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Everyone’s favourite Dane was back in the headlines this week after tweeting he would be “picking up a cutie at the airport” rather than watching his current side VfL Wolfsburg draw 2-2 away at Borussia Dortmund.
Whether that meant he was innocently going to meet his son at the airport is unclear, but given Bendtner’s track record you wouldn’t bet on it.
However, this got CaughtOffside feeling all sentimental and nostalgic for the peak Bendtner era during his time at Arsenal and so we thought we’d look back at the strikers finest moments.
Paddy Power Underwear
Bendtner was fined €100,000 for lowering his shorts to show branded ‘Paddy Power’ underwear, referencing the Irish betting compant, after he scored twice in Denmark’s defeat to Portugal at Euro 2012.
Bendtner said: “It is just a pair of lucky boxer shorts that I used in the first game as well and have used before the tournament.”
Paddy Power agreed to pay his fine for him in the end after punters on Twitter complained it was unfair on ol’ Saint Nick
Scissor kick in Denmark training
Bendtner has a penchant for screwing up even the simplest of chances and even stopping certain goals for his team-mates – just see Bendtner’s goal-line clearance of a Cesc Fabregas shot when Arsenal played Liverpool.
However, he does have the ability to score some other worldy goals. The main problem though is that the majority, if not all of them, have come in training.
Just see one he managed in Denmark training.
Shirt number change
At the start of the 2009/2010 season, Bendtner made a late change to his shirt number from 26 to 52, so late in fact that the striker offered to re-imburse fans that may have already bought a shirt with the old number.
A promise that we predict may have put him back as much as £20.
But what was the reason for such a change?
Well after current Arsenal number nine Eduardo refused to give Bendtner his number when the striker requested, the Dane changed his kit to correspond with his current £52,000 weekly wage after recently signing a new contract at the Emirates. How modest.The Copenhagen Incident
In March this year, whilst Arsenal were busy getting knocked out of the Champions League by Bayern Munich, Nicklas Bendtner took an unauthorised trip to Copenhagen.
Bendtner was accused of threatening a taxi driver whilst drunk on the streets of the Danish capital and was said to drop his trousers and rub himself on the side of a taxi before whipping the cab with his belt and abusing the driver.Best striker in the world
It’s hard to do justice to the glorious archive of Bendtner quotes available on the internet.
There are some real gems out there that it feels unfair we are unable to share all of them. Please, please go out and find them for yourself so you too can revel in Bendtner’s “words of wisdom” that surely put him on par with some of the world’s greatest philosophers.
Here’s a taste: Bendtner won Danish player of the year from a newspaper in his home nation, and after was asked what his aspiration for the next season would therefore be.
“I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the world cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen,” he purred.
It didn’t.