Football shirt gestures

The FA has decided not to take action after Liverpool players wore Free Michael Now T-shirts at Anfield. Photograph: Mike Egerton/Empics

Using a snazzy riff on a famous fashion brand's logo, Liverpool's Robbie Fowler reveals his support for the city's sacked dockers after scoring a goal in 1997. Uefa responded by fining him 2,000 Swiss francs Photograph: Allsport/Getty

During George Bush's trip to Buenos Aires for the Summit of the Americas in 2005, Diego Maradona shows his displeasure towards the US president. 'I'm proud as an Argentine to repudiate the presence of this human trash,' trumpeted Maradona Photograph: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters

Albeit not quite a shirt protest, this effort from Sasa Curcic at Crystal Palace in 1999 is worthy of note, as he demonstrates against Nato's bombing of his native Serbia Photograph: Empics/Press Association

Mohamed Aboutrika caused controversy earlier this year when playing for Egypt against Sudan, lifting his shirt upon scoring to reveal the message, 'Sympathize with Gaza'. Reports in Saudi Arabia later suggested that Israel pressured Google to discard all the images from its system, claims subsequently denied by the web behemoths Photograph: Getty

Kaka leaves fans in no doubt about who owns him, other than Milan of course, as he celebrates winning the Fifa Club World Cup final against Boca Juniors at the Yokohama stadium on December 16 2007 Photograph: Junko Kimura/Getty

Possibly inspired by Kaka, Everton's Steven Pienaar celebrates scoring against Tottenham with a declaration of support for the Almighty Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Getty

Paolo Di Canio is infamous for his footballing gestures. In 2004, when playing for Charlton, the Italian whipped off his shirt after scoring a penalty against Leicester to show a T-shirt saying: 'Honor to Fabrizio, true hero', seemingly a reference to Italian hostage Fabrizio Quattrocchi, who was killed in Iraq Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty