Is that Madame Doubtfire?
No wonder he thought Turin was like a foreign country!
he didnt wash his own shirts.
just didnt happen. not by 88-89
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You mean his Mum washed them
Plenty of interesting, nice words from his player to describe Alonso. It seems that he’s picked up a lot from Ancelotti in particular, judging by this article.
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Former players who are also a special person have their own thread 
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Talking of Aussies…
Thanks, never saw that one. Only familiar with the 90s Tooheys ads (a beer that was dominant in NSW through until the 2000s)
The ring pulls on the cans that came right off. I’d forgotten about those. 
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What’s the story with Bellamy being bankrupt?
Bad investments. Bellamy had been held up previously as an example of someone who was doing good things with his money, but appears the people who were managing it just completely fucked it up.
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Craig Bellamy has sent an emotional message after being declared bankrupt
"I have been living the last five or six years on Death Row just waiting for someone to put me out.
"I have been waiting for the cell door to open and someone to say: ‘Today’s the day’. It’s like the feeling of not being able to look forward to anything. All the money I’ve earned, I can’t get a mortgage. Financially, I have no future. The hurt of that. I can’t own anything. Everything’s gone.
"My life has been on hold. I’m not a tax dodger but I have been very naive and the HMRC have been pursuing me for unpaid tax for some time. Everything I have had has been taken from me. If you get the wrong people advising you, it all haemorrhages, it all dwindles. It has got to the point where bankruptcy is a relief. It means I can just live again.
“I know some people will probably think I have squandered all my money on drinking or gambling or drugs. I haven’t. I can go quiet where you won’t hear from me but I won’t be down the pub. I have never touched drugs since I was a young kid. I don’t gamble. I have never gambled. It doesn’t make any sense to me. But I have gambled on people unfortunately.”
"I want this to be a warning to other players. Check everything, make sure the people advising you are regulated. If they are not regulated, it’s the Wild West. Get your stuff audited by independent people, the equivalent of getting a second opinion. I was brought up in a generation of footballers where everything was done for you. Every bill. Wherever I was, the club did everything for me. I think that’s wrong.
“It makes you too vulnerable. It’s good for players to have their own responsibilities because one day the club will not be there. You will finish your career and you will still be a young man and when you finish who’s going to pay your stuff then? You are going to have to learn to survive. You are going to have live in the real world.”
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Very sad to hear his story. He wanted his story out to make sure nobody else fell into the trap he did.
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If I was in that position I’d buy housing stock.
That or utilities or Rail companies those three things never seem to have an issue with profit.
Or toilet rolls…people will always want loo rolls.
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He was a hooligan on the pitch and an idiot off the pitch, don’t feel sorry for him one bit.
I can’t remember what he did off the pitch tbh.
He just told us in the article.
Isn’t that what Robbie Fowler did? I think the key is only to invest what he had spare and to put it into something solid.
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