Now That's Foul Play!

1 Duncan Ferguson
Think of 'Big Dunc's' career and you think headers and headbutts. When he wasn't nodding them in for Everton, the towering Scot spent the '90s lurching between assault charges. He bagan his pugilism with two punch-ups at Scottish taxi ranks and a fight with a fisherman in a Fife pub, before a headbutt planted on John McStay of Raith Rovers in 1994 earned him the dubious honour of being the first player to be jailed for an act of violence on the pitch (he got 44 days).

2 Dwight Yorke
Yorke's legendary grin momentarily slipped in 1998 after stills from a video found their way to The Sun newspaper. Filmed with a secret camera and subsequently thrown out with the rubbish, the tape showed a champagne-fuelled Yorke at the centre of a four-girl orgy watched by fat Aussie goalie Mark Bosnich (who was wearing a skirt and being whipped). Each to their own...

3 Paulo Di Canio
How do you raise the bar when you've already pushed over a Premiership referee (as Paulo Di Canio infamously did in 1998)? The fiery striker rose to the challenge in December 2005, when he celebrated a Lazio victory over his former club, Juventus, by cocking his right arm in a blatant fascist salute. "I am a fascist, not a racist," Di Canio later told the Ansa news agency. Oh, right – glad we cleared that up...

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