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Drunken antics, dressing room squabbles, and everything else BBC Sport won't touch with a bargepole.
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Lurking beneath its slick, modernising image, German football is hiding some dark secrets. In fact, its 21st century has been truly scandalous. From goalkeepers on chainsaw rampa...
Everyone knows Brazilian strikers love 3 things: boozing, showboating and shagging anything that moves. But none can match Garrincha, the magical winger who lifted two World Cups,...
Todd Boehly has a reputation as a clueless yank. The Chelsea owner once asked his manager to field 12 players in a rare 4-4-3 formation. But when it comes to the business side, h...
We often joke that French football is just a sordid sexual psychodrama. And this week has been no exception. From porn stars shagging in stadium toilets to FA bosses begging coll...
The Arsenal dressing room of the 1990s was absolutely mental. It was ruled by a riotous ring of badly-behaved boozers who called themselves "The Tuesday Club". From stints in th...
Back in the 90s, Duncan Ferguson was football's most terrifying hardman. The Everton legend was the first footballer jailed for an on-field offence, but that's just the half of it...
Wayne Rooney's recent team talk about his "tiny knob" capped off an incredibly weird, sexually charged, and occasionally glorious career for the legendary striker. From shagging g...
Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day of an NFL player's career. It's definitely not the day to wake up in jail after trawling the red light district for a prostitute. But that's...
In the mid 2000s Ronaldinho was the king of football... and an absolute shagger. But the madcap world of the buck-toothed genius was about to come crashing down. From four-way re...
When they weren't sucking on cigars or bedding pop royalty, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen formed the NBA's deadliest duo. But these days they absolutely despise each other. F...
They don't make sports stars like Jimmy White anymore. From crack cocaine binges to getting wrecked with the Rolling Stones, 'The Whirlwind' was an absolute nutcase. But even by...
New Everton gaffer Sean Dyche has the voice of a chain-smoking phone operator at a rural minicab firm. And it turns out his gravelly voice might be down to an unusual party trick...