Footballer Marlon King has been jailed after being found guilty of punching a woman who spurned his advances in a nightclub.
After she somehow was not won over by his winning chat up technique of grabbing her bum, he became enraged and punched her in the face so hard it broke her nose.
He also uttered the immortal line “don’t you know who I am?” to her, to which if she had, she would have replied “aren’t you that third-rate, ugly, shit striker who moves between teams near the bottom of the Premier League?”
I’ve written about how dislikeable Sol Campbell is in the past, but King takes to a whole new level.
Campbell is a money-grabbing egoist out for number one, but King is a violent women-hating thug.
Let’s get this clear – Pele he aint, a goal every six games is not good for a striker, it’s almost as low as Emile Heskey but he still got 35k a week at Wigan - who have admirably sacked and publicly slated him.
It’s an enormous amount and it has clearly pushed King firmly into the land of delusion most footballers occupy.
It’s a world where you believe you can do what you like to people without any consequence, where money is no object and where you believe because you have one skill in life, you are some sort of God among men able to treat people like garbage.
King, Joey Barton, Lee Bowyer, Jermaine Pennant, Ashley Cole, the list goes on and on, super mega ego-maniacs who think they can carry on as they please.
Well, they can’t.
You’d hope after this no-one in football will touch King again, but they will, as morals are not considered.
King could help a team out by occassionally scoring (on the pitch, we’ve seen he can’t do it off it), but in an ideal world, no-one would give him another chance.
Oh yes, he has previous for violence against women, as well as driving a car which he knew was stolen which he was sent down for a few years back.
He’s an odious example of the modern footballer and was given the chance to prove himself and has cocked it up royally with his ego spiralling out of control.
I will be thoroughly disgusted, but not all surprised if he comes out of prison saying he’s a changed man blah blah blah and then signs for a third-rate football league club.
I hope the next girl he tries his world class pulling technique with is the is the British women’s kickboxing champion who knocks his teeth out.
Top ten Sports Fights
In Comment, Multifarious, News, Sport, Top Tens on November 1, 2009 at 9:51 pmWelcome to a new section of The Multifarious called top tens
We hope to bring at least one new top ten a day and they are exactly as they sound, we’d like people to send in their own as well.
This is the top ten sports fights
10.
Look at them go, this is an epic punch up in Australian rugby in 1981, everyone goes in but there are two blokes absolutely piling into each other in a separate brawl.
It gains extra points for featuring newspaper outrage.
9.
French rugby
I’m not sure who the two teams are here, but rest assured they don’t like each other, look out for the bit where no 10 nearly gets thrown into the crowd.
8.
British Lions Vs Australia 1989
The boys standing up for themselves in the days men were men and moustaches were moustaches. Some top class windmilling here.
7. Brian London Vs Dick Richardson 1960
Couldn’t find a video of this boxing classic, but it features in this one, which also has a brilliant clip of a boxer’s mum coming in the ring and attacking his opponent with her shoe.
It’s the black and white clip about 6.30 minutes in, I love how old fashioned it looks, especially when the rozzers come in.
6. Barcelona Vs Athletico Madrid
It all kicks off here, that little curly-haired man kicking everyone left footed is none other than Diego “dirty cheating Argentinian Bastard” Maradonna, who was clearly fed up at being booted up in the air every time he got the ball.
5. This is a top compliation featuring some nasty fouls, but it’s about 2.20 in you’re after, the brawl is OK, but the priceless moment for me is when the bloke leaps down the tunnel when he’s being chased.
4. New Zealand Maori Vs Cook Islands rugby league
This is a little known gem, featuring lots of ludicrously fired-up rugby league players trying to out war-dance each other.
3. A wonderful picture of 1970s football here, silly hair, terrible kits and some world class windmilling from the legendary Francis Lee.
2.
Lee Bowyer Vs Keiron Dyer
The football gods were smiling on us all when two of the most hated footballers playing for the most laughed at team in the country proceed to start brawling with each other in the middle of a game.
1. bet you didn’t think no 1 would be in basketball did you?
This is the extraordinary brawl between the Indiana Pacers and The Detroit Pistons, it starts off with a bit of pushing and shoving and ends up with the players steaming into the crowd.
It’s disgraceful, yet brilliant as well.
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=indiana+pacers+fight&hl=en&emb=0&aq=0&oq=indiana+pac#