Look, people have different ways of celebrating. Let it be.
I would 100% give be give the Stoke gremlins some jip after that. They'd been giving it stacks after seemingly getting a draw, so what if some want to give it back.
I'm in the FZ and after hugging those around me, I was giving them the rods. Not that any if them could see me. Who cares.
Yeah, sure, people have different ways of celebrating.
Just saying though, the City fans standing adjacent to the Stoke fans, giving all the V's, would STILL be standing adjacent to the Stoke fans, after the goal.
It's not like they had just 10 seconds to get their wanker signs in is it.
Commonsense, if you are that way inclined, I would think, would be to celebrate the goal, enjoy the emotion on all the Sky Blue faces, player and fan alike and then turn to the opposition fans to give them some abuse.
People can do what they want, but I do find it very odd behaviour myself.
I have only ever celebrated a goal, by sharing the emotion with the people around me and acknowledging the players celebrations.
And as I sidenote, any time the opposition score against us, I never, ever look toward the opposition's fans. I never want to see them celebrating and anyway, following a goal against us, I have always been so much more interested in our players' reactions and the reaction from our own dugout.