Post by hendo on May 23, 2020 10:59:22 GMT
Naughty Boys.
Many footballers have been convicted of various crimes over the years, the favourites being various combinations of drink, drugs and driving along with fraud, fighting and fornication.
However, these offences don’t tend to impinge on an actual match unlike when Droylsden FC forward Paddy Wilson was warming up ahead of an FA Trophy tie against Ashton in 2002 and Manchester police arrived on the scene and dragged him away in connection with outstanding road traffic offences. Droylsden went on to win the game.
The Botafogo defender Andre Luis was lugged off the field by riot Police during a Brazilian championship match at Nautico in June 2008. Luis was sent off for a second booking and reacted so badly to the decision that the Police moved in, delivered a few gratuitous baton blows to his kidneys then blasted him with pepper spray for his trouble, the whole episode wildly cheered on by the sell-out crowd.
The police at least waited for the final whistle when they handcuffed the Quilmes defender Leandro Desábato after his team's 3-1 Cup defeat to São Paulo and took him away for reasons that were never explained.
Another by-line here: I was halfway filming a commercial on location in South London when the boys in blue suddenly arrived and arrested my main actor for a history of persistent shoplifting. As I still had shots to complete, the producer begged the police that we could finish with him before he was carted off. Logic, reasoning and pleading didn’t have any effect but a generous donation towards the Police Back Pocket Fund did the trick, although I have to say the rest of the actor’s performance that day wasn’t great. I don’t think his heart was in it.
Back in the world of sport, there are a few standout criminals who have broken away from the conventional list of offences and gone for something far more spectacular.
The Colombian Goalkeeper Rene ‘Scorpion kick’ Higuita, served seven months in 1993 after acting as a go-between for two drug barons.
Peter Story, former Arsenal and England midfielder, was banged up for running a successful brothel.
Gavin Grant of Bradford City has the dubious honour of being the only footballer in the English leagues to be convicted of murder.
Mind you, Marlon King of Watford and Wigan did as much as he could to be the next on that list with a string of convictions including, wounding, assault, fraud, more assault, handling stolen cars, assault again, causing actual bodily harm and sexual assault (for a change).
Although, with all these criminal going-ons, it should be noted that in one case incarceration actually worked to the benefit of the prisoner. The Jamaica international Jamie Lawrence was jailed for robbery and, whilst playing for the prison side, was spotted by a league coach and his career began.
Of course, in America, things are reputed to be bigger and better – which, as the rest of the World know, is only true when it comes to their opinions about themselves.
American football and gun crime seem to go hand in hand.
Aaron Herndez of The New England Patriots was convicted for first degree murder, sentenced to life without parole, then did the decent thing and hanged himself in his cell with his bedsheets.
Another New England Patriot Eric Naposki is still serving life for murder. I assume he finds it hard to tie a knot in his futon.
Robert Rozier of the St Louis Cardinals was a chap who obviously had taken too many hits to the head and killed seven ‘white devils’ after joining a weird cult.
Anthony Smith of the Oakland Raiders ‘warmed up’ for his life of crime by firebombing a furniture store that had sent him the wrong sofa. He then graduated to slaughtering three people a few year later. Presumably they hadn’t cared for his choice of curtains.
And of course, there’s OJ Simpson the most famous sportsman of them all who DEFINITELY wasn’t guilty of anything having benefitted from the American legal system that works on the principle of ‘Guilty until proved wealthy’.
We in the Combined Counties league come down just as hard on those that transgress and stray from acceptable behaviour. Ten minutes in the sin bin. Long enough to consider their wrongdoing but not long enough to get a prison tattoo.
Many footballers have been convicted of various crimes over the years, the favourites being various combinations of drink, drugs and driving along with fraud, fighting and fornication.
However, these offences don’t tend to impinge on an actual match unlike when Droylsden FC forward Paddy Wilson was warming up ahead of an FA Trophy tie against Ashton in 2002 and Manchester police arrived on the scene and dragged him away in connection with outstanding road traffic offences. Droylsden went on to win the game.
The Botafogo defender Andre Luis was lugged off the field by riot Police during a Brazilian championship match at Nautico in June 2008. Luis was sent off for a second booking and reacted so badly to the decision that the Police moved in, delivered a few gratuitous baton blows to his kidneys then blasted him with pepper spray for his trouble, the whole episode wildly cheered on by the sell-out crowd.
The police at least waited for the final whistle when they handcuffed the Quilmes defender Leandro Desábato after his team's 3-1 Cup defeat to São Paulo and took him away for reasons that were never explained.
Another by-line here: I was halfway filming a commercial on location in South London when the boys in blue suddenly arrived and arrested my main actor for a history of persistent shoplifting. As I still had shots to complete, the producer begged the police that we could finish with him before he was carted off. Logic, reasoning and pleading didn’t have any effect but a generous donation towards the Police Back Pocket Fund did the trick, although I have to say the rest of the actor’s performance that day wasn’t great. I don’t think his heart was in it.
Back in the world of sport, there are a few standout criminals who have broken away from the conventional list of offences and gone for something far more spectacular.
The Colombian Goalkeeper Rene ‘Scorpion kick’ Higuita, served seven months in 1993 after acting as a go-between for two drug barons.
Peter Story, former Arsenal and England midfielder, was banged up for running a successful brothel.
Gavin Grant of Bradford City has the dubious honour of being the only footballer in the English leagues to be convicted of murder.
Mind you, Marlon King of Watford and Wigan did as much as he could to be the next on that list with a string of convictions including, wounding, assault, fraud, more assault, handling stolen cars, assault again, causing actual bodily harm and sexual assault (for a change).
Although, with all these criminal going-ons, it should be noted that in one case incarceration actually worked to the benefit of the prisoner. The Jamaica international Jamie Lawrence was jailed for robbery and, whilst playing for the prison side, was spotted by a league coach and his career began.
Of course, in America, things are reputed to be bigger and better – which, as the rest of the World know, is only true when it comes to their opinions about themselves.
American football and gun crime seem to go hand in hand.
Aaron Herndez of The New England Patriots was convicted for first degree murder, sentenced to life without parole, then did the decent thing and hanged himself in his cell with his bedsheets.
Another New England Patriot Eric Naposki is still serving life for murder. I assume he finds it hard to tie a knot in his futon.
Robert Rozier of the St Louis Cardinals was a chap who obviously had taken too many hits to the head and killed seven ‘white devils’ after joining a weird cult.
Anthony Smith of the Oakland Raiders ‘warmed up’ for his life of crime by firebombing a furniture store that had sent him the wrong sofa. He then graduated to slaughtering three people a few year later. Presumably they hadn’t cared for his choice of curtains.
And of course, there’s OJ Simpson the most famous sportsman of them all who DEFINITELY wasn’t guilty of anything having benefitted from the American legal system that works on the principle of ‘Guilty until proved wealthy’.
We in the Combined Counties league come down just as hard on those that transgress and stray from acceptable behaviour. Ten minutes in the sin bin. Long enough to consider their wrongdoing but not long enough to get a prison tattoo.