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There have been many cases in football's archives of footballers great and grave going wonky.  A classic example could be made of Robin Friday, one time Reading and Cardiff legend, who was prone to drinking past kicking out time the night before games, was arrested on his transfer to Cardiff at the train station for bunking the train and quit the game aged 25. His final game saw him red carded for kicking Mark Lawrenson in the face, leaving the pitch, breaking into the Brighton and Hove dressing room and taking a poo poo in Lawrenson's kit bag. Reading manager Maurice Evans tried to get Robin out of retirement, phoning and saying "If you would just settle down for three or four years, you could play for England." Friday replied with the question "How old are you?", and after Evans answered, continued: "I'm half your age and I've lived twice your life." Not long after Robin was imprisoned for impersonating a police officer and confiscating people's drugs and died aged thirty eight of a heroin overdose in his council flat.  Adrian Mutu was purchased for £16m by Chelsea in August 2003, scored four goals in his first three games, argued with his manager about who had lied about his inability to take part in a World Cup Qualifier and was then received a nine month ban and a sacking from Chelsea after failing a drugs test for cocaine. Chelsea pursued Mutu for damages for breach of contract and were eventually awarded €17,173,990 in damages from Mutu. He has since gone on to rebuild his career in Italy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpG5UHZgCg Titus Bramble is a bad footballer. His name long held in disdain by Newcastle and Wigan fans who had to watch his inept performances while pondering aloud how this man was able to earn a living as a footballer. Weeks after his transfer to Sunderland in 2010 Titus and his brother were arrested on suspicion of rape following the allegations of a 19yo girl. Titus was later released without charge, but his brother was sent to prison for four and a half years. Fast forward 12 months though and Titus has once more been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and possession of a Class A drugs. He is also still a bad footballer. Please feel free to add your own examples and to discuss these and other players who have gone a bit wonky.
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Sep 28, 2011 14:05
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Completely forgot to put Tevez in the OP. I have no idea where that's going to go but I predict apologies all round, as otherwise it's waist deep in virgin legal territory, which I'm sure no one wants.
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Sep 28, 2011 15:04
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Taff posted:Ok I cant stop reading articles about Robin friday now, is the book about him - "The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story" any good? Really good book, worth every penny.
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Sep 28, 2011 17:25
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Starsnostars posted:What happened to whoever got a cigar in the eye from Barton? Did he go blind? Lancaster City F.C.are recorded as paying £6,000 to Droylsden for Jamie Tandy in July 2006. He got sold back for 'personal reasons' and is now a window cleaner who got in trouble for assaulting his gf (which he blamed on Joey) according to the mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253126/Footballer-Jamie-Tandy-walks-free-admitting-assaulting-girlfriend.html
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Sep 30, 2011 14:14
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In other news John Terry may or may not be a racist or said something racist but isn't a racist, it doesn't matter because he's back pedalled like a mother fucker after apologising to Anton and changed the story, magically spinning it so that Anton is now the bad guy. He did this because he's a oval office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WY-wSBrj0A http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15528032.stm John Barnes says some smart words about the matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1evF7y5QvV4
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Oct 31, 2011 21:21
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"I've seen that there's a lot of comments on the internet with regards to some video footage of me during the game. I'm disappointed that people have leapt to the wrong conclusions about the context of what I was seen to be saying to Anton Ferdinand. I would never say such a thing, and I'm saddened that people would think so." In a matter of hours we'll find out if the CPS also had trouble seeing Terry say black bastard.
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Dec 21, 2011 13:07
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'Arry is a bunghole
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Jan 24, 2012 13:28
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Ravel Morrison managed fourteen days at West Ham before getting charged by the FA for using homophobic language on twitter. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/feb/15/ravel-morrison-charged-homophobic-tweet?newsfeed=true Anyone know what kind of penalty he could be looking at?
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Feb 15, 2012 13:32
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More match fixing in Italy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/02/andrea-masiello-match-fixing-serie-a
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Apr 3, 2012 10:45
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Hoover Dam posted:Luke Rodgers: Not allowed to work in the US. All he did was get drunk and blow up a teenage girl's face with fireworks. And get drunk and have a big fat fight. And beat up a man in a car park. It's political correctness gone mad.
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Apr 4, 2012 21:02
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Bride punched, lobster thrown, doors kicked down http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...home-brawl.html
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Jun 12, 2012 08:08
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Sounds like a good round of prison for the lads
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Jan 22, 2013 14:07
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Apparently the Nile Ranger rape took part in a £50 a night hotel in Jesmond and he cussed out a group of students for being poor earlier in the night. *EDIT* also: 
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Jan 26, 2013 10:52
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As a follow up in Egypt http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/26/egypt-death-sentences-clashes-port-said 30 killed and 250 injured as rioting follows in wake of sentencing.
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Jan 27, 2013 00:49
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euroboy posted:The amount of money in sports gambling is mind boggling. There was a stat from the match fixing blurb about how one of the questionable games had £1.6m of suspect bets, but the largest bet was £60k. That's a lot of people in the know.
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Feb 15, 2013 08:55
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Mathieu Manset is one of the worst players I've ever seen in a Reading shirt. Picked up from Hereford on the cheap he mostly stood entirely still and was awful, totally out of his depth in the championship. Somehow we loaned him to Shanghai Shenhua where he scored a massive one goal during his time in China and was reported to show disdain for most of the team. He then moved on to FC Sion where he managed one goal in six months and was then sacked following a string of disciplinary issues and a ban for drinking in clubs into the early hours of the morning of game days. A player totally out of his depth who shows contempt for everyone around him and has no intention of not playing the little diva. He's now signed for Carlisle United, where you'd imagine him and his agent would be showing a little more humility now that they're almost back in league 2.  Nah.
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Mar 20, 2013 07:50
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Two players for the Lebanon international side are facing match fixing charges relating to a 1-0 loss to Qatar in January. Since then Qatar have pulled off surprise wins against Malaysia and Egypt. Seems to be one factor present in all of these shock results tbh.
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Mar 23, 2013 18:27
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Fat Guy Sexting posted:ex Celtic and MK Dons player Paul Slane took the international weekend off to go out on a bender that started in Glasgow, and ended up with him posting pictures of himself loving prostitutes in Amsterdam on twitter.  He's a proper ladies man
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Mar 24, 2013 20:51
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Had to check, but it's the same Fábio Bilica who told Baggio he was going to break his legs before a match and indeed did gently caress him up. Sounds like an awesome guy who any club would want away from their dressing room/team bus/car park.
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Jul 19, 2013 08:58
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Shef Weds striker Gary Madine jailed for 18 months for breaking one a nose and a jaw in two separate attacks in bars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-24398799
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Oct 4, 2013 12:33
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24939428 Nile Ranger has gone missing from Swindon Town and nobody is sure where he is. Nice to see Swindon managing to gently caress up in new and entertaining ways.
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Nov 14, 2013 18:24
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euroboy posted:I know players who play amateur football in the fourth and fifth tiers of the regional football leagues in norway that regularly receives messages from mystery profiles on facebook and twitter promising them money to lose matches, concede a lot of goals, get sent off etc. It's unbelievable that it's even possible to bet on matches from these leagues. Earlier this season more was bet on Welling vs Billericay Town than on the Barcelona champs league match the same night. Only 408 people attended the game. Some bookmakers haven't taken bets on Chelmsford, Billericay and AFC Hornchurch games since then. Apparently the total average betting for a 5th tier game in England is about £30k, but their games were going into several million. The people running the fixing must have known they'd only get a narrow window before they were found out, but I doubt they give a gently caress considering there's so many other games they can fix elsewhere for similar cash.
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Dec 3, 2013 01:16
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sircozzie posted:I meant entire results being fixed. Didn't the *cough* secret footballer say he knew of players doing similar things even now? The story about Nicky Shorey getting called up for England and distilling the entire experience down to "Yeah, it's great! They give you £30k just for your image rights" pretty much sums up how some footballers at the top feel about cash even when they're on stupid money.
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Dec 10, 2013 00:55
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In the same team that included characters such as Leroy Lita, Graham Stack, John Halls and Greg Halford.
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Dec 10, 2013 13:12
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blue footed boobie posted:Blackface is one of those things where almost no one who actually does it is trying to invoke memories of minstrel shows or actually be racist, but it's still basically guarantee to piss people off and generally not a good idea. I can't remember the last time I read about someone doing blackface to upset anyone, it's more or less always a case of someone doing it and not realising it's massively offensive to some people. You'd expect a Kick It Out ambassador to know better though. She'd certainly not turn up to the Kick It Out Halloween ball dressed as the ghost of Whitney Houston.
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Mar 6, 2014 09:01
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While Arsenal were battling to stay in the champs league, Nicklas Bendtner allegedly got really drunk and threatened to gently caress a taxi driver, then got out and tried to gently caress his taxi. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1991241-nicklas-bendtner-reportedly-in-drunken-fight-with-taxi-driver-during-arsenal-tie
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