In recent seasons, goal celebrations have become more and more colourful. Some player's take off their shirt, whilst others don masks that they have had hidden in their socks. On Tuesday night 18 year old Liverpool winger Ray Putterill converted a penalty in a reserve game against Middlesbrough, and then stunned the crowd, the opposition and his own team-mates by planting a big smacker on the lips of Boro full back Tony McMahon. TLW can exclusively reveal what prompted Razor's strange celebration.
Boro's defenders were furious at the decision to award a penalty for an unintentional handball against Johnathon Grounds, and McMahon in particular was especially riled up. As Putterill walked up to place the ball on the spot, McMahon followed him and was clearly giving it some verbals (see picture). The referee eventually had to step in and give McMahon a talking to. TLW can reveal that McMahon was actually making comments about Putterill's mum, trying to put the young scouser off his kick.
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That's not an easy task, just ask the thousands of mancs who were on the Stretford End for last season's FA Youth Cup Final. Putterill casually scored in front of them before cheekily placing his finger on his lips and telling them to Shhhhhhhh! So he was hardly going to be put off by a few verbals from some Boro player. He rolled the ball into the bottom corner before shrugging off the attempted congratulations of his team-mates and went straight up to McMahon, grabbed him by the back of the head, planted a kiss on his lips and said "give that to your mother from me". The Boro player was stunned and clearly didn't know what to do. His expression was priceless.
It might not quite be up there with Robbie snorting the goal-line, but it was certainly original and you've got to love that kind of attitude. Ray is reportedly wanted on loan by Crewe Alexandra, who he scored against for the reds in a pre-season friendly in July. Not sure if he kissed anyone after that, but they certainly seem keen to have him back at Gresty Road, so who knows!
