and Emile Heskey

OK then. I leave with you Andrew Johnson looking silly.