Could Any City Players Make This List?

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h Observer Woman The Observer Magazine Food       Search The Observer         Search executive jobsSearch all jobs   The 10 worst examples of footballers behaving badly Pete May Sunday 4 November 2001 Observer Sport Monthly    1 Frank Worthington (1972) Vital ingredients Swedish girls, a move to Liverpool, an excess of sexual activity The Seventies were football's Sixties - an era of promiscuous abandon - but even in those days Frank Worthington was a special talent. A notorious womaniser, the breakdown of his move to Liverpool in 1972 is one of the game's enduring urban legends. Having all but signed, the deal fell through because he failed a medical. The rumour was that he had a dose of the clap. In fact he had high blood pressure - but that was brought on by excessive sexual activity. Bill Shankly told him to have a break, and return for a second medical. Worthington went to Majorca, continued his lifestyle... and failed the medical again.  2 Peter Shilton (1980) Vital ingredients Booze, infidelity in a quiet country lane Shilton was arrested for drink-driving after being found at 5am in a country lane with a woman called Tina in his car. When Tina's husband Colin arrived he said the pair were partially clothed. Shilton hurriedly drove away and crashed into a lamppost. He admitted 'taking a lady for a meal' and was fined £350 and banned from driving for 15 months. He then had to endure countless terrace chants of 'Shilton, Shilton, where's your wife?' 3 Peter Beagrie (1991) Vital ingredients Booze, a motorcycle, a plate glass window While on Everton's 1991 pre-season tour of Spain, Beagrie went on a boozy night out following a game with Real Sociedad. In the early hours he flagged down a Spanish motorcyclist who gave him a lift home. Upon arriving at his hotel he couldn't wake the night porter, so Beagrie commandeered the bemused Spaniard's bike, rode it up the hotel steps and straight through a plate glass window. Only it was the wrong hotel. Beagrie required 50 stitches. 4 Don Hutchison (1996) Vital ingredients Booze, a Budweiser label, a bad tackle While on holiday in Ayia Napa in 1994, an inebriated Hutchison hid his wedding tackle behind a Budweiser label. When a bystander's snaps appeared in the tabloids, his manager at Liverpool Roy Evans declared: 'If Hutchison is flashing his **** again that's out of order.' Hutchison had form. A year earlier he had spotted female students videoing their graduation celebrations in a wine bar, unzipped his flies and announced, 'Zoom in on this!' After the Ayia Napa incident he was fined £5,000, dropped, transfer-listed - and eventually shipped off to West Ham (where he was known to fans and team-mates as 'Budweiser'). 5 George Best(1970) Vital ingredients Football's best-known stud, an impending FA Cup semi-final In terms of attracting women, Best even put Frank Worthington in the shade. His most notorious moment came when he was caught in flagrante delicto by his manager Wilf McGuinness at the team's hotel on the afternoon of Man Utd's FA Cup semi-final against Leeds in 1970. Best had chatted up the woman on the hotel's stairs. McGuinness wanted to send him home, and only the intervention of Sir Matt Busby enabled Best to play. 'He had an absolute nightmare,' McGuinness recalled. 'We drew 0-0 again, and George had the chance to win it, but fell over the ball in front of goal.' 6 Alan Shearer (1997) Vital ingredients Booze, a national hero, Keith Gillespie sprawled on the ground Newcastle's players went out on the town during a break in Dublin in 1997, a frolic that culminated in Phillipe Albert wearing a traffic cone on his head. Gillespie, meanwhile, was flicking bottle tops at Shearer. 'Al was saying, 'Do that one more time and I'll give you a good hiding,' David Batty reveals in his recently published autobiography. The pair went outside and then Batty saw a pair of legs in the air. 'We ran out to see Gillespie spark out in the gutter. There was blood everywhere. Allegedly, Keith had taken a swing as the two made their way towards the rear of the pub and Al had turned and decked him.'  7 Dwight Yorke (with guest appearance from Mark Bosnich, 1998) Vital ingredients Four girls, a hidden video, dressing up in women's clothing Dwight Yorke's nocturnal activities in Manchester have attracted the displeasure of his manager Alex Ferguson on a number of occasions. His most notorious moment came when he secretly videoed a drink-fuelled sex romp involving himself, the then Villa keeper Mark Bosnich and four girls at his luxury house in Sutton Coldfield. The video showed Yorke and Bosnich giving thumbs-ups to the secret camera and wearing women's clothing. Yorke later threw the video out with his rubbish, but unfortunately for him a 'Sun reader' found it and the pictures were then shared with a disbelieving nation. 8 Jody Morris (2001) Vital ingredients The Chelsea Four, nightclubs Just when you thought footballers were beginning to learn how to behave themselves, Chelsea produce a youngster from another era. In the past two months alone, the 22-year-old has produced enough bad behaviour to warrant a place on this list. The Chelsea Four (Morris, plus Frank Lampard, John Terry, Eidur Gudjohnsen) spent the day after the World Trade Centre attacks getting drunk in front of grieving Americans in a Heathrow hotel. A month later Morris was involved in a nightclub fight. And he has form: including spending a night in the cells after being arrested for being drunk and disorderly after a binge in Wimbledon last year. Morris and pals were reported to police for fighting in a pub and lying in the road with their tops off.  9 Ally McCoist (2001) Vital ingredients Patsy Kensit, an air hostess It may come as a surprise to have a second entrant from this year, but like Jody Morris McCoist's remarkably bad behaviour recently could not be ignored. Not content with his affair with Patsy Kensit (an affair that he brought to an end, which made all the papers) it then transpired he didn't have one mistress but two. The second was 28-year-old air hostess Donna Gilbin, who didn't know about Patsy and was sure Patsy didn't know about her. 'He was a wonderful lover and he made me melt,' Donna told the People. 'But now I know that he's just a liar and a hypocrite. My world fell apart when the bombshell dropped.' 10 Tommy Tynan (1991) Vital ingredients Booze, the game 'buzz', a kettle (used as a weapon) As the Torquay team attempted to bond before the 1991 play-offs, a session of the drinking game 'buzz' was organised. When Tynan tried to break up an argument between his captain Wes Saunders and player-coach Russell Musker, Saunders punched Tynan, leaving him with a cut eye. The players then went to bed, but at 2am Tynan went to Saunders's room to seek vengeance and according to chairman Mike Bateson, 'he picked up the nearest thing handy, which was a kettle, and hit Wes with it'. Justifying his selection... This month's 10 was selected by Pete May, the author of 'Sunday Muddy Sunday' and 'The Lad Done Bad'. Here he explains his choices: Are footballers any worse than other sportsmen? Well anyone who's ever been in a rugby club-house knows that they do not have a monopoly on bad behaviour. And at the last Olympics, Britain's swimmers earned a certain notoriety for, shall we say, world-class partying.  But, perhaps because they tend to have a higher profile, footballers will always get more attention when their indiscretions are exposed (sometimes literally). Reducing my selection to 10 proved difficult, but there were a few ground rules. I restricted it to English-based players, to events off the field and excluded behaviour that is plain wrong or criminal. (Though that, of course, is a subjective matter - some will see every one of those in my 10 as wrong, and a number are certainly criminal). The key element, I hope, is humour. Footballers who have been caught out by their sheer bone-headedness or by the comical daftness of their undoing (Best and Yorke). Surreal props such as kettles always help. Those who nearly made it include Jamie Carragher for his naked cavorting with a stripper (whipped cream was involved), Jason Dozell and Chris Kiwomya for bad behaviour involving a pavlova cake and an off-duty waiter, and Ray Parlour tipping a packet of prawn crackers into the opened bonnet of a Hong Kong taxi. They were all valiant efforts. In the end, there could only be one winner. Worthington's triumph was of its time, but also timeless.  He was a great player, an even greater character. But has any footballer ever paid a higher price for giving into his baser instincts? And his wonderful autobiography shows that he took his downfall in the spirit in which this list is intended. He may not have played for Liverpool. But he had a lot of fun. Now have your say Have we scandalously overlooked the bad behaviour of your favourite player? We thought so, and we want to hear why. Write and tell us who your 10 would be, justifying your selection in no more than 50 words. A selection of your 10s will be published next month. Send your cards to: 10 Bad Boys, OSM, Observer sports desk, 119 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3ER or email us: osm@observer.co.uk

 

Edited November 17, 2021 by Midlands Yellow

[Yobocop 1,105]

Carl Bradshaw and ched evans spring to mind instantly 

[Rivvo 257]

Culverhouse and golf clubs?

[RobertRosariosBeefTomatoes 31]

Ched Evans was found innocent

[Duncan Edwards 2,261]

Matty Pattison

[cambridgeshire canary 6,781]

8 hours ago, Yobocop said:

Carl Bradshaw and ched evans spring to mind instantly 

Wasn't Evans found innocent?

[A Load of Squit 5,210]

1 hour ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

Wasn't Evans found innocent?

He was found not guilty on appeal but the description of his behaviour that night at the trial was appalling and would warrant him being included in the list.

https://thesecretbarrister.com/2016/10/14/10-myths-busted-about-the-ched-evans-case/

 

Edited November 17, 2021 by A Load of Squit

[AJ 1,224]

Didn't Craig Bellamy get threatened or threaten someone in a hotel room with golf clubs whilst at Liverpool? 

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Chris Sutton Arrested The Night Before he moved To blackburn 

Keith O'Neil  blocked a bath tub at Sprowston manor with fruit after a wild night 

Cameron Jerome had some funny stories here also