After Neymar became the latest player to be criticised for showboating, we take a look at other stars, including Cristiano Ronaldo and a former Orlando Pirates star who did it against Kaizer Chiefs, who received backlash for showing perhaps too much skill during a match.
Tired of reading? Click through the gallery above to see some players who were criticised for showboating in the past.
Neymar received a yellow card after having a heated argument with the match official who reprimanded him for a rainbow flick during Paris Saint-Germain's 5-0 win over Montpellier on Saturday.
Before Neymar, though, there were others. Raheem Sterling, for example, once got an on-pitch talking to from Pep Guardiola after using trickery in stoppage time during a 3-1 win over Manchester United. "He made some movements with the legs, we can avoid it," Guardiola said after the game, as quoted by talkSPORT.
On the contrary, Ronaldo was once backed by legendary United coach Sir Alex Ferguson after seemingly humiliating his opponents in a 2-0 win over AS Roma. "I'm not worried by what Roma are saying. It may be annoying to an opponent that Ronaldo is prepared to take the ball to them and show his talents, but you can't deny the boy's confidence and courage to do that and, as far as I'm concerned, he can keep on doing it," Ferguson said at the time, as per The Telegraph.
Remember Kerlon? He became famous for his "seal dribble", which would see him lift the ball up on his head and run while juggling it on his head. He won the U17 South American Championship with Brazil and even earned a move to Inter Milan. However, Jose Mourinho did not think he was good enough, and he quickly left the limelight.
More recently, Adam Lallana was slammed for using his tricks in a 1-1 draw with West Ham United a year ago. "In the first 20 minutes, he (Lallana) did more Cruyff turns than Johan Cruyff had done in his whole career," Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher said on Sky Sports.
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Meanwhile, in Africa, showboating seems to be more common than in Europe. Former Orlando Pirates forward Bernard Morrison recently made headlines after flexing his skills for Young Africans in Tanzania. However, his coach, Luc Eymael, did not seem impressed: "I told him I don't like showboating, they like that, but I told him I don't like that. If it was in Europe, you'd get a big tackle straight to him. If you go to Liverpool, is Mohamed Salah doing that? Is Sadio Mane, Lionel Messi doing that?" he told Kick Off.
Showboating, of course, has a deep history in Mzansi, where Fortune Makaringe was recently chastened by Pitso Mosimane for seemingly disrespecting Mamelodi Sundowns. However, Makaringe was not the first player to receive the ire of the Downs coach. Back in 2015, Mosimane also criticised Masibusane Zongo, who won the Man of the Match award after the final whistle, for showboating for Platinum Stars against the Brazilians.
In another famous incident, Thabo Rakhale toyed with then-Kaizer Chiefs defender Morgan Gould in a Soweto derby in 2016, which was later labelled a "wonderfully pointless display of nonsense" by the Daily Mirror, while Amakhosi's MultiChoice Diski Challenge team once received positive and negative feedback for their in-game "rondo" against Platinum Stars.
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