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Excape Goat
21 Aug 2005, 01:41 PM
Do not name Maradona the TV presenter or Vinnie Jones the actor
Julio Iglesias was a keeper for Real Madrid.
Rod stewart was with Brentford.
Albion + England
22 Aug 2005, 06:14 AM
Ian Botham
Derek Acorah
Excape Goat
22 Aug 2005, 09:57 AM
Ian Botham
Derek Acorah
what teams???
superdave
22 Aug 2005, 09:58 AM
Ethan Zohn played somewhere in Africa...Zambia maybe.
Toon³
22 Aug 2005, 10:27 AM
Ian "Beefy" Botham played for Scunthorpe
dna77054
23 Aug 2005, 12:24 AM
Andrew Shue baby, oh yeah.
Albion + England
23 Aug 2005, 05:52 AM
what teams???
Scunthorpe and Liverpool. However, Derek Acorah never made a first team appearance for Liverpool i don't think.
michaec
23 Aug 2005, 07:44 AM
I think the chef Gordon Ramsay was on the books of Glasgow Rangers at one point. Never heard of him playing in the first team though.
pasoccerdave
23 Aug 2005, 07:55 AM
I think the chef Gordon Ramsay was on the books of Glasgow Rangers at one point. Never heard of him playing in the first team though.
H*ll's defender?
Gringocholo
23 Aug 2005, 09:04 AM
Who can forget Vinnie Jones? :)
Cassano
23 Aug 2005, 10:19 AM
If anyone has seen the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", the actor that plays the brother of the main character played in Australia and was wanted by a Greek team, but decided to go into acting.
from imdb.com
His name is Louis Mandylor and he even starred in the movie "The Game of their Lives":
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541909/
burnie_s
23 Aug 2005, 11:01 AM
john fashanu - gladiators presenter innit.
burnie_s
23 Aug 2005, 11:03 AM
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destekke
23 Aug 2005, 03:07 PM
Eddy Merckx played in Belgian First Division
Elninho
24 Aug 2005, 03:24 AM
Niels Bohr, the Nobel prize winning physicist, was the starting goalkeeper for AB in 1905. His brother Harald, a noted mathematician himself, also played for AB, and was a member of the Danish national team that won the silver medal at the 1908 Olympic Games.
(Contrary to some reports, Niels Bohr never played for Denmark.)
Norwegian chess grandmaster Simen Agdestein earned 8 caps for Norway as a midfielder before injury cut short his football career in 1992, at the age of 25. He made his professional football debut in 1984, and played his entire career for Lyn Oslo, though just before his career-ending injury he was reportedly mulling offers from German Bundesliga clubs.
Rui Costa
24 Aug 2005, 05:35 AM
The Chilean tennis player Marcelo Rios was reportedly a good footballer and possibly could have been a professional, but he opted to play the sport where most of his talent lay.