The Earl of Boote was a rich man with a passion for football. Gorgeous Gus, as the Redburn Rovers fans have nicknamed him, possessed the hardest shot in football. The power of his shots were enough to knock a goalkeeper clean off his feet backwards into his own net. He was also an eccentric player and person insisting that all passes were played directly to his feet and if they weren't he would not move to intercept the ball. As a rule he scored two goals and then substituted himself to rest in his own small pavilion on the touch-line.
Gus was grotesquely rich but nevertheless favoured a career in first division football. Not for him the usual ninety minute drudgery: sporting a hand-made silk kit, Gus would only deign to come on the pitch to take free kicks or penalties. As possessor of a literally net-breaking shot, these brief appearances guaranteed victory after victory. He was assisted at all times by a personal valet who cleaned his boots on the touchlines and provided refreshments from a silver tray.
Mario Balotelli
Blessed with buckets of talent, Mario Balotelli struggled to live up to the initial hype that surrounded him when he burst on to the professional scene for Inter aged 17.
When aged only 20, Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho had accused Balotelli of showing a lack of effort in training, stating "as far as I'm concerned, a young boy like him cannot allow himself to train less than people like Figo, Cordoba and Zanetti. Joe Allen, a Liverpool team mate, blasted Mario
Balotelli as the laziest Kop player. Sky pundit and Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher stated "He has a tendency to walk around, which I don’t like to see".
Balotelli will be remembered for letting off fireworks in his house, collecting pointless red cards, suspensions and parking tickets, writing off sports cars, throwing a dart at a youth player, missing trophy parades because he couldn’t be bothered, making his manager look like a drunken uncle in a fight and starring in a series of urban myths fuelled by celebrity fawners like Noel Gallagher, which painted him as some anarchic anti-hero.
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