This finger glasses goal celebration is everywhere. But can you actually do it?
This is witchcraft.
There’s a new craze sweeping the world and making us feel crushingly uncoordinated — finger glasses. If you’re not familiar with finger glasses, then watch the below, and prepare yourself to spend the next 15 minutes or so almost dislocating your fingers in a pointless pursuit to feel relevant. This is about sports, promise.
magic pic.twitter.com/At4b8Z0yhX
— lex (@lexi_ceballos) August 22, 2018
It all starts with Manchester United’s Jess Lingard ...
Lingard’s branding/merchandise manager appears to be the progenitor of the finger glasses from a series of messages he showed of him speaking with Lingard back in June.
Dele Alli made it a thing.
This idea caught on with one person in particular: Tottenham’s Dele Alli, who quickly took the hand gesture and turned it into his goal celebration. This exploded at the start of the Premier League season when Alli used the gesture, and it caught on and became a phenomenon.
Looking to take it to a new level, Alli posted a photo of his new celebration: Full-on finger glasses, and the #DeleAlliChallenge went viral.
What is this sourcery @dele_official ?
— Pro:Direct Soccer (@ProD_Soccer) August 22, 2018
♂️ pic.twitter.com/B3izQPCabF
The viral tweet ...
Lexi Ceballos’ tweet of the finger glasses went mega-viral, introducing the non-soccer world to Alli’s finger glasses. Now everyone is trying to play catch up.
Fred trying to do the #delechallenge has made my day pic.twitter.com/OyE3h5JoMt
— Brotein Sheikh (@_AmirNazar) August 15, 2018
she’s been trying to figure out how to do the finger glasses thing for five minutes lol pic.twitter.com/E07t693wE6
— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) August 27, 2018
@dele_official #DeleChallenge
— Jake kingsbury (@Jakekingsbury6) August 27, 2018
Quadruple pic.twitter.com/FyysBKNiOh
Hey @officialFPL can I get 100 points for this? #DeleChallenge pic.twitter.com/jExObtzbx3
— Bahaushe (@rabuwest) August 24, 2018
When you’ve had to virtually dislocate your fingers to do Dele Ali’s latest finger challenge pic.twitter.com/bjthgscDqg
— Mr David ❤️ (@zebradavid) August 23, 2018
And this dude has totally mastered it.
Stop playing with me. Y'all not ready pic.twitter.com/THfRN0ZuKn
— J. P-Nut Hunt (@noPjusNUT) August 22, 2018