{"id":677436,"date":"2026-05-17T21:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677436\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:58:23","slug":"michael-jackson-and-spider-man-premier-league-celebrations-take-a-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677436\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson and Spider-Man \u2013 Premier League celebrations take a turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Jackson and Spider-Man \u2013 two names that definitely weren&#8217;t on the Premier League bingo card on the penultimate weekend of the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/newcastle-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle United<\/a> striker William Osula and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a> midfielder Enzo le Fee, both made brief appearances in England&#8217;s top flight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having doubled the Magpies&#8217; lead in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cr4pwyzkpv2t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-1 win against West Ham<\/a> at St James&#8217; Park, Osula wheeled away in celebration before being thrown a white glove from the side of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Osula immediately put on the glove &#8211; which famously formed part of the King of Pop&#8217;s stage attire &#8211; before striking a number of Jackson&#8217;s many iconic poses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the Hill Dickinson Stadium earlier in the day, Le Fee wasn&#8217;t thrown a glove from the crowd, but a mask of the famous web-slinging superhero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old &#8211; who had put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a> ahead for the first time in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cwy2q9vrw6wt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eventual 3-1 victory<\/a> &#8211; also posed for the cameras after donning his mask, imitating Spider-Man&#8217;s iconic web-shooting hand gesture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Le Fee later told Match of the Day: &#8220;Since I was young, I&#8217;ve liked Spider-Man &#8211; my favourite hero with my little brother, so it&#8217;s a sign for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I should&#8217;ve done the celebration a long time ago but I didn&#8217;t score. I was happy to score in front of our fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a day when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/crystal-palace\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Palace<\/a> midfielder Adam Wharton stunned fans at the Gtech Community Stadium by marking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c9d3gzqv4dlt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his first Eagles goal<\/a> with a backflip, we look back at some of the Premier League&#8217;s most memorable celebrations\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson and Spider-Man \u2013 two names that definitely weren&#8217;t on the Premier League bingo card on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-677436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}