5. Paul McGrath (Manchester United, Aston Villa)
A brilliant defender who spent seven years each with United and Villa and played in three international tournaments for Republic of Ireland. His only honour for United was an FA Cup in 1985, in which he was voted Man of the Match. As his alcoholism grew worse, his performances began to suffer and in 1989 was offered a retirement package and a testimonial from United. …
10. Marco Materazzi (Everton)
Serie A winner, Champions League winner, World Cup winner, Everton yard-dog. Materazzi signed for Everton from Perugia in 1998 and played just twenty-seven games, managing to get sent off four times.
9. Mario Jardel (Bolton Wanderers)
He came to Bolton Wanderers in 2003 at the age of thirty with an absolutely staggering goal scoring record behind him. For Vasco da Gama, Gremio, Porto, Galatasaray and Sporting Lisbon he scored two-hundred-and-sixty-two …
Picture the sweltering humidity of a Mexican summer. The haze, long since descended, thick and inescapable, converges upon you, distorting, refracting the warm air. Through the ineluctable blur, a stadium; a restless, chanting crowd and before you the on rushing charge of yellow jersied, blue shorted men.
One, relentless, forces his way towards the byline and, from your left, propels the ball through the thick, heated air towards a leaping legend. Redirected, …
He must be one of Botswana's Naughty Boys
Here at The Transfer Tavern, we pride ourselves on provoking serious intellectual debate whilst catering to a high brow and discerning audience.
If that doesn’t sound convincing, it’s probably because I’ve just made it up and clearly I would far rather spend my time getting kicks out of Googling amusing football club names.
Africa seems to be a hotbed of incredulous monikers such as the frightening …
There are only two more games left to conclude this year’s World Cup before we can all concentrate on the domestic season ahead. Unfortunately, that season is still over a month away. So, to ease the withdraw symptoms likely to be caused by the disappearance of Lineker et al from the telly, to ease you into a month in which no real football is going to take place at all, here …
Real Geezers Gasp
It’s not cool and it’s not clever. But, laughing in the face of doctors who protest that good health is essential to be a good athlete, here are five footballers that have been snapped ‘fagging’ it.
Zinedine Zidane
Oh you know, only one of the modern games greatest players enjoys a cheeky puff. Although it’s unlikely his lung capacity would have ever hindered his ability to put the ball on a sixpence, Zidane …
Long time no tweet
Not content with falling out of nightclubs and having sex with each other’s girlfriends, top flight footballers have now found a whole new high-tech way of stirring up trouble for themselves.
Here are 10 of the beautiful games biggest imbeciles in the fantastic world of twitter.
Darren Bent (Sunderland)
Sadly no longer broadcasting after posting a string of hideously misguided updates concerning his £10m transfer from Tottenham and an incident …
'Ole Big Head' could spin afew one-liners
Let’s face it. Most men in football aren’t highly regarded for their intelligence or command of the English language, but, despite their frequent tendencies to make a fool of themselves, players and managers alike have been known to brilliantly summarise aspects of the game using inappropriate analogies and very occasionally impart pearls of wisdom amongst unsuspecting fans.
They have left us laughing, cringing or just down …
Right, when it comes to looking at ‘fans’ of world-famous football clubs like Liverpool it’s amazing how the list of people I found made me immediately take his/her name out of the equation as I honestly didn’t believe they knew much about Liverpool, or football in general.
There’s no doubting that Liverpool does have many genuine fans mainly because of their success in England and in Europe, especially when some of their …
It’s always intriguing to see what football clubs famous people, or so called ‘celebrities’, support. Today I’ll be looking at Manchester City and the list includes people from different professions. So here goes:
Noel Gallagher (musician/songwriter Oasis) – Gallagher doesn’t really need much introduction does he? Has always been the main songwriter for Oasis and contributed to their great success in Britain. Is an avid City fan and …
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