Football can draw out some pretty low emotional states.

Losing matches, seeing players leave the club, worrying about relegation - all making for some pretty awful days at the ground.

Yet it’s worth remembering that this game is fundamentally about joy.

Thankfully, new striker Tom Elliott helped remind us of that on Tuesday.

Some people say that goals make games. I don’t agree. I think goal celebrations make games.

Whether a player does - a merry jig, slide on their knees toward the corner flag, or even - gasp! - rip off their shirt - they capture the singular moments of joy that define football, on and off the pitch.

That goal celebrations are such a polarising topic among some fans shows how completely people forget the essential truth of football.

When gifted with such unrestrained displays of raw emotion, we should not insist on putting them back in restraints.

The joy of a goal: Paul Gascoigne celebrates his goal against Scotland during Euro 96

The 2-1 loss at home to Cambridge was disappointing, to be sure, but that’s not what I’m going to remember in five years.

You know what I will remember? Tom Elliott prancing around like the merriest velociraptor who ever lived.

The next time the sport starts to get you down, remember the lesson of Tom Elliott. Remember that football is, at its heart, about joy.

And then do the dinosaur dance.