'Bad boy' players

BazzaBear said:
It's when it became public. But there was talk about Fergie having seen there was a problem early and deciding to let him go.
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I guess now there would be a bigger onus on the club that brought him through to address those issues. In hindsight giving a pay rise as he got when moving to Newcastle, for a lad Fergie identified as having gambling issues probably not a great move for the lad's growing addiction. Different times I guess.
 
Keano was a real bad boy. A lot of the players mentioned are just silly little boys.
 
Ben Foster apparently tried to enter a bar in San Diego with a couple of other thugs and was turned away. Probably looking for a bar fight.
 
USREDEVIL said:
Ben Foster apparently tried to enter a bar in San Diego with a couple of other thugs and was turned away. Probably looking for a bar fight.
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Should've hopped the border and gone to TJ. No one gets turned away there.
 
Antonio Cassano.
Also, who was that Ligue 1 player that stole a teammate's watch or something?
 
Robin Friday, the ultimate bad boy.

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90 + 5min said:
Bad boys? Here I was thinking of real bad boys on pitch. Like Wise, Batty, Keane, Feguson, Ruddock,, Souness and so on.

I wouldn't call those youngsters for bad boys. Some of them just couldn't handle the pressure of being fameous or being on verge to be fameous.
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Batty was an interesting one, couldn't stand him at the time obviously but I get the impression that he was better than just a destroyer and maybe felt too restricted and just simply walked away from it like it was just a 'normal' job.

Julian Dicks/Neil Ruddock were basically placcy gangstas, fat thugs imo and seeing what happened to the great Big Dunc, I can think of a couple of incidents where they basically assaulted players.
 
Gonna get a lot of hate from United fans for this but here's my take:


A lot of these "bad boys" are just clowns who compensate for their lack of personality(and other things) with cringeworthy tattoos, styling and schoolboy behaviour. Most are just fake hardmen with obnoxious styling and demeanor.


Real bad boy energy(whatever that means) radiates from people who don't try that hard and have a certain sort of natural charisma and X Factor/Presence about them.


The best example of a natural bad boy in this sport would be Peak Jose Mourinho. He was cool without even trying. Had loads of charisma and X Factor. His inherent arrogance/cockiness perfectly suited his persona. Immense presence on screen(like a movie star) and the real "bad boy".


Apologies, I know you guys despise the man but he fits the bill.
 
TenonTen said:
Gonna get a lot of hate from United fans for this but here's my take:


A lot of these "bad boys" are just clowns who compensate for their lack of personality(and other things) with cringeworthy tattoos, styling and schoolboy behaviour. Most are just fake hardmen with obnoxious styling and demeanor.


Real bad boy energy(whatever that means) radiates from people who don't try that hard and have a certain sort of natural charisma and X Factor/Presence about them.


The best example of a natural bad boy in this sport would be Peak Jose Mourinho. He was cool without even trying. Had loads of charisma and X Factor. His inherent arrogance/cockiness perfectly suited his persona. Immense presence on screen(like a movie star) and the real "bad boy".


Apologies, I know you guys despise the man but he fits the bill.
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Fair play, I could see him in some sort of 1940s or 1950s noir movie as a detective with special methods of solving cases!
 
TenonTen said:
Gonna get a lot of hate from United fans for this but here's my take:


A lot of these "bad boys" are just clowns who compensate for their lack of personality(and other things) with cringeworthy tattoos, styling and schoolboy behaviour. Most are just fake hardmen with obnoxious styling and demeanor.


Real bad boy energy(whatever that means) radiates from people who don't try that hard and have a certain sort of natural charisma and X Factor/Presence about them.


The best example of a natural bad boy in this sport would be Peak Jose Mourinho. He was cool without even trying. Had loads of charisma and X Factor. His inherent arrogance/cockiness perfectly suited his persona. Immense presence on screen(like a movie star) and the real "bad boy".


Apologies, I know you guys despise the man but he fits the bill.
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Mourinho wasn't hard. You can't start your post with that paragraph and then use Mourinho as your example... he was just arrogant. Off the top of my head, his one moment of 'bad' was when he put his finger in Tito's eye. Which I felt was more cowardly than badass.

Cantona is probably a better candidate. The guy just does whatever he wants, without a care about how others would perceive him.
 
The 'Animal' Edmundo for persistent misbehaviour, manslaughter, constant fighting and intoxicating a monkey.

Eric Cantona football's coolest vigilante and original enfant terrible..

Sinisa Mihaijlovic for frequently seeing the red mist, racial abusing Vieira and famously being friends with war criminal Arkan
 
Also Paolo Montero collected red and yellow cards like they were going out of fashion

And of course Diego Armando Maradona
 
Kellyiom said:
Julian Dicks/Neil Ruddock were basically placcy gangstas, fat thugs imo and seeing what happened to the great Big Dunc, I can think of a couple of incidents where they basically assaulted players.
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Ruddock is still proud of the fact that he gave Andy Cole a double leg break with the most cowardly challenge you could ever see.

The one good thing about "A League if their Own" was getting Ruddock on to humiliate himself publicly on a recurring basis. The fat dickhead probably only got £50 each time as well.
 
Amsterdam Devil said:
Not United, but in 1996 Kluivert, then 19 years old, was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving. He drove 104kmh in a 50kmh residential zone in a non-insured car. He was found guilty of manslaughter and received a three-month suspended sentence and 240 hours of community work.

In this time with all the social media and a lot more attention for football players, it would have been a lot harder to continue his career I think.
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Social media didn’t stop Marcos Alonso from enjoying a successful career despite driving drunk and killing a passenger at he drove the car into a wall.
 
FrankDrebin said:
How can his ego not get inflated when he's earning the money he's on
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Well that's down to the the individual to control. Tonnes of very wealthy people put their egos to death on a daily basis. It's just another skill to hone, but more in the mental department. Choose your friends and who you associate with wisely, and force yourself to absorb a healthy dose of reality on a daily basis. I think the damage can already be done based on a person's upbringing though. If your parents are blingers there is a very high chance you will be too.
 
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