""I hope you're not going to call me 'Pleaty' going forward," Moyes said after the game. "The difference is Pleat doesn't get booked for it, they think it's OK and everybody enjoys seeing the celebrations. "We're killing it. The managers can't come out of their technical area to celebrate a goal, knee sliding, do things which give you people [the media] quite a bit to talk about.""
""Asked if he would do it again, Moyes replied: \"I bloody will do it again! \"Actually, if I'd been a bit more mobile, I might have done a knee slide. That would only have got me a yellow as well, so I might as well have gone the whole hog.""
David Moyes was booked for sprinting onto the pitch to celebrate Beto's 97th-minute equaliser, which salvaged a 1-1 draw at the Amex Stadium. Beto had come off the bench and scored on his 27th birthday. The yellow card followed for leaving the technical area under referee Chris Kavanagh's authority. Moyes compared the booking to David Pleat's unpunished celebrations in 1983 and criticised the rule restricting managers' on-pitch celebrations. Moyes vowed he would repeat such celebrations despite bookings. Enzo Maresca received a one-match touchline ban after a second yellow for leaving the technical area to celebrate, and Oliver Glasner feared suspension after briefly celebrating a semi-final win. Managers' celebrations can enter football folklore but often result in punishment.
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