Is it unfair to describe a player as an idiot because they took inspiration from one of the biggest stars of the 1980s and 1990s? Possibly, but when you realise how it was that the man known as ‘The Hoff’…
Read a story about a ‘Jones’ being an idiot when it comes to football and you’d be forgiven for thinking that we were talking about Vinnie Jones. In reality, though, this is about Paul Jones, the Welsh goalkeeper who suggested…
Football is a game of passion. The best managers are able to harness that and get their players playing at the top level whilst feeding from the crowd, such as Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool. Sometimes, though, that passion spills over…
Football isn’t an overly complicated game. Each team has 11 players plus substitutes, with the idea being that the teams try to get the ball into the opposition side’s net. The side that scores the most goals wins. You can…
Terry McDermott began his career playing at Bury, earning himself a move to Newcastle United before Bob Paisley came calling and took him to Liverpool. He then went back to Newcastle, meaning that his relationship with those two clubs was…
When Spencer Prior was playing for Cardiff City, he was often a subject for the ‘boo boys’ in the crowd. This was largely because he was paid a large wage to play for the Bluebirds, based on his solid reputation…
There will be some people that think that this is very much a case of a footballer being an idiot. There will be others, though, that think Gilles de Bilde was behaving entirely reasonably and that it was everyone else…