Word: bowyer
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...have previously broken club rules that attempt to restrict the players' drinking and behavior. do you want to be a drunk or a footballer? screamed the Mirror. Indeed, a series of negative headlines involving footballers over recent months - including the retrial of Leeds United stars Jonathan Woodgate and Lee Bowyer, in which Woodgate was found guilty of affray - suggests a disturbing trend of players behaving badly. It also questions the ability of the game's authorities to control some of the world's best-paid athletes...
...takes a harder line. For most of the past two years, while Bowyer and Woodgate were facing charges in connection with a melee outside a Leeds nightclub that left a young male student scarred for life, the F.A. decreed both players ineligible to represent England; Leeds, however, continued to play them, arguing that they were innocent until proved guilty...