ex footballers gone wrong

[silhillvilla]

Paul Merson. Blew his first ever pay cheque as a pro footballer same day in the bookies and never really recovered.

[Stirchley Villain]

Marlon Harewood at Nuneaton?

[LeeB]

Marlon Harewood at Nuneaton?

That's more "clubs gone wrong"

[saunders_heroes]

Paul Merson. Blew his first ever pay cheque as a pro footballer same day in the bookies and never really recovered.

He doesn't look like he's doing too badly to me.

[Chris Jameson]

Paul Merson. Blew his first ever pay cheque as a pro footballer same day in the bookies and never really recovered.

He doesn't look like he's doing too badly to me.

He's another one who has somehow found employment where you need to be able to use words and form sentences and doesn't appear to be able to do either.

[TopDeck113]

Plenty of the names on this thread simply prove the adage about a fool and his money.  Although I would add that in a business where young men barely out of school are made millionaires, their employees perhaps have a duty of care to ensure that they are properly advised and helped.

[PeterWithesShin]

Not having Sky I don't see Soccer Saturday very often, the odd time i've seen it in the past I always got the impression Merson was on there, in part at least, for them to take the piss out of. The 'bantz' is probably very popular with most of the Sky watching generation.

[silhillvilla]

Paul Merson. Blew his first ever pay cheque as a pro footballer same day in the bookies and never really recovered.

He doesn't look like he's doing too badly to me.

He's got a cushy number at Sky and on the after dinner circuit as he has "a tale to tell" but he's certainly spunked a lot of £££ up the wall through a variety of means and misdemeanours . (Haven't we all though)

[silhillvilla]

Not having Sky I don't see Soccer Saturday very often, the odd time i've seen it in the past I always got the impression Merson was on there, in part at least, for them to take the piss out of. The 'bantz' is probably very popular with most of the Sky watching generation.

He sort of plays court jester which is some going when you're in the same room as Charlie Nicholas , Phil Thompson and Matt Le Tis.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Not having Sky I don't see Soccer Saturday very often, the odd time i've seen it in the past I always got the impression Merson was on there, in part at least, for them to take the piss out of. The 'bantz' is probably very popular with most of the Sky watching generation.

He sort of plays court jester which is some going when you're in the same room as Charlie Nicholas , Phil Thompson and Matt Le Tis.

Sounds like hell on earth.

[Steve R]

Albert Johanneson's plight, even before he left football, was pitiful. He was too much of a victim to qualify as a 'footballer gone wrong'. If ever a player deserved a guiding hand and a bit of help from his former club it was Johanneson.

[Villa in Denmark]

Plenty of the names on this thread simply prove the adage about a fool and his money.  Although I would add that in a business where young men barely out of school are made millionaires, their employees perhaps have a duty of care to ensure that they are properly advised and helped.

That's what the employ agents for.

Unfortunately (and this may be a gross misrepresentation based on a few high profile arseholes) the agents appear to be at best, as concerned about earning their next 10% as looking after their clients best long term interests.

The only way you're going to protect footballers from the corrosive effects of that much wealth at that age, mostly without the education or self-realisation to navigate amongst the sharks, yes men, and leaches that that kind of money attracts is to deposit a large percentage of their wages into some sort of trust fund to be accessed on retirement so that there will always be something there. (Just like the rest of us do, just that we have to work and save for 40 years to get a relative pittance back.)

[Matt Collins]

Bob Holness. Its just come back to me.

and Dion Dublin's dad was in Showaddywaddy.

John Lukic mom was stewardess on ill fated flight of of Munich in 1958. I remember him being interviewed and he said it would have been a hell of a pregnancy 3 years in total.

Sorry I read that twice and I still don't understand

[Percy McCarthy]

Bob Holness. Its just come back to me.

and Dion Dublin's dad was in Showaddywaddy.

John Lukic mom was stewardess on ill fated flight of of Munich in 1958. I remember him being interviewed and he said it would have been a hell of a pregnancy 3 years in total.

Sorry I read that twice and I still don't understand

It's an oft-repeated urban myth that John Lukic's mom was on the Munich plane whilst pregnant with him, but it's obviously not true as he wasn't born until three years later.

[itbrvilla]

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