Most hated sports player

[Schrodingers Cat]

AIDS Murphy, aye.

For non-snooker fans, why is he hated so much? I know nothing of snooker, but even I know he's considered a twat. (I could google I suppose, but it seems more fun to find out from someone who really hates him)

[bgmnts]

Is it partially because he's fat? We still don't really love fat people in society do we?

How can he be more hated than John 'Brown Envelope' Higgings??

[DrGreggles]

How can he be more hated than John 'Brown Envelope' Higgings??

Oh, come on. We've all shat in an envelope at some point.

[Blue Jam]

[bgmnts]

Nothing wrong with starting a discourse.

[EOLAN]

Dave Whelan. Should have elicited some sympathy for reminiscing about his career ending injury in a Cup final, but instead used his new privileged position to wrongly blacken the name of his opposition adversary who was more sinned at than sinning in that final.

[DrGreggles]

Is that a poll for aborting Shaun Murphy?

[bigfatheart]

Roy Keane said in one of his autobiographies that he regretted acting the hard man and playing through injuries when it would have benefited both himself and the team in the long term if he'd taken that bit more time to fully recover. Then he went into coaching and publicly accused players of being soft and not being committed for wanting to take the time to fully recover from injuries instead of playing through them. Hypocritical jeb-end more interested in maintaining his image as a hard man than in talking any actual sense.

Also, Patrick Bamford.

[Ferris]

Roy Keane said in one of his autobiographies that he regretted acting the hard man and playing through injuries when it would have benefited both himself and the team in the long term if he'd taken that bit more time to fully recover. Then he went into coaching and publicly accused players of being soft and not being committed for wanting to take the time to fully recover from injuries instead of playing through them. Hypocritical jeb-end more interested in maintaining his image as a hard man than in talking any actual sense.

Also, Patrick Bamford.

Yes to both of these.

[chveik]

Patrice Evra.

[pigamus]

For non-snooker fans, why is he hated so much? I know nothing of snooker, but even I know he's considered a twat. (I could google I suppose, but it seems more fun to find out from someone who really hates him)

He's one of those 'speak as you find, call a spade a spade' types who's basically just a self-important prick. Also a God-botherer.

[Lord Mandrake]

He was mimicking Gazza, wasn't he?

I thought he was doing a peacock, an SS peacock with a mullet. It felt like he was claiming Wembley for the third Reich.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Never met anyone who's had a good word to say about Dave Beasant.

[Spode]

Lleyton Hewitt and his backwards cap.

[Poobum]

Eugenie Bouchard, throws so much shade for being absolutely crap.

[MattD]

He's one of those 'speak as you find, call a spade a spade' types who's basically just a self-important prick. Also a God-botherer.

Despite his holier than thou attitude, he also cheated on his wife. She was seething from his awful behaviour that I believe there were plans for her to hand him divorce papers while he was playing at the Crucible.

[biggytitbo]

Shaun Murphy by personality and Martin Gould by body count.

[Jockice]

David Seaman. Dumped his wife for a more glamorous model, then forgot his son's birthday. And worst of all, grew a ponytail.

[selectivememory]

Eugenie Bouchard, throws so much shade for being absolutely crap.

I forgave her for everything when she said Sharapova was a cheater who shouldn't be allowed to play tennis again, and then beat her a couple of weeks later. I didn't even agree that Sharapova was technically a cheater (rather than just a bit dumb, dishonest and negligent), but it was a hilariously cunty thing to say.

John Isner is my pick for this, naturally. A man whose playing style is so shit they've actually changed the rules for everyone at Wimbledon because of him. Also has terrible politics and pals around with the likes of Sean Hannity. 

[Blue Jam]

Despite his holier than thou attitude, he also cheated on his wife. She was seething from his awful behaviour that I believe there were plans for her to hand him divorce papers while he was playing at the Crucible.

Also this:

http://snookerscene.blogspot.com/2008/09/maguire-and-murphy-like-chalk-and.html?m=1

Twat.

[Ferris]

David Seaman. Dumped his wife for a more glamorous model, then forgot his son's birthday. And worst of all, grew a ponytail.

LEGEND DAVE

[holyzombiejesus]

Mark 'Steino' Stein. Not only is he a tosser, he also, apparently, wears a tosser's hat.

Paul Peschisolido. Ill mannered, death-penalty supporting braggart. Once stuck the Vs up at the Vale Park faithful just because we had the temerity to chant 'what's it like to shag a slag?' at him.

Was going to nominate Jonathan Walters due to him being all chuffed when the tories won the 2015 election (and tweeting his congratulations to Cameron (David, not Geoff)) but apparently he now says that these were 'poorly educated tweets' and has subsequently given his support to Labour.

[Dex Sawash]

Usain Bolt's penis

[bigfatheart]

Leon Best. I can forgive shit players - I've been supporting Derby for 22 years, I've seen enough of them - but to be so unremittingly shit while strutting around like you're too good for the place? Scored more goals for us when playing for Southampton than he actually did while playing for us.

Danny Mills. Shit player, shit pundit. Every bit as ill-informed as Paul Merson or any other pundit who's solely there to be laughed at, but he's well-spoken enough to have an air of respectability.

Ian Holloway. Cheating little twat. I remember him saying it wasn't his fault when Millwall got relegated because he'd been sacked by the time they mathematically went down. He was sacked halfway through March and they were 23rd, I think it's fair to say some of it might be your fault, Ian.

Phil Brown, Paul Jewell, Paul Clement, Nigel Pearson. All shit.

Sean Dyche. Played the 'it all evens itself out over the season' card when Kieran Trippier got a player of ours sent off by diving*. Now he's in the Premier League he's the number one campaigner against diving. Funny how quickly some people change their tune once they're in the media spotlight.

*OK, two yellow cards, one of which came after Trippier dived. And that player of ours was Chris Martin, who dives all the time. My point still stands.

James Maddison. Gave it the big one after he dived to win a dodgy penalty against us when he was at Norwich, used his post-match interview to go on about how it was all jealousy and it's just gamesmanship, etc etc. Got caught diving after moving to the Premier League and suddenly starts tweeting about how he'd never do it again, how he's not that sort of player. Funny how quickly some people etc etc.

[Lord Mandrake]

Luis Moreno. Kicked the ever loving fuck out of an injured barn owl.

[Blue Jam]

David Seaman. Dumped his wife for a more glamorous model, then forgot his son's birthday. And worst of all, grew a ponytail.

Similarly: Stephen Hendry. Left his wife for a woman half his age, then used some creative accounting to try and hide his millions from his ex-wife and their kids. Also allegedly did fuck-all to support the snooker career of his nephew, James Cahill, despite Cahill being best mates with one of Hendry's kids and presumably round his house quite a bit.

Despite all that, I still find Shaun "AIDS" Murphy infinity more loathsome.

[Jockice]

Similarly: Stephen Hendry. Left his wife for a woman half his age, then used some creative accounting to try and hide his millions from his ex-wife and their kids. Also allegedly did fuck-all to support the snooker career of his nephew, James Cahill, despite Cahill being best mates with one of Hendry's kids and presumably round his house quite a bit.

Despite all that, I still find Shaun "AIDS" Murphy infinity more loathsome.

And his first wife was called Mandy Tart. Which is a superb name

[Famous Mortimer]

Despite his holier than thou attitude, he also cheated on his wife. She was seething from his awful behaviour that I believe there were plans for her to hand him divorce papers while he was playing at the Crucible.

Didn't this actually happen at some tournament or other? Or are we both referring to the same incident?

[Blue Jam]

Didn't this actually happen at some tournament or other? Or are we both referring to the same incident?

I think it almost happened, but Murphy's wife was refused entry, and her parents got in but were asked to leave. Lovely bloke...

[Jasha]

No Alan Pardew gif yet?