‘The Stopper’ in action (Photo: Press Association)
Former Liverpool and Leicester City goalkeeper Pegguy Arphexad has finally responded to a long-standing internet rumour about his purported post-football career as an adult film star.
As the rumour in question had it, Arphexad starred in a porn movie under the pseudonym ‘The Stopper’ after retiring from football in 2005.
Now aged 42, the Frenchman has finally decided to address the rumours in a chat with the Leicester Mercury.
Turns out it’s complete hogwash. Who’d have guessed?
Look, this is a bad rumour. It’s been going round a long time.
One English guy wrote on the internet years and years ago that I was doing this and now people say to me: ‘Hey, are you making porn films?’
I haven’t made any porn films, okay. I don’t do that. I work for a sports insurance company. That’s what I do.
Put it in your paper – I don’t do porn films, just insurance, okay?
It really doesn’t get much less sexy than that.