Brighton rub salt into Tottenham wounds with brutal James Maddison jibe

James Maddison scored astatine Brighton connected Sunday aft Brennan Johnson’s opener but Tottenham someway collapsed to suffer 3-2 successful a baffling show connected the South Coast

Brighton got the past laughter against James Maddison aft mocking his darts solemnisation successful their comeback triumph against Tottenham.

The Tottenham playmaker doubled the pb for the North London broadside connected the South Coast aft Brennan Johnson’s opener. After uncovering the net, Maddison chose to observe successful trademark benignant arsenic helium picked retired a tv camera and threw a unreal dart.

But Spurs conspired to illness arsenic goals from Yankuba Minteh, Georginio Rutter and Danny Welbeck turned the crippled connected its head. The last whistle triggered chaotic celebrations astatine the Amex Stadium.

And the club’s DJ chose to get progressive successful the post-match antics. Planet Funk’s Chase The Sun, a tune usually played astatine the darts, was played implicit the club’s PA strategy aft the crippled successful what was an evident excavation astatine Maddison’s celebration.

The England antheral has been performing the determination erstwhile scoring a extremity since his clip astatine Leicester and antecedently explained wherefore helium chose to follow it. Speaking successful 2022, helium said: “The archetypal clip I did it was Newcastle distant and it was during the Worlds.

“It was precise overmuch a taxable of speech and maine and a fewer of the lads; Jamie Vardy, Luke Thomas and Harvey Barnes, we play darts each the time. Every distant travel we get the committee up erstwhile we’ve got clip to termination and we play. I’ve got a committee astatine location and I signifier each the time!”

Sunday's decision to Brighton is not the archetypal clip that the solemnisation has courted controversy. During a North London derby gully successful 2023, Bukayo Saka performed the determination aft netting a punishment and Maddison joked that helium would beryllium having stern words with his England colleague.

He said: "Me and Bukayo had a spot of banter and a spot of trash-talking, if you like, connected planetary duty. I got told that helium did the darts solemnisation - helium must've inactive been doing it erstwhile I turned him for the archetypal goal... I'll person a small connection with him, yeah."

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The darts-themed celebrations past got much attraction successful February this twelvemonth aft Spurs bushed Brentford 3-2. Bees striker Neal Maupay pretended to propulsion a dart aft opening the scoring.

Maddison past shared stern words with the Frenchman, portion Spurs got their ain backmost arsenic Brennan Johnson mocked Maupay with his ain solemnisation aft turning the crippled connected its head.

Speaking to TNT Sports aft the game, Maddison said: "He astir apt hasn't scored capable goals successful the past mates of years for his ain celebration, truthful helium astir apt had to transcript mine!"

Maupay past posted a brutal effect connected Instagram. He said: "Went a spot aboriginal with that 1 [the celebration]. Gutted we couldn't get the win. More goals and little relegations successful my vocation than James Maddison. We spell again Monday Bees."

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