WYCOMBE WANDERERS hero Adebayo Akinfenwa was the toast of the city on Saturday - however not for really scoring a objective.
The 39-year-old EFL veteran delighted followers with a hilarious celebration after Wycombe snatched a dramatic level towards Sunderland within the 98th minute.
Joe Jacobson netted within the dying embers of the League One conflict, sending Adams Park into raptures.
His Wycombe team-mates all bundled onto him after he scored on the loss of life, with Akinfenwa prime of the pile.
However the man nicknamed'The Beast' could not resist a celebratory shimmy earlier than launching himself on prime of his elated team-mates.
The striker confirmed off spectacular dance strikes for an enormous man, however there was nothing swish about his emphatic dive onto the staff bundle.
Wycombe's official Twitter account posted the hilarious footage, to which Akinfenwa replied: "I don’t care when you're 9, 19, 29 or 39yrs outdated, as a lot as you'll be able to take pleasure in."
The League One assembly pitted third within the desk Wycombe towards second place Sunderland, in what was a doable promotion defining conflict.
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And it was Sunderland who thought they'd snatched it late on, as Ross Stewart's 93rd minute objective made it 3-2 to the guests.
There was a hefty quantity of stoppage time although after Corry Evans needed to be carried off on a stretcher following a horror head collision.
It meant there was time left for Wycombe to attain a dramatic equaliser, prompting Akinfenwa's hilarious celebration.
Sunderland took the lead in a topsy-turvy sport due to a David Stockdale personal objective, earlier than targets Anis Mehmeti and Sam Vokes made it 2-1 to Wycombe.
Stewart scored his first simply over 5 minutes earlier than the break, after which seemed to have gained it deep into second half stoppage time earlier than Jacobson's late leveller.
And regardless of not scoring, Akinfenwa confirmed he nonetheless has loads left within the tank at 39 years outdated - regardless of it being within the type of a superb celebration.
Akinfenwa confirmed final yr he was in talks with the WWE about presumably going into wrestling when he hangs up his boots, with this season anticipated to be his final as a participant.
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