If you mastered the monocle, maybe you’re ready for finger glasses.
Dele Alli has taken his tricky goal celebration up a notch – by twisting his flexible fingers into a pair of glasses.
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The England star already had fans flummoxed trying to mimic his monocle salute, but his latest hand gesture seems to require double-jointed knuckles.
Alli posted a snap of his new celebration on Instagram, which involves him making one loop with his thumb and ring finger and another with his second and little finger.
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The Tottenham player was not the only one posting the gesture online as Twitter user Lexi Ceballos’ version has notched up almost 190,000 likes.
Hundreds of people have posted their version of the move – with varying degrees of success.
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One girl replied with her own version and the words “The only talent i’ll ever have”.
Andres Canales perfected his own left-handed version.
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Others were less successful – notably Alli’s team-mate Georges-Kevin N’Koudou.
The French player’s efforts were mocked online, but probably made a lot of people feel better about their own attempts.
SUNDERLAND, England (AP) — U.S. midfielder Tyler Adams scored one of the best goals in the Premier League this season when he lobbed the goalkeeper from nearly 50 yards (meters) for Bournemouth on Saturday.
In the 15th minute of the match at Sunderland, Adams collected a loose ball inside his own half, crossed the halfway line and sent in a shot from the edge of the center circle. It flew over the head of goalkeeper Robin Roefs, who tumbled into the net after scrambling backward, and into the goal at a rainy Stadium of Light.
Goalkeeper Tim Howard is the only player from the U.S. men's team who has scored from farther out in the Premier League, according to stats company Opta. That was in 2012, when Howard's clearance from his own area for Everton against Bolton bounced once and in.
Adams’ second goal in his last four games — he netted at Manchester City on Nov. 2 — increased Bournemouth's lead to 2-0 at the time. But Sunderland won 3-2.
Adams, who captained the Americans at the 2022 World Cup, hadn't previously scored for Bournemouth, which he joined in August 2023, or in his one other season in the Premier League — at Leeds in the 2022-23 campaign.
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Bournemouth's Tyler Adams celebrates scoring their side's second goal of the game during the Premier League match at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland on Saturday Nov. 29, 2025. (Steve Welsh/PA via AP)
FILE - Tyler Adams of the United States runs on the pitch during the World Cup group B soccer match between England and The United States, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, on Nov. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
