Criminal Minds

In the game of football, the glamour aspect is something which every player has to face whether in the beginning of his career or in due course. And when people have much money and property, they tend to increase those by hook or crook sometimes. Thus, there had been few footballers who have been charged with crime for their involvement in it somehow or the other. Few premier league players were involved in certain crimes they had committed that it defamed their personality as a whole. Few players stopped playing the game altogether while few others were sacked by their clubs. Again there are instances of how players even after getting involved in a crime had continued their career and ended it successfully.

Joe Barton is one such player who had started his career fairly well but was involved in hitting a person. His face was recorded in a CCTV footage and he was jailed for six months at Strangeways prison in Manchester. However, after serving his punishment for two months, he was given a bail. At the time he was involved in this incident, he was playing for Newcastle United. The then Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan also had supported him during his acquittal. After being released, Barton went back to Newcastle and then he went to the French club Marseille and later also came back to the premier league to play for QPR.

Marlon King is another player who has been to the courtroom for a good many times. In the year 2009, he was jailed for one and a half years for groping a woman and then physically assaulting her. At that moment he was playing for Wigan but after he was released from jail, the Wigan club authorities sacked him. He then joined Coventry City and became the player of the year for them in that year. King had also served 18 months in jail for dangerous driving.

Lee Hughes was a striker of West Brom Albion when he was imprisoned for six years. His crime was dangerous drink driving which caused few deaths also. The club had ended his contract after he was jailed. In 2007, when he had been released from prison, he signed a deal with Oldham Athletic Club. Later, he made 55 appearances for the club and scored as many as 25 goals.

Plymouth supporters must be remembering Luke Mckornick only for bad reasons. He was the player who had caused the death of two brothers aged 8 and 10 in a drunken state while he was driving his M6. Immediately after the incident was known by the Plymouth club officials, he was sacked from the club. He was sentenced to jail and was imprisoned for seven years and four months.

Liverpool had stuck by Jan Molby while he was imprisoned for drink driving. He served few months in jail and after being released, he continued to play for Liverpool for another eight years.

Players having a huge fan following must try to prevent themselves from committing crimes of any sorts.

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