considering any old baddie can seemingly invest & own a football club.

What about barring bad-boys from the promised Land ? playing at the top table of World Football. Players earning more per month than many people see in a lifetime.

many other careers are off limits to crooks, thugs, thieves & baddies. Accounting, childcare, teaching, doctors etc.

Surely it would send the right message to the youth walking our streets. Misbehave and you will never play at the top level ?

The most pertinent examples being : Marlon King, adam Johnson, although many other footballers have been to jail and/or convicted of various crimes.

How many stab-stabby boys in our newspapers are described as 'a promising young footballer' ? and still they get into trouble with the Law. Often with no fear of the cops. So how about instilling some fear of career-censure ?

The decision to ban bad-boys would need to be taken at the level of the FA. Because most football managers would sign Beelzebub himself if he promised a good performance on the pitch.

And of course the sanctions could be graded according to the crime :

Rape, murder, GBH......banned.

Drink driving, burglary.........a heavy tax on their earnings

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Edited by PalazioVecchio (28 Oct 2021 12.16pm)

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford