Why ban goal celebrations?

Football is an emotional sport, as anyone who has ever had the misfortune of being in Glasgow on derby day will attest. When your team wins, or even just scores a goal, that emotion can be hard to contain. Players, on occasion, have been known to celebrate such occurrences; sometimes they even make physical contact with each other. And why not? 

The FA has announced that it will take a dim view such behaviour from now on, after criticism from politicians that some players have reprehensibly been breaching social distancing guidelines that the wider public have to follow. Never mind that these players, who spend the majority of their time in close proximity to each other anyway, are competing in empty stadia; they not only pose a transmission threat, but are also setting a bad example for the general public. Football may be suspended again unless celebrations are cut out. 

Which is just what you want to hear, isn’t it? That a game providing light entertainment for the thoroughly miserable, locked down masses is just too damn upbeat, and must be brought into line lest the positivity ooze through our television screens and gets us worked up.