Weekend Quiz: Scandals, Controversies and Bad Boys

By: Laurie | February 21st, 2009

This week’s quiz is all about the Bad Boys — the guys who have at some point made a name for themselves for something other than stellar performance on the pitch.

These scandals/controversies could be recent or long ago. They could be on-pitch or off-. There may be one or many. They could be legal, moral, ethical — or just really, really embarrassing.

Bonus points to whoever names the scandal(s).

So who are these bad boys? Leave your guesses in the comments. Answers tomorrow.

(And once I started making a list, I realized I had more than enough for two quizzes. If you don’t see someone you expected to see in this one, he may show up next week.)

Player 1

Player 2

Player 3

Player 4

Player 5

Player 6

Player 7

Player 8

Player 9

Player 10

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Marco P.

1. ? (like C-Ron for this one)
2. Beckham (or Cassano)
3. Barthez
4. Govou
5. Zidane?
6. Ferdinand
7. ?
8. Stoichkov
9. Best (but Cantona's a better answer)
10. Henry (but Adriano's a better answer)
eros miranda,juve

1-Bellamy (also looks like gareth southgate)- golf club scnadal with riise
2-Adrian Mutu: After tranferrin gto chelsea he went into a drug (cocaine) scandal n was sold.
3-Barthez:match fixing scandal.
4-Govou
5-Borriello:Failed drug test.
6-Fernidand:been caught drinking and driving, involved with a sex-taping scandal, and of coarse, was banned for failing to take a drug test.
7-Boruc:the finger to rangers’ fans nad waving celtic championship flag in front of them; refusing to shake hands with b. ferguson after the game; the shirt with the pope
8-John Conway
9-Cantona:kung-fu kicking an oppenen.At Montpellier, he was involved in a fight with team-mate Jean-Claude Lemoult and threw his boots in Lemoult’s face. The incident led to six players demanding that Cantona be sacked.
10-Stan Collymore
George

8 John Conway! I admit I didn't recognize him. I had to use Laurie's hint and google images (I knew it was either Conway or Parke because of the performance enhancing drug scandal)
Laurie

Well done, folks. No one person has guessed all, but all but one have been guessed.

Hint for #8: Laurie always includes in her quizzes a token player from...
Musab

Could one be Milan Baros?
eros miranda,juve

1-Bellamy (also looks like gareth southgate)- golf club scnadal with riise
2-Adrian Mutu: After tranferrin gto chelsea he went into a drug (cocaine) scandal n was sold.
3-Barthez:match fixing scandal.
4-Govou
5-Borriello:Failed drug test.
6-Fernidand:been caught drinking and driving, involved with a sex-taping scandal, and of coarse, was banned for failing to take a drug test.
7-Boruc:the finger to rangers’ fans nad waving celtic championship flag in front of them; refusing to shake hands with b. ferguson after the game; the shirt with the pope
8-Robbie Fowler- Drug Scandal
9-Cantona:kung-fu kicking an oppenen.At Montpellier, he was involved in a fight with team-mate Jean-Claude Lemoult and threw his boots in Lemoult’s face. The incident led to six players demanding that Cantona be sacked.
Dumitru

#9 is adrian mutu.
Ómar

I am guessing #2 is Cassano
Tommy Wong

#1 cr7
#2 marek hamsik
#3 Barthez
#4 govou
#5 lampard - scandal = plays for chelsea...laf laf
#6 ferdinand
#7 boruc
#8 i don't think it is, but i have no idea so - robbie fowler
#9 eric cantona
#10 robinho
eros miranda,juve

http://www.soccer-weblog.com/i...
this shows the scandal for player numbr 1 xD
eros miranda,juve

1-Bellamy (also looks like gareth southgate)- golf club scnadal with riise
3-Barthez:match fixing scandal.
4-Govou
5-Borriello:Failed drug test.
6-Fernidand:been caught drinking and driving, involved with a sex-taping scandal, and of coarse, was banned for failing to take a drug test.
7-Boruc:the finger to rangers’ fans nad waving celtic championship flag in front of them; refusing to shake hands with b. ferguson after the game; the shirt with the pope
8-Robbie Fowler- Drug Scandal
9-Cantona:kung-fu kicking an oppenen.At Montpellier, he was involved in a fight with team-mate Jean-Claude Lemoult and threw his boots in Lemoult’s face. The incident led to six players demanding that Cantona be sacked.
matt

does guti normally have the remnants of a dirtstache above his lips? cause cristiano does.
Bonnie

#10- Stan Collymore?? Beat his girlfriend and then admitted he liked to have sex in public places with strangers.
gregorio

1 - bellamy

breaking a golf club on j.a. riise's legs before liverpool-barca game, and then scoring a goal (!)

8 - robbie fowler

snuffing cocaine (?) or was it sodomy;p
eros miranda,juve

3-Barthez:match fixing scandal.
4-Govou
5-Borriello:Failed drug test.
6-Fernidand:been caught drinking and driving, involved with a sex-taping scandal, and of coarse, was banned for failing to take a drug test.
7-Boruc:the finger to rangers’ fans nad waving celtic championship flag in front of them; refusing to shake hands with b. ferguson after the game; the shirt with the pope
9-Cantona:kung-fu kicking an oppenen.At Montpellier, he was involved in a fight with team-mate Jean-Claude Lemoult and threw his boots in Lemoult's face. The incident led to six players demanding that Cantona be sacked.
Bonnie

#6-Rio Ferdinand - been caught drinking and driving, involved with a sex-taping scandal, and of coarse, was banned for failing to take a drug test.
Juve Bob

Player 10...Adriano? Scored with his arm against Milan in the recent derby.
Bonnie

#1 looks like Guti to me. His most recent scandal being the "kissing a man/actually his sister" incident, also known for dating a transsexual actress.

#5- Borriello. Failed a drug test because his skanky girlfriend had to use an STD cream that apparently contained steroids.
matt

1. looks like cr7, is it the world cup rooney red card thing?
2. wild guess is it's totti and its around the time christian poulsen hocked a loog his way?
4. looks like sid govou and he looks like he's floating cause he's had too much to drink...and he looks like he's gonna drive a car too.
9. is eric cantona and he's either taking a dump all over the rest of his french teammates, going bruce lee on a fan in the stands, or bossing the field like no one since or before.
gregorio

so let's begin with boruc - the pic nr 7

- the glasgow derby scandals: showing the finger to rangers' fans nad waving celtic championship flag in front of them; refusing to shake hands with b. ferguson after the game; the shirt with the pope
- drinking scandals: the incident after poland-ukraine game, after he was suspended for two games by leo beenhakker; another one when in club, artur got 50grand fine
- recently, beating up mcgeady
- way too many blunders in the last few months

still, all the best to the holy goalie!