Top 10 Footballers On Strike

Chris Wright

30th, November 2011

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By Chris Wright

With the public sector strikes rattling on today across the country, we at Pies thought it would be timely to have a little look at a run-down of some of football’s industrial action over the years – some worthy, some really not…

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1. The France 2010 World Cup squad - Striking is a national pastime in France, but their national team put on a world class display in South Africa last summer. First of all, Les Bleus were tres, tres merde from the start. They soon coupled this with dressing room unrest, accusations of abuse, player expulsions, training boycotts, training scuffles, bus lock-ins, monumental government inquests and a set of huge bans for most of those involved. Voila!

Any glaring omissions? Feel free to tell me how useless I am in the comments box below folks…