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Footballers do tend to be very much like Marmite – you either love them or hate them.
CaughtOffside decided to round up the top 10 Marmite footballers
10) Nicklas Bendtner
Bendtner is more comedian than footballer these days but his ridiculous claims of grandeur and ability without proof seem to have either rubbed people up the wrong way or afforded him cult hero status.
9) Wayne Rooney
Obviously an incredible player for England and Manchester United, but ruins his reputation through consistent diving and questionable off-field exploits.
8) Mario Balotelli
Like Bendtner before him Balotelli seems to have become, at times, an actual parody of himself – but at least in the Italian’s case he had talent to back up his persona.
However, the 24-year-old is notoriously difficult to work with and could either be the making of breaking of a side with no particularly care for which it is.
7) Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Ibrahimovic certainly has impressive records and the stats show that he is one of the world’s leading talents but like his peers, Zlatan certainly knows it.
Just search Dare to Zlatan and try and withhold the bile.
6) Cristiano Ronaldo
He’s arrogant, he’s a womaniser, he’s the dictionary definition of pampered but he’s also one of the best players to have ever played the game and is on the brink of legendary status.
5) Luis Suarez
Another incredibly talented individual who lit up the Premier League when at Liverpool with his immense skill and never say die attitude but the Patrice Evra incident, the biting palaver have forever altered Suarez’s public perception.
4) Roy Keane
A natural born leader on the field and a conscientious pundit off it, Keane has seen his reputation as the hard-man turn him into a legend in the eyes of fans after he’s hung up his boots.
However, a comical view of his history of thuggery can only go so far – just see the Alf-Inge Haaland incident to discover why so many fans have Keane in their bad books.
3) John Terry
Mr Chelsea used to have the public eating out of the palm of his hand and was the England captain and lionheart.
However, ever since those Wayne Bridge accusations, the Anton Ferdinand racism, the England World Cup mutiny, the putting on his kit to lift the Champions League trophy; Terry has turned into a player who is seemingly loved by Chelsea fans and despised by everyone else.
2) Joey Barton
Every facet of Barton seems to be contentious, whether it be his intellectual, public persona whereby he quotes philosophers on Twitter and appears on Question Time or his on-field persona where he seen as a tough tackling but at times psychotic ankle smashing bruiser.
1) Robbie Savage
Mr Marmite himself – Savage was respected, somewhat, as a player for his tenacious style and has been afforded numerous punditry gigs for his straight talking style.
However, the Welshman had a knack for getting players sent off and his continual outrage of incidents from the commentary box winds up fans when you consider Savage was guilty of the majority of sins he now chastises.