English league footballers admit they could have a different girl every night in their celebrity lifestyles.
”It wasn’t as often as a different girl every night, but it could have been,” Scotland striker Frank McAvennie, who moved to London in 1985 when West Ham signed him from St Mirren, recounts in a new book, Playing Away: The A-Z of Soccer Sex Scandals.
”Frank was mobbed wherever he went, even in Marks and Spencer,” Anita, his girlfriend at the time, said. ”We used to go on holiday to places like Ibiza and there would be one topless girl after another coming to talk to him as if I wasn’t there.”
Former Portsmouth and Newcastle striker Micky Quinn was another Eighties star with a regular supply of goals and girls.
”Women would throw themselves at me,” he says. ”I felt like Rod Stewart. When I was at Portsmouth I actually had four birds on the go at one time. They were all barmaids, which says a lot about the life I was leading.”
Dwight Yorke was sold to Blackburn Rovers when Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson finally lost patience with the strikers socialising.
Shortly after moving to Old Trafford in 1998, the Trinidad and Tobago international teamed up with Mark Bosnich, his former Aston Villa colleague, for an orgy with four women that he videoed.
Anxious to avoid detection, he threw the tape into his rubbish bin, but it still ended up in the hands of a national newspaper, which printed a picture on its front page.
But Yorke was not known to everyone. He convinced one of his nightclub conquests that he was a postman named Brian.
”People were coming past and saying hello to him, and he said it was because he delivered their letters. I believed him. He seemed a lovely bloke,” she said. — Sapa-AFP