Luis Suarez And The 10 Most Controversial Footballers Of All Time

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Rene Higuita (Colombia)

Eccentric former Colombia international keeper who will forever be remembered for the eye-catching scorpion kick that he pulled out of his bag of tricks in a friendly international against England at Wembley in the mid-Nineties.

However, back in his homeland the shot stopper went to prison for seven months in 1993 for his role in a kidnapping, with Higuita being the go-between for drug war lord Pablo Escobar, for which he received $64,000.

 

 

Joey Barton (Queens Park Rangers and England)

Well, where does one really start with the spiky and opinionated midfield player who is in the headlines more for his off-pitch activities usually than what he does on the field of play, although not always.

The Englishman just loves to speak his mind on a whole range of diverse topics, and is never short of a word of two about his fellow professionals either.

However, the 31-year-old also made the news for all the wrong reasons of late after being hit with a whopping 12-game ban by The Football Association following an ugly spat with several Manchester City players on the final day of the 2011-12 campaign which resulted in the player being sent on loan to Marseille.

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