What is Bellingham's 'Wolf' celebration about?

When Jude Bellingham scored England's opening extremity of Euro 2024 connected Sunday, he celebrated by dropping to 1 knee and covering his look pinch team-mate Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Real Madrid midfielder Bellingham, 20, headed successful Bukayo Saka's deflected transverse against Serbia, starring to his and Liverpool full-back Alexander-Arnold's peculiar celebration.

"When we play Wolf, 1 of nan unit [England squad photographer Eddie Keogh] ever holds his look erstwhile he doesn’t person a hint what’s going on," Bellingham explained to BBC Sport aft England's 1-0 victory.

"So that was a small group ceremony for nan Wolf crew."

But what is Wolf?

Wolf, aliases Werewolf, arsenic it is besides known, is simply a paper crippled that requires astatine slightest 7 players who will return connected roles specified arsenic 'villagers' and 'werewolves'.

The basal premise of nan crippled is for nan werewolves to effort and eat nan villagers without getting caught, and for nan villagers to effort to past - while catching nan werewolves successful nan act.

Wolf takes spot complete a bid of rounds and each information has 2 phases - time and night. The crippled starts during nan nighttime phase, pinch nan subordinate who is selected to beryllium moderator asking nan werewolves to take a victim.

There is besides a 'doctor', who is allowed to prevention 1 person, and a 'seer', who gets to make a conjecture arsenic to who they deliberation nan werewolf is.

During nan time phase, players talk who they deliberation nan werewolf is (deception is nan sanction of nan game, remember), and past a ballot is taken. The subordinate pinch nan astir votes is past killed and nan nighttime shape originates again.

Well, you would beryllium perfectly right.

The Traitors, which has been a ratings deed for nan BBC since it was first aired successful 2022, is simply a loose adjustment of Wolf, but alternatively of villagers and werewolves, nan 22 players successful this crippled are 'faithfuls' and 'traitors'.

And dissimilar Werewolf, wherever nan allocation of roles is done by nan random dealing of cards, nan traitors are hand-picked successful nan opening episode.

Oh, and there's besides nan mini matter of £120,000 to beryllium won successful nan TV version.

You tin watch nan first 2 bid of The Traitors on BBC iPlayer.