Sporting smugshots
OK, we've relented. Despite the ongoing success of our footballing smugshots we'd always insisted that the pictures feature only exponents of the beautiful game. But having seen this fabulous photo of Muhammad Ali on fighting form in 1982 we'd like to extend that invitation to pics of our readers with anyone famous from the world of sport.
So if you've had dinner with Daley Thompson, a pint with Kevin Pietersen or seen eye-to-eye with Eric Bristow, then we want to see the evidence.
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Continue reading to see your pictures including a hair-raising experience with Don King...
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Duncan Jarvis escapes with his life after reminding Enzo Maccarinelli of his comprehensive defeat to David Haye.
Another very topical smug this one. Deborah Fletcher gets up, close and personal with the Hitman just before his defeat to Floyd MayweatherJr. Thankfully his fortunes have improved immeasurably since then, no doubt due to a few of Deborah's training tips.
Rumbustious Don King is so weary at propping up Gerard Conway that his traditionally zingy hair appears to have lost it's usual lustre.
A very topical smug here, Simon Ong attempts to jab Joe Calzaghe in the ribs while the Welsh wizard isn't looking.
Tell us about the Honey mummy. Steve Hunt recoils in awe at Lloyd Honeyghan's fashion sense.
Dave Trigg insinuates that there may possibly have been alcohol involved at the Merrion Hotel in Dublin following the England Grand Slam game in 2003. Phil 'The Cat' Tufnell pleads not guilty
Ricky Hatton wonders why Dave Briant's nickname is Dingo.
A Zulfiqar (he didn't leave his first name) invites Danny Williams round to his house for tea. Hope he had a big fridge.
Stuart Jenkins encounters the Ginger Monster Neil Jenkins at the MGM Grand in Vegas the night before the Calzaghe/Hopkins fight. Stuart assures they're not related, but having seen the evidence we're not so sure.
We don't normally include pictures of our staff writers in the smugshots but I guess Rafa Nadal is slightly more famous than the rest of us. Here he makes Dr Mark Watson's day at Queens Club this year.
Marc Smith is back and on his best behaviour with a very dapper member of boxing royalty Frank Bruno. Now which one of you is security?
Lawrence Watson and friends bump into Freddie Flintoff, Steve Harmison, Simon Jones and Liam Plunkett in their student union bar. I know you missed out on Stanford's millions chaps but surely the ECB contract extends a little further than student beer prices?
Gina Lauland sent us a note bemoaning that her friends met Amir Khan on a night out she was supposed to be on, but then didn't tell us who they were. Still, they seem to having a lovely time without you Gina.
Here's an Olympic legend if ever we saw one, and he's collared Matthew Burnell in this smugshot. Linford, here wearing what can only be described as a "grandad cardigan", was at one stage the world's fastest man. Well unless my memory is deceiving me, he wasn't wearing one of those when he crossed the line first in Barcelona.
Marc Smith, right, must be a charming man. He might be about to land a straight left hand on David Haye, the former WBA, WBC, WBO cruiserweight champion of the world, but he's somehow managed to make the 'Hayemaker' look happy about it.
Marc's back again, but this time he's moved up in class. In this beauty of a smugshot, Marc's rubbing shoulders with the great Evander Holyfield, although he's brought a couple of mates for protection this time, and one of them appears to be moving in on Evander's left ear...
Now this one looks as though it might of been a good fight as Marc goes toe-to-toe with former super-middleweight world champion, Steve Collins.
Serena Williams clearly had a soft spot for Marc and she doesn't seem to mind that there's a man foraging around in her ponytail.
If they were to make a modern-day version of Braveheart, this photo would provide the producers with all the inspiration they could possibly need. Here we go...here we have Kenny Mitchell, with Scottish rugby legend Gavin Hastings and (here's the best bit) they're at Deacon Blue concert. Freeeedddooooommmm!
Paul Singh meets up with the mighty Smokin Joe Frazier and has his hand crushed for his troubles.
Pat Killian sent in so many pictures of himself with sporting stars that he'd painted that we almost lost count. But we settled on this nice shot of Gary Player looking particularly dapper in a black suit - natch.
We are not worthy. Dan Leigh shares a hug with Panamanian national treasure Roberto Duran. At least we hope it was a hug.
Another day, another boxing legend. Simon Stent gets up close and personal with Roy Jones Jr before the Calzaghe/Hopkins fight.
Our readership do seem to enjoy the company of the boxing fraternity. Mind you Mark Stevens has a good excuse as the great Maurice Hope was best man at his wedding in Antigua in 2004. We hope he was as handy with the ring as he was in it, Mark.
Lec McKnight seems a little surprised to meet Steven Gerrard. Or perhaps he was a little awestruck to also be in the company of Twisted Sister's Dee Snyder (left).
Chris Eubank, who appears to be wearing the suit of a larger man, hypnotises Jamil Bhatti outside the Emirates Mall in Dubai.
A second dose of Eubank. A 'proper gent', according to Ben Birch, who collared him at Victoria Station.
Perhaps unwisely, Adam Daly decides to go head-to-head with the legendary Barry McGuigan before the Calzaghe/Lacy fight in Las Vegas. Luckily Barry turned out to be 'a hell of a nice guy.'
Joe's dad Enzo looks slightly perturbed by the presence of Adam and an unnamed female friend before his son's weigh-in with Bernard Hopkins.
Clearly a man with good fight game connections, Adam even had the temerity to drag trainer Emmanuel Steward away from the attentions of three women on the dancefloor in Las Vegas.
We've saved the best until last. Adam describes Michael Gomez, recently beaten by Amir Khan, as 'nice but a bit of a nutter'. Can't think why, Adam.
Here we have Hollie Bostock, sporting a rather fetching pink number, with England World Cup-winner Jonny Wilkinson. Now we are reliably informed that this is as close as Hollie could get Jonny to the church you can see in the background...
Hollie's back again, this time with Lawrence Dallaglio.
A big thanks to Steven Clark for this beauty. Now either Steve either bumped into Rafa Benitez, after the Spaniard had been experimenting with latest weight-lifting 'proteins' or he came across WWF Legend The Undertaker...Steve said: "He was a thoroughly nice chap and just to put in to context how intimidating and scary he is I'm 6ft 3in and not exactly a wee lad. He was just massive!"
John Chua, left, and Alex Agboola get a whiff of a banana-camoflaged David Haye on London's Regent Street. Is that the longest bus in the world behind them?
Younus Chughtai gets some batting tips from his hero Owais Shah whilst having a net at the Lords Indoor School. Let's hope how to play in thick fog was one of them.
Frank Kenton does the impossible and raises a smile from the normally taciturn Nick Faldo. Faldo's caddy Fanny, Frank's wife Hana and daughter Aishah join in the giggles in Singapore.
Sam Watts can't believe his eyes, he's only getting the thumbs-up from the baddest man on the planet when Mike Tyson visited the Great John Street Hotel in Manchester.
Rebecca Power from Coventry sent in this little beauty: "I met Will Greenwood outside Cardiff Arms Park after Munster beat Toulouse in the HEC this year. As you can tell from the picture I was very drunk and I wish that I could remember our conversation. It was a perfect end to one of the best days of my life." Where there's a Will ...
There is nothing more to be said, after receiving this image and description: "Please find attached a photo of a certain Colin Charvis, formerly of Newport Dagons, Wales and the British & Irish Lions. He came on tour with the Cobham All Stars team (from Surrey) to a vets tournament in Prague held in May this year. Not only did he struggle with the pace of the game, he was a surprising light weight in the post match drinking activities. Here, he is flanked by me on the left and Ian 'Jonners' Johnson on the right. Doddie Weir also played for us, but was a little camera shy. Regards Pete 'Crime' Bartlett." Thanks very much, Crime.
Trevor Brennan, the former Toulouse lock, makes sure Alex Kaiser doesn't run away with the Heineken Cup. You'd have to be one brave man to try and take that off of Trev.
Darren Hawkins gets a wonderful view of Andrew Flintoff's shoulder while the England all rounder was preparing for the Kandy Test in Sri Lanka December 2003.
... oh, and here's Michael Vaughan's chin, thinks Darren.
Here's a lovely one sent in by Marcus Osborne, who says: "Adam Osborne, who plays for the Royal Selangor Club Under-9's in Kuala Lumpur, found time to pose for a picture with Mike Catt after giving him a few tips on how to tackle. Note Brian Moore's attractive elbow in the background!"
Well done to Jake Moeller who manages to get into the same shot as Mike Gatting at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Must have been a wide-angle lens.
Rahul Dravid, third from left, seems remarkably relaxed despite having a head growing out of his shoulder. I'll let Jagadish, the sender of this phot, explain: "I can be seen (sticking my head into the snap) between Martin Crowe (extreme left) and Rahul Dravid (3rd from left). The photo was taken at a restaurant we (a group of friends) had gone to. This was a day before the IPL started. Meeting us didn't exactly do good things for their side. They were first smashed all around the park by McCullum and then failed to make any sort of impact in the tournament."
Marius Roodt was on a night out in in a Johannesburg nightclub when he met Jaque Fourie shortly after the Springbok won the World Cup in France last year. Roodt admits to being "pretty drunk", though we're more concerned that he took this opportunity to promote possibly the dullest car on the road.
This picture is par for the course as far as smugshots go: Brian Lara meets Guy Locke and his chums on a golf course in Jamaica during England's last Test series in 2004. Guy says: "He was playing with Beefy and Viv and they wanted to play through us (obviously much better golfers than us hackers). We said OK if they had their picture taken with us. Beefy and Viv refused but Brian was a true gent."
Phil Tufnell looks like the cat that got the cream. Gina Laulund looks like the cream that got The Cat.
Students Andy, David and Rich gang up on poor, little, defenceless Amir Khan on a night out in Leeds.
David McDonald and Adam Fincham encounter Ricky Hatton in Tenerife maintaining a vigorous fitness regime - of one of the Happy Mondays, that is. "It was 4.30 in the afternoon and he was hammered," says Adam. We'd never have guessed.
Olly Dick miraculously emerges unscathed after getting into a grapple with Brian Moore, fresh from auditioning for a remake of 'The Wanderers', outside Bath rugby club.
Olly also found Dewi Morris in good humour after Bath "smashed" Saracens back in May 2008.
Hannah Theobald and her friend, Jennie Pott, after a few rum and cokes with some of the England lads - Kevin Pietersen, Michael Vaughan, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Strauss and Paul Nixon - taken in St Lucia during the cricket World Cup last year. However, England's atrocious performance on the field rather pales into insignificance compared to the fashion crime perpertrated by KP's canary yellow T-shirt with plunging neckline. Unforgivable.
To kick off here's a pic of Muhammad Ali in all his glory. We'll leave the story of the shot to Brett Venables, the smuggest smugger of them all: "Not quite football I know but I thought Iâd send it anyway. This photo was taken on Miami Beach in 1982, not long after Ali retired for good from the ring. My brother Mike is on the right and Iâm on the left. Ali was casually strolling along the 'strip' on his own and introduced himself to Mike who was out for an early morning stroll too. At Aliâs request (Mike mentioned that our parents staying in the nearby hotel were big fans), Mike fetched the rest of the family to meet him. We even managed to 'spar' with him. Great memories of a great man."
love the ali picture. what a legend of a man
Posted by: fooljahs | 9 Nov 2008 16:49:03
In the Evander Holyfield pic, that's not just anyone about to chew on his ear...looks like Scott Welch!
Posted by: Jonnyboy2310 | 3 Oct 2008 16:02:15