Maradona - just watch his last game for Barcelona.
Mad bastards of the game
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My instant thought too.
Most of that 70s Leeds team
Well. That's a given, mate.
To this day it still remains remarkable and an injustice that Duncan Ferguson was sent to prison for that headbutt. What were the Police thinking?
Delle Alli
Lehmann
Materazzi - Stam - Vidic - Pierce
Keane - Gattuso - V. Jones - Souness - McMahon
Ferguson
Id hate to play those 11. Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan on for subs, to get some cnuty stud action.
Materazzi - Stam - Vidic - Pierce
Keane - Gattuso - V. Jones - Souness - McMahon
Ferguson
Id hate to play those 11. Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan on for subs, to get some cnuty stud action.
Do you disagree? Don't get me wrong I'm not mad about it. I just find it bizarre and almost unprecedented.
Oh I thought you were joking. He definitely deserved to be prosecuted. Not sure how anyone could argue otherwise? With regards to the sentence I'm not sure why he was given an custodial however I'm not sure if he had a previous criminal history or of the sentencing guidance in Scotland.
Pre children Rooney.
No one hasnt mention Marcos Rojo
I'm not sure if I'm saying this just because of THAT kick, but Nigel de Jong?
Can't remember if he was a dirty player apart from that but I have a feeling he was
Can't remember if he was a dirty player apart from that but I have a feeling he was
Alan Smith
Lee Bowyer
Suarez?
Lee Bowyer
Suarez?
I'll have to go back a bit to find what the OP's after. The man who fits that description best would be Peter Storey. Then followed by:
Gentile
Duncan Ferguson
Billy Bremner
Ron Harris
Graeme Souness
Roy Keane
Robbie Savage
Gattuso
Gentile
Duncan Ferguson
Billy Bremner
Ron Harris
Graeme Souness
Roy Keane
Robbie Savage
Gattuso
'Not sure how anyone could argue otherwise?' Are we talking about the same incident?
If everyone who committed a similar offence in football was prosecuted by the police we would have multiple prosecutions a season. As best I know, there has not been another prosecution for a similar football offence in Britain since this happened.
In this very thread, we have Ben Thatcher trying to take a man's head off and he was not prosecuted for it. The punishment stayed within football, as it should.
Some crazies from the 90s:
Julian Dicks
John Hartson
Dennis Wise
Neil Ruddock
Julian Dicks
John Hartson
Dennis Wise
Neil Ruddock
Remember him trying to break Giggs' shin at old trafford the cnut
I think you can get away with an elbow/shoulder charge and argue it's part of the game. You can't get away with walking over someone and headbutting them in the face though off the ball. The law doesn't offer any protection/defence for that.
But there have been countless head butts before and after the Ferguson case in Scotland & England and as far as I know, the law has not got involved with any of them, much less send a footballer to jail for it! That's what I meant by it being a unique case.
Just when I see his name a few posts above, surely John Hartson was lucky he didn't serve time for kicking Eyal Berkovic in the head?
Jose Luis Chilavert the goalscoring Paraguayan keeper, used to hit Freekicks and Penalties for them. Was an absolute hothead and wouldn't have thought twice about laying someone flat!
Schumacher on a one on one
Jordan Henderson
Kevin Muscat
The man is not a footballer but a thug.
The man is not a footballer but a thug.
Pasquale Bruno is a mostly forgotten lunatic from 80s/90s Serie A:
Doesn't seem to have mellowed much as an Italian TV pundit these days, and evidently doesn't like Bonucci very much:
Doesn't seem to have mellowed much as an Italian TV pundit these days, and evidently doesn't like Bonucci very much:
Carlos Roa mightn't fit the bill for this thread as he seems a pleasant sort on and off the pitch, but if he wasn't a mad bastard in his own way he'd probably have been a Utd player and maybe saved us from enduring Bosnich, Taibi etc.Bruno said:
Sid Lowe said:
Chic Charnley's another one. Used to enjoy reading about his exploits in Scotland in the newspapers, when he seemed to either score a 30 yard screamer or else get sent off for assaulting someone on a regular basis. 17 red cards, proper journeyman career but seemed to be genuinely talented too.
He’s the first one I thought of. You don’t forget a challenge like that.Also, Ben Thatcher, whose magnum opus was the worst challenge in premier league history, described at the time as “a bit late” and “on the brink of a red”
Roy Keane would’ve been awful to be around if you’d had a lacklustre game and had to face him in the dressing room.
It is still hard to believe. A couple of people have said that there are more hard men than mad men in the thread but you have to be mad to do something like that to someone.
At the end of the day, you do that anywhere else bar in MMA and you go to prison. He got a yellow card.
Yeah most definitely although I guess it depends what Berkovic wanted to do about it. It was also behind closed doors.
Ashley “he could have killed him!” Williams
Pepe and Nigel de Jong
Gotta give honourable mentions to Rojo and de jong too. Surprised Suarez hasn't been mentioned more. The guy literally went around biting people.
Haven't seen Rene Higuita mentioned?! Crazy and hard man/Wannabe hard man are totally different. I wouldn't have the likes of Ruddock or Barton anywhere near a Mad Bastards 11.
A front 3 of Cantona, Edmundo and Stoichkov for me, with Maradonna in behind!
A front 3 of Cantona, Edmundo and Stoichkov for me, with Maradonna in behind!
Ben Thatcher is a piece of shit and should have been prosecuted at least 5 times for some of the savagery he displayed on the football pitch. Stuff like this was his bread and butter:
Then there's this guff city put out a few years ago trying to portray him as a lovely bloke who had one moment of madness. Pond life.
Then there's this guff city put out a few years ago trying to portray him as a lovely bloke who had one moment of madness. Pond life.
Fellaini on Guendouzi always gets me.
especially as he had his head recently shaved
especially as he had his head recently shaved
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Graham Roberts was a bit of a hatchet man, although a good player.
Terry Hurlock was another who could lose it.
There is someone else who's name I can't quite remember. In the eighties, pretty sure he was the person with the most red cards in the league. I can picture his face but not his name. Midfielder for a non-top side. Anyone help me dredge his name from the dark recesses of my memory?
Terry Hurlock was another who could lose it.
There is someone else who's name I can't quite remember. In the eighties, pretty sure he was the person with the most red cards in the league. I can picture his face but not his name. Midfielder for a non-top side. Anyone help me dredge his name from the dark recesses of my memory?