Leeds United trailed 1-0 for 84 minutes against Wolves on Saturday before Rodrigo scored a vital penalty kick in stoppage time to grab a point for his team. The Spanish striker couldn’t contain his excitement and took a page out of Jamie Vardy’s celebration book and attacked the corner flag.
Rodrigo Kicks Corner Flag Video
MADNESS! @LUFC tie it up off the penalty! #MyPLMorning | @PLinUSA pic.twitter.com/7RVCJMZ9ND
— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) October 23, 2021
The penalty was given after some sensational dribbling from 19-year-old Leeds youngster Joe Gelhardt.
The @LUFC teenager TORMENTING Wolves! #MyPLMorning pic.twitter.com/ZvSWOwB43H
— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) October 23, 2021
These ruthless attacks on corner flags have been a trend for the last year. Vardy makes a living off destroying the flags on the corners.
I mean he did the same just a week ago in uel, it’s simply Vardy thing lol pic.twitter.com/pNpqShbYQ1
— Cal (@Calcfcz) December 9, 2020
Jamie Vardy absolutely destroyed the corner flag celebrating his last-minute winner pic.twitter.com/R6TSPUaBTv
— B/R Football (@brfootball) December 6, 2020
The community for corner flags is surely appalled by Rodrigo’s violence towards his own flag. Those things don’t come cheap. Higher end corner flags can cost around $400. I’m no mathematician, but Rodrigo’s corner flag celebration might have just cost him 80 hot-n-ready pizzas from Little Caesars.
