THIS week Good Sport wants to start the water cooler talk, the bar-room banter and the barbecue chatter. Over the next three weeks we’ll be tabling the Bad Boys of Sport; The Good Guys of Sport; and the All-Time Greatest. We want you to vote (10 points is for the baddest boy of all time, down to 1 point for the 10th baddest). We have a great book giveaway for the winner and we’ll be running the results next week. You can pick from the list below or add your own in. We’ll be asking our panel of five judges to come up with their results and we’ll be posting the results on our website. You can vote through our website and we’ll publish one reader’s effort next to our judge’s choices next week. Good luck and here are some BAD BOYS that may help with your voting entries ...
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Diego Maradona (soccer) Hand of God
Craig Gower (RL & RU) Urinary problems
Mike Tyson (boxing) Ear biter
Julian O’Neill (RL) Poo in the shoe
Shane Warne (cricket) Off-field rogue
Les Boyd (RL) Perennial bad boy
Bob Cooper (RL) Lengthy suspension
Wayne Carey (AFL) Team-mate’s wife
Brendan Fevola (AFL) Where do we start?
Matty Henjak (RU) Bar fight with teammate
Todd Carney (RL) The man of many second chances
John Daly (golf) Walkouts, booze and smashed cameras
Eric Cantona (soccer) Everybody was kung fu fighting
Richard Loe (RU) Eye gouger and face smasher
John McEnroe (tennis) “You can not be serious, jerk”
Ben Cousins (AFL) Drugs
Jeff Farmer (AFL) Anger management
Denis Rodman (basketball) Mr Eccentricity
Dermott Brereton (AFL) Suspensions galore
David Rhys-Jones (AFL) Tribunal favourite
Tony Lockett (AFL) Bad guy come good
Barry Hall (AFL) Temper trouble
John Hopoate (RL) The digit poke
Mark Bosnich (soccer) Hitler sign
Ben Johnson (athletics) Drug cheat
Lance Armstrong (cycling) Drug cheat
Paul Gascoigne (soccer) Alcohol
Andrew Symonds (cricket) I did it my way
Vinnie Jones (soccer) Tough guy
Zinedine Zidane (soccer) The headbutt
Anthony Mundine (boxing & RL) Trash talker
Sonny-Bill Williams (RL & RU) Walkout
Tiger Woods (golf) Womaniser
Michael Vick (NFL) Dog ring
Winner will be selected by a random draw (Permit No LTPN/12/00761). Entries close, 5pm next Wednesday (winner announced next Friday in the Port News and contacted by email).