Weekend Quiz Answers: More Bad Boys

By: Laurie | March 1st, 2009

If you haven’t taken our second Bad Boys quiz, stop by here and make your guesses, then come back to this post for the answers.

Boy, this one was a lot harder than I expected! As I said in the comments of the previous post, I made the photo cuts kind of difficult because the answers themselves were so easy. But I guess I made them a little too hard. Live and learn.

Congrat to our top guesser, “eros miranda, juve” for getting 7/10.

Player 1

El Hadji Diouf, Blackburn

I think Diouf belongs in a Bad Boys quiz just on general principle, but if you need a reason we can go with either a) the spitting thing or b) “verbal assault on a referee” or c) breaking curfew and getting himself benched before Senegal’s last game in the African Cup of Nations last year.

Congrats to Matt, first to see Diouf.

Player 2

This was one of those that was too tough. So what if I’d give you this photo instead?

No? Well, then, how about this one?

That one did the trick, didn’t it? Yes, our bad boy is none other than…

Joey Barton, Newcastle

Scandals too numerous to mention, most of them involving alcohol and/or anger management issues.

Player 3

Ronaldo (the Brazilian one, not the pretty one), Corinthians

It’s a good thing Ronaldo is back playing again. Perhaps he’ll stay busy, thus preventing a repeat of the thoroughly embarrassing Dreaded Tranny Surprise.

Congrats to Eirik for being first to see Ronaldo.

Player 4

Djibril Cisse, Sunderland

The scandal was not those hairstyles. (No, really.) It was the unfortunate wife-beating allegations.

But that was awhile ago. I’m thinking (hoping) that Djibril has grown up a bit in the years since.

Congratulations to “eros miranda, juve” for seeing Cisse.

Player 5

Zinedine Zidane, retired

Alas! Alack! Nobody got Zidane.

Let me repeat that. Nobody got Zidane. (Although a couple of you guessed Zidane for #8. I never saw a resemblance between these two players before these photos, but I definitely do here.) I’m thinking the mouth must not be what people see when they see his face.

Also, don’t ask me about the ear plugs because I have no idea.

Player 6

Sylvain Wiltord, Marseille

Congrats again to “eros mirande, juve” for being first to spot Wiltord.

Nino’s scandal? No details ever leaked out that I saw, but according to the always-accurate rumor mill, it was something to do with a hotel, a group of women, and nine (nine!?!?) other Lyon players, with Wiltord as the ringleader. And surprise, surprise, he was shipped off to Rennes shortly afterwards.

Player 7

Diego Maradona, ret., currently coaching Argentina

You’re looking at that photo right now and thinking, “D’oh!” aren’t you? Because you’re all seeing it now, but nobody saw it earlier. (I actually thought this one would be too easy.)

For a scandal? Oh, pick one. I’m thinking I’ll go with the cocaine.

Player 8

Steven Gerrard, Liverpool

Let’s choose as our scandal that recent barroom brawl. Although I’m thinking that the whole Liverpool gangster thing was pretty shady too.

(And he looks like such a choir boy!)

Congrats to “eros miranda, juve” for spotting Gerrard first.

Player 9

Francesco Coco, retired

Congrats to “eros miranda, juve” for seeing Francesco. The scandal was less legal/moral and more “really, realy embarrassing” and involved blackmail and photos of a “companion” who was a woman. Really. I’m serious. No, I mean it. Totally female. She was just, y’know, photoshopped to maybe look otherwise.

Or something.

(And thanks to you people and this blog, my search history now contains the phrase “Francesco Coco transvestite.” My mother would be so proud.)

(Oh, and where did that search lead me? Back to The Offside, of course.)

Best Guess Award goes to Mike, with “Papa Smurf.”

This one belonged in a “Players as Managers” quiz, but when I stumbled on it this week I couldn’t resist posting.

Bonus Player

Guus Hiddink, Chelsea Manager

Our bonus player/manager was none other than Lucky Guus, newly arrived at Chelsea and first guessed by Rodge. The scandal I was thinking of was probably the Russian tax evasion thing. Or maybe the Turkish belly dancer incident:

“It was in Istanbul that I was framed,” Hiddink recalled in his autobiography This Is My World. “This lady invited me to, let’s say, drink coffee at her house. She said she was a huge fan of the club. She was a cute lady in a small pink top.

“I walked to her house at night. When I opened the door that night to walk home, all the paparazzi were there. Flash, flash, flash. All the cameras were there to frame me. I later discovered the lady in the pink top was a belly-dancer. Her stunt with me helped her push her act up from £300 to £700.”

Let this be a lesson to you, boys. Never trust a cute lady in a small pink top, or you’ll end up in one of Laurie’s Weekend Quizzes.

(And also in her search history, as she googles, “[Your name here] + belly dancer.”)

And that’s it for this week. Thanks for playing! Stop by next week for more Weekend Quiz fun.