Under-shirt messages are soooo last century

After scoring last night, Carlos Tevez lifted his shirt to reveal a birthday message to someone named Ariel. It’s a very sincere gesture in lieu of the more traditional birthday card, but does anyone actually do the novelty celebration anymore? His shirt scrawling and dummy sucking are all a little too reminiscent of Asprilla’s jersey on the goalpost, Fowler sniffing the touchline and Ian Wright whipping up his top to celebrate breaking the Arsenal goal scoring record.

And if you need anymore proof of Tevez’s appreciation of the decade gone by, check out his New Kids on the Block dance homage in an advert for the Cartoon Network: