Football team pays price for elaborate celebration

A Portuguese football team has paid the highest of prices for over-celebrating. 

Sporting Lisbon's B-team thought they had opened the scoring against their counterparts from Braga, with the goal-scorer Pedro Delgado sprinting off to the corner to celebrate in customary fashion. 

All was not as it seemed though, with match footage showing that the officials decided, after a lengthy delay, to disallow the goal for offside.

As the Sporting players quickly wrapped up their celebrations, the quick-thinking Braga goalkeeper quickly took the free kick to start a lightning-fast counter-attack.

The Sporting player's best efforts to get back and defend were to no avail as midfielder Xadas finished off the counter with a spectacular curling effort from outside the box.

Unsurprisingly, some of the Lisbon players surrounded the referee to protest and their frustrations would not have been appeased with a replay showing that the linesman never raised his flag.

Rubbing salt into Sporting's wound, the controversial decision proved crucial in the final result with Braga going on to win, 2-1.