But someone forgot to tell Bluewater Napier City Rovers striker Danny Wilson that as he found the net five times in his side's 7-0 thumping of Wainuiomata during their Chatham Cup victory in Napier yesterday.
Okay, so Wilson didn't have to emulate the feat of former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler who copped a five-figure fine in celebrating a penalty-kick goal against Everton when he got down to his hands and knees to snort the white chalk on the goal line near a post.
Taking one's shirt off can also prove to be a liability but for goodness' sake, Danny boy, race around the field, pump yer fist and charge towards the camera of Hawke's Bay Today photographer Paul Taylor like there's no tomorrow.
"Next time, tell Paul next time I'll go right up to him to celebrate," a jovial Wilson said yesterday with even his parents, Jill and Malcolm Wilson (announcer in the media booth), showing more emotion, albeit with a decorum of composure.
The bank officer from Taradale, who turns 30 next month, clarified he certainly was delighted to score the goals.
"I don't want to rub it in too much into the other team's faces because I knew there were more goals coming," Wilson said, preferring to keep his head down on the walk back to the centre circle of humility.
As a lanky player who found himself in defence in the Kinetic Electrical Hawke's Bay United equation in national summer league footy, Wilson felt he didn't have the bag of tricks that seasoned strikers possessed
"If I score in the Chatham Cup final I'll go absolutely mental."
Wilson's feat for the Central League defending champions against the lower-tier Wellington premier graders yesterday was one shy of the double hat-trick from Jarrod Smith in June 2010, in the 12-2 cup trouncing of Fed League side Manawatu Red Sox here.
That day Wilson settled for a hat-trick and former All White Smith still shares the record John Donovan set for Seatoun in a 1958 cup match.
Wilson is optimistic the Rovers will take yesterday's attacking brand of game into the league match against Wellington United this Sunday at Park Island, after their first victory at Bluewater Stadium this winter.
"Hopefully, we can do that in the Central League and have a good run in the Chatham Cup as well."
Having got his third goal, he found the appetite to soldier on as the hosts showed vision and flair to put the ball out wide to pepper Wainuiomata's 18m box with numerous crosses for goal opportunities.
"It's just the way we played by pushing numbers forward ... so we'll take today's momentum into training and if we play like that we can beat anyone."
Even leftback Aaron Jones played like a hungry midfielder but Josh Stevenson was the real deal in the engine room, providing two great crosses to Wilson in pangs of unselfish play.
To the policeman's frustration, he could not score when Wilson diplomatically became provider for the collective to savour from his sweetened chalice.
"He [Stevenson] tried but it wasn't meant to be for him today. It's good that everyone wants to score and they're full of energy," said Wilson, who is happy to do what his coaches ask, although he is mindful the joy of scoring is not one Beefeaters savour much.
Stevenson clipped the crossbar with a pile driver in the second half and put one in the net too, but the offside flag negated that.
He laughed at suggestions that Wilson should buy him a beer.
"Danny was in a much better position than me for those ones but I wish I had put one away, though. Next week."
Striker Andy Bevin drew first blood with a regulation finish in the 10th minute after a cross from captain Bill Robertson from the right flank of the box.
In the 27th minute, Wilson made it 2-0 from the left, top edge of the box with a crisp worm burner past goalkeeper Ralph Chenery.
It was Wilson in the 32nd minute after Stevenson's foraging run and the Stevenson-Wilson show rolled in the 39th minute in similar fashion.
A minute before halftime, Wilson scored his fourth goal from a penalty kick for a 5-0 buffer after Wainuiomata captain Scott Williamson hooked Bevin's leg inside the box.
In the 59th minute, Wilson took his tally to five for a 6-0 lead, again from a penalty kick after referee Andy Parker deemed a defender to have fouled a nippy Bevin.
It was 7-0 when Robertson tapped in a ball at the far post after substitute striker Sam Lawson's cross in the 80th minute.
Visiting coach Rob Bennett agreed wearing a giantkillers' tag, after beating Western Suburbs in round one, probably did them no favours.
"I'm still proud of the boys because they stuck in there until the last minute," Bennett said of a side who started with a hiss and roar but mutated into premiership material after 15 minutes, although forward Cameron Blake stood out.
"If it wasn't for our goalkeeper and centreback it could have been a hell of a lot more [goals]," he said, humbled but richer for having experienced Rovers' class and hospitality.
