Strangest Departures
One minute you're riding high, the team's winning and the fans are sinigg your name, the next you're flicking on the box to read on Ceefax that you've got the boot. Oh well, that's football. Eyes down, look in, then, for FOOTBALL STRANGEST DEPARTURES
Kevin Bond
Had his Newcastle contract terminated after being implicated in BBC's Panorama programme over bungs and corruption in football. Bond is now suing the club for wrongful dismissal.
Rodney Marsh
Mouthy Marsh was always treading a fine line. Eventually he was sacked from his job as pundit at Sky for a joke about David Beckham and the Tsunami in Asia.
Dietmar Hamann
After signing for Bolton on a free from Liverpool, the German international promptly changed his mind about the move, and Bolton sold him to Manchester City for £400k.
Brian Clough
There aren't many managers whose first team talk with his new players is a lecture on why their winners medals are worthless. That’s why Cloughie lasted only 44 days.
Ron Atkinson
Living on easy street with his job as chief pundit on ITV. But then he put his size nines in his big, vile mouth and made those comments about Marcel Desailly.
