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Paul Shepherd: The Leeds United Player Jailed For Drug Dealing

Paul Shepherd: The Leeds United Player Jailed For Drug Dealing

The Story of Paul Shepherd - Footballer Turned Drug Dealer [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2450"] Jailed football star Paul Shepherd plays against Danny Williams. Picture credits: Hatters Heritage [https://thesporting.blog/caption] Leeds United fans won’t remember their 1996 defeat to Arsenal fondly,

Carlos Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football

Carlos Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football

Carlos Kaiser: The Supposed Star Footballer That Never Played a Game! [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300"] Football scam artist Carlos Kaiser [https://thesporting.blog/caption] Carlos Kaiser has one of the most fascinating stories in football. A con artist immortalised in film - how

Gavin Grant: The Footballer Jailed For Murder

Gavin Grant: The Footballer Jailed For Murder

The Story of Gavin Grant: The Footballer Jailed For Life Football can bring a person out of poverty and pull them away from a life of crime. However, Gavin Grant couldn’t quite leave behind what he tried to escape from. But how did he end up behind bars? Sports

On Your Head! The Greatest Headers of a Football

On Your Head! The Greatest Headers of a Football

The All-Time Greatest Headers of a Football in History! Heading the ball in football is a special art. Height is certainly a factor when helping a player to rise above defenders and prod home without using their feet. However, as this article will prove, it is not a crucial

Nathan Ashton: The Gambling Ex-Premier League Winger Jailed For Armed Robbery

Nathan Ashton: The Gambling Ex-Premier League Winger Jailed For Armed Robbery

Jailed Football Star: The Story of Nathan Ashton Few football fans will know the name of Nathan Ashton, as his Premier League career was short-lived in the early 2000s. He was a player with the world at his feet who ended up in jail over multiple armed robberies. So,

Sydney Barnes, Wilt Chamberlain and The Madness of Cross Era Comparisons

Sydney Barnes, Wilt Chamberlain and The Madness of Cross Era Comparisons

Why comparing eras in Sport will always end the same way Since the beginning of more or less everything, humans have been obsessed with comparing things. Films are always stacked up against greats of their genre and music is often held to the standard of one’s classic favourite - not

4 Genuine Football Wonderkids That Didn't Fulfil Their Potential

4 Genuine Football Wonderkids That Didn't Fulfil Their Potential

Four football wonderkids who couldn’t fulfil their potential and get to the very top of the game Late in the 2020 summer transfer window, Theo Walcott joined Southampton on a season-long loan from Everton. The cyclical nature of this transfer will please the football romantics; Walcott has returned