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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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Norwegian centre-back Claus Lundekvam played 357 league matches for Southampton from 1996 to 2008, and after he was forced to retire at 34 because of a serious ankle injury he fell into depression. He started drinking and using cocaine and other drugs until he was arrested for drunk driving and domestic disturbance before a UK court ordered him into rehabilitation. Since last year he's moved back to norway to work as a pundit on tv, and he's brilliant and gets all sort of exclusive deals to visit old Southampton players (a lot of players have been at Southampton) and managers at their training grounds and it rules.
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Sep 28, 2011 14:18
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Bacon of the Sea posted: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. Incredible. The man should be given some sort of posthumous honour.
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Sep 28, 2011 14:33
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For the record, I believe Adrian Mutu still has yet to pay any of his fine to Chelsea because every time they win a court case against him he just appeals again to a different court. Twice at CAS, once at the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland (who knows why) and now reportedly at the European Court of Justice. He also reportedly has 14M in assets so would need to borrow substantially to pay the fine in full, especially now that it's accruing interest.
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Sep 28, 2011 14:53
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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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vyelkin posted:Twice at CAS, once at the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland (who knows why) UEFA and FIFA are both based in Switzerland, so in theory Swiss courts would have jurisdiction.
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Sep 28, 2011 15:11
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A Carlos Tevez Mutiny prediction thread would have been almost as amazing as The Owen Hargreaves injury thread. To add some more substance, can't really forget the always classy Marlon King. As the Telegraph eloquently put it he groped a girl than broke her nose after she said no. He was at Wigan at the time and had his contract terminated, served 18 months in jail, and he's now back playing football for Birmingham City. The guy has 14 prior arrests on top of being a registered sex offender.
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Sep 28, 2011 15:14
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Robin Friday sounds like he was a right oval office, but that Lawro story is hilarious
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Sep 28, 2011 16:58
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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?
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Sep 28, 2011 17:19
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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? It's apparently very good from what I've heard. Very funny and very tragic.
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Sep 28, 2011 17:20
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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? It's a must buy football book, yes.
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Sep 28, 2011 17:22
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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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POP FACT: Robin Friday was the inspiration behind Super Furry Animals hit 'The Man Don't Give A gently caress', which for years held the record for most swears in a single until it was pipped by 'gently caress The World' by Insane Clown Posse
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Sep 28, 2011 18:44
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Bit harsh on Bramble seeing as how he hasn't been charged with anything, both this time and the last time
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Sep 28, 2011 18:51
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vyelkin posted:For the record, I believe Adrian Mutu still has yet to pay any of his fine to Chelsea because every time they win a court case against him he just appeals again to a different court. Twice at CAS, once at the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland (who knows why) and now reportedly at the European Court of Justice. He also reportedly has 14M in assets so would need to borrow substantially to pay the fine in full, especially now that it's accruing interest. He'll never pay it. The enforcing body is FIFA, which pretty much means that Mutu is just kicking the can down the road for as long as he can until he has to retire. All they can ultimately do is ban him from football. He's already 32.
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Sep 28, 2011 19:25
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FullLeatherJacket posted:He'll never pay it. The enforcing body is FIFA, which pretty much means that Mutu is just kicking the can down the road for as long as he can until he has to retire. All they can ultimately do is ban him from football. He's already 32. Well, maybe. The thing is that while it was FIFA who decided the amount, it has been upheld by actual judicial bodies, namely CAS and the Swiss Supreme Court. I'm no lawyer so I don't know how contract disputes go, but that seems reasonably legit to me.
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Sep 28, 2011 21:12
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Note that Mutu was suspended last year while playing for Fiorentina for failing a drug test. Initially it was a year but it was reduced to six months. After that was over he was banned from the Romanian national team for drinking (I think) and then suspended by Fiorentina for not showing up to January training. They eventually let him play again after a month or so (they needed a striker!) but ended up letting him go to Cesena for a paltry sum or for free, Im not sure. Rest assured he's not done loving up his life yet.
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Sep 28, 2011 21:16
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Does Stan Collymore's dogging belong in this thread?
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Sep 29, 2011 00:56
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TyChan posted:Does Stan Collymore's dogging belong in this thread? No but him kicking Ulrika Jonsson in the head several times certainly qualifies him to be in this thread
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Sep 29, 2011 01:09
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Joey Barton is a good footballer who before the invention of twitter spent his evenings fighting and stubbing out cigars in people's eyes. It's up for debate whether this is an improvement.
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Sep 30, 2011 13:19
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What happened to whoever got a cigar in the eye from Barton? Did he go blind?
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Sep 30, 2011 14:02
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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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Record signing, too. Literally the most exciting thing that has ever happened to Lancaster City FC. Apart from somehow having the worst nickname (The Dolly Blues) and yet the best stadium name (Giant Axe) in the English football pyramid.
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Sep 30, 2011 17:02
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Notts County star striker Lee Hughes Literally Killed A Man and lost out of the golden years of his career. However despite eing 35 he plans to play for at least 3 more years and is fit enough to outrun championship-level defenders for 120 minutes. He also does a hilarious dance every time he scores called the "hughsey" which notts county fans are hilariously inept at recreating. here's some vids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0VKvF63aMg&t=30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYT2pSQb81s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOtqij-8Dga properly executed hughesy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zfbu_l6siA
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Sep 30, 2011 22:23
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Mark Bosnich is a pretty famous Australian player who hosed up his career through drugs and lots of money. He was probably the best keeper to come out of Australia and had a decent few years with Aston Villa in the 90's until he was signed to Manchester United in 99 as the replacement for Schmeichel. During his time at Villa he was most famous for giving a nazi salute to the Spurs fans. Probably not the smartest thing to do. Played one season at United as the regular until Barthez replaced him as first choice. Subsequently spent all his money snorting cocaine and after a couple of years of getting nowhere at Manchester United moved to Chelsea where he continued to snort all the coke and loving prostitutes whilst earning millions of dollars without having to play. Failed a drugs test and was banned for 9 months from football (then the longest ban for a footballer in England according to Wikipedia) Subsequently gave up and pretty much spent the next few years spending all his money and snorting a lot of cocaine and became Bankrupt in 2008. Eventually gave up the drugs and a few years ago had a short stint as a keeper in Australia and now works as a pundit/commentator on Fox Sports here in Australia. I rather like him now. I believe he was very good friends with Dwight Yorke and both enjoyed a good root with lots of ladies. Amazingly he only played 17 games for Australia in the 90's (although the national team was pretty useless back then) until getting replaced by Schwarzer.
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Oct 1, 2011 07:52
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Titus Bramble updates incoming:
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Oct 28, 2011 13:37
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Fists Up posted:Amazingly he only played 17 games for Australia in the 90's (although the national team was pretty useless back then) until getting replaced by Schwarzer. Wasn't that more because Europe-based Australians at that point in time refused to fly out and back for exciting qualifying matches against the Cook Islands and Vanuatu?
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Oct 28, 2011 13:50
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greazeball posted:Titus Bramble updates incoming: quote:Titus Bramble has been charged with two counts of sexual assault and urinating in a public place. Sounds like a hell of a night
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Oct 28, 2011 13:51
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GravityDaemon posted:Note that Mutu was suspended last year while playing for Fiorentina for failing a drug test. Initially it was a year but it was reduced to six months. After that was over he was banned from the Romanian national team for drinking (I think) and then suspended by Fiorentina for not showing up to January training. Mutu doesn't just fail drug tests. He also beat up a waiter while he was at Fiorentina because he didn't fancy paying the bill.
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Oct 28, 2011 13:59
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Lot 49 posted:Mutu doesn't just fail drug tests. He also beat up a waiter while he was at Fiorentina because he didn't fancy paying the bill. Haha, poo poo I forgot about that. What a psycho.
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Oct 28, 2011 15:26
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greazeball posted:Titus Bramble updates incoming: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/28/titus-bramble-faces-sexual-assault-charges on the plus side they dropped the drug possession charge!
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Oct 28, 2011 16:09
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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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The Sun website carried a story reporting on the Brighton leg of the Carnage UK Tour. Basically, it’s an event where Students buy the offical T-Shirt for £8, and by wearing this garment, they are granted free access to a number of bars and clubs in the city. The aim is to get totally shitfaced. There are a number of images contained in the report, showing disgracefully drunken humans. One of these turned out to be Liam Dickinson (a player that Brighton had bought for 250k earlier that season) who was pictured unwittingly carrying an inebriated girl out of a night club. He reported in sick for traning the next day. He was left out the squad and quickly moved on after that. He is also a poo poo footballer.  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2711538/Carnage-UK-hits-Brighton.html To be fair to him, it looks like he was helping the paramedic carry the heffer to an ambulance. Okay, not on par with the Lee "I killed a man" Hughes but amusing nonetheless.
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Oct 31, 2011 22:47
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Fists Up posted:Stuff about Bosnich I think he is finally off the white powder (As it's expensive as all hell in australia) His wife gave birth to a baby girl a couple of months and he is still on fox sports talking about the "old days" when he was playing for man u. (World cup football didn't excist in australia till 2006. I don't want to be reminded of what happened before that)
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Nov 6, 2011 13:39
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-15636061 Graham Stack, the man who compiled a DVD of his competitor in goal loving up in a pre-season friendly to try and win back his place in the side months later. His competitor had had a bad game in said friendly because it was his return from months of cancer treatment.
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Nov 8, 2011 16:11
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hibs...
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Nov 8, 2011 16:13
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Iggy Pop Barker posted:Graham Stack, the man who compiled a DVD of his competitor in goal loving up in a pre-season friendly to try and win back his place in the side months later. Pretty much going to need more info, possibly a citation, for this Barker.
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Nov 8, 2011 20:22
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Rankine Over Gash posted:Pretty much going to need more info, possibly a citation, for this Barker. I haven't got a citation beyond some of the better posters on PASOTI but we signed him to replace McCormick/challenge Larrieu, he started the season as our number one, and was playing incredibly well. Then he got dropped suddenly, for having a tantrum after a defeat and calling the club and players 'small time' etc in the dressing room. but none of us could understand why a couple of months on from that he was still dropped, training with the reserves, looking to be farmed out on loan etc, and all the ITKs on the forum were talking about him with more disgust than Luke McCormick who literally killed two children. Eventually the story came out that he'd compile the DVD of Larrieu making mistakes - and you have to understand that Larrieu was even then our longest serving player, club legend, 'off-field' captain etc. Stack was a man who got man of the match in over half the first team games he played for us, yet everybody was glad to see the back of the oval office
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Nov 8, 2011 20:43
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Absolutely superb. Thank you IPB.
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Marlon King also got into a scrap with Dean Windass at a casino, I think over a watch. How dare he try to deck Deano. All in all though, it's disgusting because he's a talented footballer that people look past his horrible attitude and record.
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