IFAB

People always ask the question, " Why do footballers get yellow cards for shirt-off celebrations? It seems unreasonable that a player has just scored an amazing goal, and he wants to celebrate it with his fans by taking off his shirt but gets punished for that.  That makes no sense, but there are very serious reasons for the existence of that law that prohibits this kind of celebration in modern football. Liverpool forward Hugo Ekitike was a victim of that. He was already on a yellow card and received another yellow card for removing his shirt after scoring the winner…