4) Mark Bosnich impersonates Adolf Hitler
Another one of those “What the hell were you thinking” moments. In a match between Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur, Villa and former Manchester United keeper Mark Bosnich celebrated by offering Tottenham fans, comprised mainly of Jews, an Adolf Hitler impersonation, an action that was met with widespread disgust and criticism and ended with Bosnich getting a £1,000 fine from the FA.
This is the same player who was caught outside a strip club on the morning of his wedding and the very same player that Chelsea sacked for testing positive for cocaine use.
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If you ask me, Bosnich got off very lightly, considering the gravity of his offence.
3) Paolo Di Canio offers a Fascist salute to Lazio fans
Not to be outdone by Bosnich, ex-Lazio player and former Sunderland manager Paolo Di Canio was caught offering the Fascist salute to Lazio fans on a number of occasions, most prominent being in a match against Juventus in 2005.
A self-confessed fascist, Di Canio associated himself with the left-wing politics of the Lazio fans. For his fascist salute, he was banned for one match and fined £7,000.
Di Canio later went on record to say, “I will always salute as I did because it gives me a sense of belonging to my people… I saluted my people with what for me is a sign of belonging to a group that holds true values, values of civility against the standardisation that this society imposes upon us.”
