Michail Antonio reveals the X-rated West Ham celebration he has planned

Michail Antonio reveals the X-rated West Ham celebration he has planned in the hope of joining an exclusive club in the near future.

The 31 year old forward has become a fan favourite not just for being such a good guy and his goals, but also for his hilarious goal celebrations whilst with the Hammers.

In the past few years, we’ve seen him pull out the worm move, made a Homer Simpson impression, do the Matrix, go all Gangnam style, do circles with a cardboard cut out, and even stroked the carpet around the London Stadium pitch.

Now the West Ham record Premier League goalscorer, who started life at West Ham as a makeshift right-back, is plotting to get back on the scoresheet again after failing to do so since netting the winner against Tottenham back in October.

Antonio wants to end his drought and with 52 goals in the bank, has his sights set on the next big milestone of joining the exclusive Premier League 100 club.

When he hits that target, he’s told the Footballer’s Football podcast that he has an X-rated West Ham celebration planned.

“It’s one of those things that as soon as you get one milestone you’ve got to always try and reach for the next,” Antonio said on the Footballer’s Football podcast on BBC Sounds.

“Getting (past) that 50 (mark) is unbelievable because obviously so many people play and don’t reach there, it’s a great achievement, especially for me (because) I started playing right-back.

“I’m now pushing for that 100 zone, I want to get that ton. Because why not? Why can’t I achieve it?

“If I got to 100 I’m taking all my clothes off – I’ll keep my slips on obviously, I don’t want to get arrested – I’m taking all my clothes off, I’m running around in my slips mate, I get to 100 I run around in my slips, 100 per cent, get that yellow card. Don’t matter what stage of the game it is, I’m doing it.”

Explaining his celebrations

He poked home ahead of Spurs superstar Harry Kane to give the Hammers another brilliant victory over their rivals.

On reenacting the ‘bullet time’ scene from 1999 film The Matrix, he tweeted: “Must be a glitch in the Matrix, I’m getting deja vu! Another big big win!!!!!”

He later explained the origin: “Well, last week I put a picture up on Instagram marked ‘AntoNEO’ and it went well to be fair so I thought ‘you know what I’m going to have to do it today!’

“When I was doing it I worried someone was going jump on me and I’d tear my ACL. Someone pulled me up before they jumped on me so it was decent.”

Antonio marked West Ham’s first match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium by scoring the winning goal, followed by a rather odd jumping and hip thrusting move.

He said: “There’s this guy on Instagram, Danrue, that does crazy dance moves.

“I saw it the other day and I’ve been busting it out in a couple of clubs so time to bring it out on the pitch. It lets me show my personality.”

When Antonio scored the winner against Sunderland, his celebration struck a chord with fans of cartoon favourite The Simpsons.

Antonio spun around on the floor, much like Homer when he won the battle of wills with Mr Burns to restore employees’ dental plan at the Springfield nuclear power plant.

Fair to say he was absolutely loving being able to pull this one off exactly how it was meant to, it could have gone embarrassingly wrong.

He scored twice in the final ten minutes of West Ham’s 4-1 win over Leicester in August.

After slamming in his first and West Ham’s third, Antonio danced with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of himself to recognise becoming the club’s top Premier League goalscorer.

That time he was inspired by Dirty Dancing, saying: “I wanted to be Baby!”

Explaining this celebration, he added: “Live on Sky Sports, I got distracted and said it was ‘Save the Last Dance’! Obviously with all the emotion of everything, I said the wrong movie!

“I wanted to be Baby [from Dirty Dancing] and I wanted to run to someone and for them to lift me up.

“94kg? I don’t really see it! Instead of getting someone to lift me up and make me Baby, I decided to lift myself up and treat myself as Baby, you know!”

Doing the Carlton went down a hit but that wasn’t actually what he had planned.

He said: “I completely forgot my celebration that I had planned.

“I had planned it so much and it was going to be the worm, but the emotion of scoring got to me and I ended up doing the Carlton Dance.”

West Ham’s Michail Antonio scored and broke out The Carlton 😂: https://t.co/P2uJFbZ8Cc pic.twitter.com/zqMGI6CIvY

— SB Nation (@SBNation) March 2, 2016

Now that Michail Antonio reveals the X-rated West Ham celebration he has planned, and seen all the ones he’s done so far, which would you still like to see him do? Was one of those that he done your favourite? Let us know via our socials!