Funny no one mentioned Paolo Di Canio, genius of a player, but eccentric as hell, Once famously stopped playing when he saw an opposition player down injurred, and he was one on one with the keeper as well! Also famour for the shove on Paul Alcock in which you'd see the most theatrical dive ever, by a referee.
As seen here.

In his West Ham days, Harry Rdknapp used to describe him as scary, apparently, he'd come in to training in the morning and went like "Arry, I don't feel good" (put on your best Italian accent and you'll get the drift). Harry would give him the day off. AS Harry puts it, he doesn't want Paolo going into training kicking everyone, as he wasn't in a good mood. Harry explained it as "I don't know what happened, perhaps his wife didn't cook his favourite pasta or something, but boy when he turns up with that kind of look, I'd give him the day off as I don't want him punching my players out".

Absolute mad guy, also famous for his facist salute in Lazio.

Another thing about Gazza, once he turned up to a pub after playing for England in his full England kit, shin pads as well as boots!!!

Also, during one of the world cup, the British station had all the England players do a clip of them mouthing their own name as a "smart thing" to do, so when they introduce the players or feature the players in their program, they can use the clip, Gazza being Gazza, mouth over a swear word (which I believe is dumb C***) and the TV station had to put up with that for the rest of the world cup.

There are too many crazy things that Gazza did, he need his own thread for all the things he did.

What about the footballer who went completely bonkers and lived in the camper van now. What's his name again? He played in the World Cup too, was that Tomas Brolin? Or was it someone else?

This post has been edited by Jonno: Oct 30 2007, 11:22 PM

That's right Marco Boogers. Wonder what happened to the guy now? Didn't he also went on record to say that it doesn't matter that he plays or not, as long as he is still getting that 40K a week salary he was getting. Making him one of the very first mercenary?