Footballers Are Idiots

Following Paul Scholes’ venture into alleged homophobia last week, Rio Ferdinand didn’t want to miss out on football’s latest trend and nailed his colours firmly to the mast on national radio.

The random drug test dodger sparked a row when her branded Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles a ‘faggot’ during some banter between the pair on the breakfast show.

Referring to two United players by their nicknames, Moyles asked: ”If you had to, who would you rather go out with - Smudger or Scholesy?”

Ferdinand replied: “That is not my bag that, that is not my game, talking about going out with geezers.”

Moyles jokingly suggested he would always prefer ex Leeds United striker Smith over ginger Scholes, Ferdinand declared: “You’re a faggot.”

As the production team in the studio expressed shock and disbelief, England international Ferdinand quickly backtracked and with: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m not homophobic”.

Not much. As long as those ‘dirty queers’ don’t come anywhere near you eh, Mr Ferdinand?

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Striker Aleksandr Shirko, who plays for Russian whipping boys FC Shinnik Yaroslavl made the headlines over the weekend for doing what Eric Cantona did 10 years ago.

No, not putting in displays of sheer excellence on the pitch and scoring sublime goals, but getting into the crowd and giving someone a damn good hiding.

Bottom club Shinnik were walloped 6-1 at home against Rostov and the players endured plenty of abuse throughout the match from their own fans.

Shirko obviously took more offence than most and after the match, waded into the crowd to dish out a little Iron Curtain justice.

Watch Shirko wallop some Russian loudmouth

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I’m talking about a dive. From one Spurs great to another, summer signing Didier Zokora took one of the most blatant dives seen in the Premiership in order for floundering Spurs to earn victory against Portsmouth.

As soon as he was in the penalty area, Zokora took an elegant tumble despite being nowhere near closest challenger Pedro Mendes and the referee, with an unhindered view, gave the penalty.

Striker Jermain Defoe did his best to miss from the spot but his effort was just beyond the reach of Pompey keeper David James.

View this master class in cheating from the Ivory Coast’s finest

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Mick McCarthy saw his Wolves side trounced 4-0 against Championship leader Cardiff City on Saturday but it wasn’t the first time a team under his management came unstuck at Ninian Park.

The first half sending off of defender Gary Breen with the score at 0-0 was reminiscent of when McCarthy took his Sunderland side to South Wales in February 2004.

That afternoon, defender Joachim Bjorklund received a straght red after 17 minutes and the Bluebirds went on to hammer the Black Cats 4-0.

It seems that in football lightning does strike twice.

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Not really an “idiot” story as such but rather an example of a German attempt at what we call “humour”.

Werder Bremen goalkeeper Tim Wiese had a small glass bottle with a smashed neck thrown at him during their derby match against Hamburg.

What could have been a particularly nasty incident was played down rather by the man on the tannoy who announched:

“Don’t send Wiese any more drinks”.

Priceless.

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Manchester City bad boy Joey Barton is in trouble yet again after baring his spotty arse to Everton fans after the final whistle.

After City snatched a last gasp equaliser through another FootballersAreIdiots.co.uk favourite Micah Richards, Barton celebrated with his own supporters before mooning at the Everton faithful.

Why can’t Barton behave himself? The hot-head from Liverpool attracts trouble like the Fonz attracts ‘hot chicks’.

In 2004, he stubbed out a cigar in youth player Jamie Tandy’s eye and then broke the leg of a pedestrian while driving in May 2005.

He got two for the price of one in July 2005 when he managed to get into a fight with a 15-year-old Everton fan and had an altercation with team-mate Richard Dunne which saw the defender injure his foot.

That summer saw Barton fork out over £120,000 in club fines and this latest episode in his Hall of Shame is also likely to be a costly one.

See Barton make an arse of himself here

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