Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet

Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet
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Straddling humour, trivia and sport, ‘Notorious’ brings together for the first time one hundred of the most potty sportsmen in history. From boxing to cycling, soccer to baseball, and most sports in between, here are the hard-men and the criminals, the psychos and the loonies, that make up the sporting madness hall of shame.Among the prime candidates for sporting lunacy in this book:Prinya Charoenpal, one of the most talented kick-boxers in the sport’s history, who wore make-up and pink nail polish, broke down when asked to strip for the weigh-in, pummelled the opponent who made the mistake of mocking her with a camp embrace, and who fought solely to get the money for a sex-change operation.Jack ‘Hacksaw’ Reynolds, the San Francisco 49-ers linebacker during the 80s, who once got plastered after losing a college game, went out to the car park with a hacksaw, and cut someone’s car in half.The Brazilian football star Edmundo, infamous on the pitch for beating up fans, referees and journalists, and making his name off it by crashing his truck and killing three people, and being arrested for force-feeding beer to a chimpanzee at his son’s birthday party.And there’s more. The rugby league hard-man with a predilection for sticking a rigid digit finger up opponents’ rears on the field of play; the baseball Hall of Famer who wielded his bat to beat up unsuspecting victims; the golfer hospitalised three times for alcohol poisoning, who came through two suicide attempts, three divorces, plus countless hotel room trashings and suspensions; the Irish jockey involved in an air rage incident who copped 110 hours of community service…And closer to home, the likes of Roy Keane, Alex Higgins, Vinnie Jones and Paul Gascoigne are also featured in this wildly captivating, and often shocking, collection of crazed sports celebrities.

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Richard Bath. Notorious: The Maddest and Baddest Sportsmen on the Planet

Notorious. Richard Bath

Table of Contents

Introduction

PARINYA CHAROENPHOL. Lady-boy killer

JOHN HOPOATE. Finger licking bad

ARMAND VAQUERIN. One madman, one bullet

START FC. Playing for keeps

DAVID ICKE. The Son of Godhead

DARRYL HENLEY. Living the American Dream

LARS ELSTRUP. The wildest goose of ’em all

RAE CARRUTH. Happy families? Not him…

MICKEY THOMAS. Cheeky chappie from the Valleys

MARV ALBERT. Baddest granddaddy of ‘em all

EAMON DUNPHY. Eamon, this is yer life

H’ANGUS. A cheeky monkey

MARGE SCHOTT. Major League racist

TY COBB ‘Ty Cobb is a prick’

UDAY HUSSEIN. Football manager from hell

TONYA HARDING. Trailer trash on ice

VINCE COLEMAN. Light the blue touch paper

JOHN LAMBIE ‘Tell him he’s Pele’

MIKE DANTON. Love-hate lunacy

JACK JOHNSON. Mister unconventional

ERIC CANTONA. Kung fu fighter

DICK CONWAY. Putting his body on the line

KY LAFFOON ‘Drown you bastard, drown’

DAMIR DOKIC. Daddy dearest

EDMUNDO. The animal

BETHANY HAMILTON. An uplifting madness

LOU DUROCHER. Nice guys finish last

ROLLEN STEWART. The rainbow warrior

BILLY MARTIN. Slugger extraordinaire

JEFF TARANGO. Slap-happy

EARL COCHELL. Big Mac’s role model

MARVIN BARNES. Bad to the bone

STUEY ‘THE KID’ UNGAR. Gin was his tonic

ANTHONY WADDLES. Punchbag

GEOFFREY HUISH. Showed real balls

MARIO ‘MACHITO’ GOMEZ. The unwanted party-crasher

DAI THOMAS. A real hooligan

RICHARD VIRENQUE ‘I’ll try anything’

CHICAGO WHITE STOCKINGS’MURDEROUS TRIO. Three of the worst

ALEX HIGGINS. The people’s nutcase

MIKE TYSON. Saddest man on the planet

DIEGO MARADONA. The nose of God

LATRELL SPREWELL. A losing spree

PAUL GASCOIGNE. Dr Gascoigne and Mr Gazza

DUNCAN FERGUSON. Duncan Disorderly

TITANIC THOMPSON. The hustler

ANDREAS KRIEGER. The guinea pig

JOHN DALY ‘It’s been a four-wheel drive, baby’

STEFANO MODENA. Unlucky for some

ROBERT JOYCE. That’s fan, as in fanatic

BLAIR MAYNE. A true warrior

WADE BOGGS. Mad for It

ROMANIAN FOOTBALLTEAM OWNERS. What can I get for two bags of ice-cream powder?

BILL TILDEN. Glad to be gay

WOODY HAYES. Crazy Hayesey, all Buckeyed and Bonkers

BOBBY FISCHER. Pawn star

GRAEME OBREE. Cycle of depression

MARK BOSNICH ‘I’ve always been a little bit crazy’

PETER STOREY. If at first you don’t succeed…

STAN COLLYMORE. The madness of King Collywibble

TED POOLEY ‘A madness for easy money’

TIMMY MURPHY. Rode on the dark side

GEORGE BEST. Best of times, worst of times

ROY KEANE. Roy rage

DARRYL DAWKINS. Chocolate Thunder from the Planet Lovetron

RIDDICK BOWE. Kidnapper undone by fast food

OLIVER McCALL. Cry, baby

MARTIN FREINADEMETZ. The Terminator

TOMMY MORRISON. The Duke of Destruction

LUCIANO ‘RE’ CECCONI. The King is Dead…

JOHN KORDIC. Rage, rage against the dying of the fight

STEVE MICHALIK. The Phantom Menace

TANK ABBOTT. Anyone, any place, any time

CARLOS ROA. Captain of the God Squad

JACK RUSSELL. Mad Dogs and Englishmen

ALAIN ROBERT. Super fly guy

ADA KOK. Wife from hell

DON KING. Teflon Don

ROY SHAW. Who’s a pretty boy then?

KEVIN WINN. Walter Mitty wants your body…

MATTI NYKANEN. Hell’s angel

RODNEY O’DONNELL. Bad luck of the Irish

MARC CECILLON. Murder most foul

ARRACHION. They don’t make ’em like that any more…

AMELIA BOLANIOS. Suicide is painful

JON DRUMMOND. Clown prince of sprinters

VLADIMIR TUMAEV. Football’s Peter Panski

VERE ST LEGER GOOLD. Trunk call

JACKIE SHERRILL. A load of bullocks

CARL FAZIO JNR. Marketing madness

GENNADIY TUMILOVICH. Showed real bottle

JUAN MARICHAL. Assault and battery

EMPEROR TRAJAN. Imperial leatherer

JIM BROWN. When Gandhi met Rambo

TARIBO WEST. Devon-sent

MITCH ‘BLOOD’ GREEN. Streetfighter

ALBERT BELLE. For whom the Belle tolls

LEIGH RICHMOND ROOSE. Mad dogs and Welshmen

ALBERTO CARLOS MARTINEZ. Fangs ain’t what they used to be

KEN ‘FLEX’ WHEELER. Officer Steroids

KEITH MURDOCH. The Incredible Sulk

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