ex footballers gone wrong

[Malandro]

Shame Lowry

[damon loves JT]

Young footballers who act up should be made to spend a week making deliveries with Des Walker. The club could pay Des £500 to be super-arsey

[brontebilly]

Mark Bosnich was in a bad way a couple of years ago, not sure if he has cleaned up his act since

[villa `cross the mersey]

Much depends on the time frame when you assess whether a footballer has gone wrong. The best player I have ever seen was John Charles and the crock of gold at the end of his rainbow was the tenancy of a pub, in Leeds I think. That in turn led to excessive drinking and the all too familiar sad end. However, that was considered to be a well planned exit from the game in the not so distant past. Players with less generous clubs got a newsagents.

George Edwards had a newsagents in Baldwins Lane, Hall Green. Through him my late father struck up a relationship with Stan Lynn and Harry Parkes - he attended shareholders meetings with them - betwen them they must have been the first "Anti Ellis" brigade.

[darren woolley]

Jimmy Greaves I know he used to have a drink problem a long time ago but now he's had a stroke and needs help with his care he was a brilliant goalscorer I wonder if he was playing today how much would he be worth when you see average players going for £10 million and above I hope the football world can help him out.

[in exile]

I noticed that a couple of you had mentioned bankrupts, so I'll suggest Brad Friedel who went bankrupt with debts of nearly £5 million

[maidstonevillain]

Much depends on the time frame when you assess whether a footballer has gone wrong. The best player I have ever seen was John Charles and the crock of gold at the end of his rainbow was the tenancy of a pub, in Leeds I think. That in turn led to excessive drinking and the all too familiar sad end. However, that was considered to be a well planned exit from the game in the not so distant past. Players with less generous clubs got a newsagents.

Anyone remember Craystons newsagents in Blackwood Road, Streetly. Arsenal and England.

[TopDeck113]

It was only after I left Streetly that I got to wonder how Jack Crayston ended up running a newsagents in a residential district of a conurbation from which he neither hailed or played for one of its teams.  Does anyone know?

[robbo1874]

Mark Bosnich was in a bad way a couple of years ago, not sure if he has cleaned up his act since

He has. He's a pundit on fox sports A league match day coverage here in aus, along with Robbie Slater. Bit of a knob to be honest. Slater's ok, but a bit too serious.

[Matt Collins]

All the girls at school fancied bosnich

By the time he was in his thirties he looked like Ian Beale!

[damon loves JT]

Cocaine will do that. By the time he's 50 he'll look like Lou Beale.

One for the kids there

[Ron Manager]

Cocaine will do that. By the time he's 50 he'll look like Lou Beale.

One for the kids there

at sixty he'll look like Pete Beale.

[damon loves JT]

Can you even tell that this person used to be a professional athlete? Clue: the highlight of his career was scoring four goals against the Villa

[LeeB]

Can you even tell that this person used to be a professional athlete? Clue: the highlight of his career was scoring four goals against the Villa

He looks like he's mimicking Paul Jewell's sex face.

[PeterWithesShin]

David White?