Straddling humour, trivia and sport, "Notorious" brings together for the first time one hundred of the most potty sportsmen in history. From boxing to cycling, soccer to baseball, and most sports in between, here are the hard-men and the criminals, the psychos and the loonies, that make up the sporting madness hall of shame. Among the prime candidates for sporting lunacy in this book: Prinya Charoenpal, one of the most talented kick-boxers in the sport's history, who wore make-up and pink nail polish, broke down when asked to strip for the weigh-in, pummelled the opponent who made the mistake of mocking her with a camp embrace, and who fought solely to get the money for a sex-change operation. Jack 'Hacksaw' Reynolds, the San Francisco 49-ers linebacker during the 80s, who once got plastered after losing a college game, went out to the car park with a hacksaw, and cut someone's car in half. The Brazilian football star Edmundo, infamous on the pitch for beating up fans, referees and journalists, and making his name off it by crashing his truck and killing three people, and being arrested for force-feeding beer to a chimpanzee at his son's birthday party. And there's more. The rugby league hard-man with a predilection for sticking a rigid digit finger up opponents' rears on the field of play; the baseball Hall of Famer who wielded his bat to beat up unsuspecting victims; the golfer hospitalised three times for alcohol poisoning, who came through two suicide attempts, three divorces, plus countless hotel room trashings and suspensions; the Irish jockey involved in an air rage incident who copped 110 hours of community service! And closer to home, the likes of Roy Keane, Alex Higgins, Vinnie Jones and Paul Gascoigne are also featured in this wildly captivating, and often shocking, collection of crazed sports celebrities.

Straddling humour, trivia and sport, 'Notorious' brings together for the first time one hundred of the most potty sportsmen in history. From boxing to cycling, soccer to baseball, and most sports in between, here are the hard-men and the criminals, the psychos and the loonies, that make up the sporting madness hall of shame. / An entertaining and eclectic potpourri of all the wild and wacky characters that make sport so appealing to the masses. / Its humour will attract a broad range of readers, including those with only a passing interest in sport. / An ideal Christmas stocking-filler for the sports-obsessed family member. / Trivia/humour books like Schott's specialised miscellany have proved hugely successful. / Competition: Motty's National Obsession (Sanctuary) Big Book of Sports Insults (Cassell)

About the Author

Richard Bath was born in 1967 and is sports editor of 'Scotland on Sunday' and a contributor to several magazines including 'Rugby World', 'Inside Edge', 'Golf' magazine and 'Inside Sport'. A former Scottish Sports Journalist of the Year, he has also published the 'Ultimate Encyclopedia of Rugby'.

Book Information
ISBN 9780007224852
Author Richard Bath
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint HarperSport
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Weight(grams) 303g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 24mm