This is quite simply getting out of hand. According to Sky Sports, the Premier League will monitor player goal celebrations and may consider sanctions if they feel they are damaging the reputation of the game or could inflame opposition fans or players.

What on Earth is the world coming to? Let’s park the rather eerie Arsenal link for one second and take this at face value.

Iliman Ndiaye was booked for imitating a seagull when scoring for Everton against Brighton. Brilliant, loved it, very funny and who in their right mind is getting mad at a man flapping his arms like a bird after scoring?

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Next time someone scores against the Gunners, if they want to imitate a cannon (that might require some help from teammates but I’d love to see it) go for it. Who is it hurting? These are harmless, light-hearted bits of fun in a game which has seemingly lost touch with some of what made it such an enjoyable spectacle.

I would understand if what we were witnessing was a string of very inflammatory perhaps derogatory performances from players. But a man pretended to be a bird…

But this story, as published on Wednesday, February 5, has come out just days after Myles Lewis-Skelly celebrated his first Arsenal goal by copying the celebration of Erling Haaland.

It did not come out in the aftermath of Ndiaye’s show of appreciation for ornithology, which occurred more than ten days ago. It has come out in the wake of the Arsenal youngster’s apt response to the needle seen between the two sides earlier in the campaign where the aforementioned Norwegian striker in a face-off with the Hale End graduate was alleged to have muttered, “Who are you?” Or words to that effect.

In the most perfect way possible, Lewis-Skelly in an utter trouncing of Manchester City responded on the football pitch with a goal and celebration which purely copied Haaland’s pose. It’s not the first time we’ve seen it either, Kylian Mbappe and his then-PSG teammates did it after knocking Borussia Dortmund out of the UEFA Champions League.

Was much made of that? Barely a whisper.

All this does is further fuel the fire that Arsenal fans in particular feel there is an undercurrent that goes against them. Some of the decisions made, not just this season but in previous campaigns, have been very questionable.

Lewis-Skelly was only able to play against Man City after an independent panel overturned a three-match ban given to the 18-year-old after a red card brandished by Michael Oliver for what was certainly a classic cynical yellow card challenge. The same referee who sent off Leandro Trossard for kicking the ball away less than a second after his whistle was blown, moments after Jeremy Doku had too delayed a restart earlier on in the same game.

The same official who sent off Gabriel Martinelli for two yellow cards in the same phase of play. Something many had never seen before and none of us have seen since.

Arsenal have been punished in title races by VAR failing to spot blatant offsides which gifted the likes of Brentford an equaliser in the week before the Gunners would face title rivals Manchester City. Declan Rice sent off for a nudge of the ball, again an incident we have seen players go unpunished for time and time again since, be it Dominik Szoboszlai, Boubacar Kamara, Luis Diaz, the list goes on.

Jason Cundy has warned that Lewis-Skelly needs to be careful, when speaking on talkSPORT, making reference to Roy Keane’s career-affecting challenge on Alf-Inge Haaland.

"Just doing that... I'm not convinced it's the wisest thing to do because, you know, so long, plenty of years to come.

"You wait. You know, we saw what Roy Keane did to Haaland's dad. You know, just be careful what battles you pick."

For those reading that may have suddenly become slightly confused by the words of Cundy. No, we’re not speaking after Lewis-Skelly had anything to do with a major injury to Erling Haaland, we’re talking about him copying a goal celebration. To insinuate that someone would get so annoyed by a player doing such a thing that Lewis-Skelly could be subjected to something like we saw between Keane and Alf-Inge Haaland is… well words actually fail me here, none come to mind to accurately quantify the madness of such a statement.

The footballing world went mad a long time ago and some of the things we’re seeing will hardly surprise everyone. Yet what we have entered is seemingly a period where players like Lewis-Skelly, who scored in one of the biggest games of the season, from left-back against the champions is not lauded for his talent but instead the centre of a rethink of celebrations. What a sad, sad day for the sport.