Former Arsenal, Real Madrid and Liverpool striker Nicolas Anelka has attempted to clarify the reasons behind his use of the controversial 'quenelle' gesture as a goal celebration during his time at West Brom. When Anelka performed the quenelle to celebrate scoring a goal in December 2013, the gesture became an international news story and one of the most searched terms on Google. Anelka, at the time said his use of the 'quenelle' was a conscious and deliberate 'up yours' to the French establishment in support of friend and comedian Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala. But many still argue that it is an apolitical rejection of the state and Zionism, although he claims not to have been aware, at the...
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