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Your footballing smugshots just keep flooding in, and to be honest we can't get enough.

The world's greatest footballers may be off sunning themselves on far flung foreign beaches but we want you to hunt them down and keep on sending us some of the best examples of arms-around-the-shoulders camaraderie that money just can't buy.

We admit that the idea was inspired by our Travel section and its forum for smug holiday pics, but we thought we could do better and, boy, you have proved us right.

In fact, your overwhelming response has forced us to open up a third gallery for you to fill all over again. But fear not, all your old favourites are safely tucked away in our archive if you want to revisit them. This time we really want you to outdo each other - a photographic Top Trumps if you will.

So if you and Michael Ballack have shared a heated exchange over that final sweaty Spanish sunbed, or if you and Steven Gerrard have spent a lazy summer night on the Algarve putting the world to rights, then we want to see the evidence.

For some inspiration we thought you'd like the picture above of Phil Brown, the Hull City manager, who wishes he hadn't had a haircut after being measured for a top hat at Epsom this year. Tim Ruffle and Soccer AM's Helen Chamberlain try to be sympathetic.

More of the same please.

E-mail your pictures to: sport@timesonline.co.uk

Click "continue reading" to see your pictures, including when Laurence Weir met Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles. Shame it wasn't in the "Coop for Tottingham" ...

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Now we know what happened to Kevin Campbell - after he hung up his boots, he carved the top of his head off and planted himself in a gro-bag until he was 8-feet tall. Still, nice to see he has lost none of his sense of footballer's fashion. Here he is in London with Darrell Reynolds on the right and Darnell Walker on the left after a day at Royal Ascot.

Darnell gets about a bit, doesn't he. Now he's cosying up to Dwight Yorke in front of a giant banana at the Panacea in Manchester. The other fella is Jeffrey Jacobs, who Darnell advised us to crop out of the photo. With friends like that ...

And here's the last one from Darnell for now, although I have a tiny suspicion he'll be cropping up again later in the smugs. This time, Kevin Nolan feels the love at Aintree on Ladies Day this year. Racing buddy Darrell Reynolds is on the right celebrating a winner.

It's a dirty job, eh Frank?

Security wasn't quite so rigid back in 2001, as Dan Jackson proved when he sneaked onto the pitch in Athens after England had just beaten Greece 2-0.

Play it again, Dan. Here's Jackson on the beach in Casablanca with the France team in May 1998, days before they won the World Cup.

"This is the age of the train," said Jimmy Saville and John Carew takes up the mantle, leaving behind the Bentley in favour of the 4.15 to Birmingham. The curiously ginger Norwegian is adopting a Dr Evil pose just in case anyone, including Ben Lucock, should bother him.

Harry Canning, his sons Joe and Harry and friend Eoin Gannon cosy up to the legendary Republic of Ireland striker Don Givens at the wonderfully named Ballyvary Blue Bombers club.

The Canning clan also try to sneak a ringer, in the shape of Ray Houghton, into their five-a-side team.

Eric Cantona is turning out to be a real smugshots favourite, in fact we at TOL Towers never tire of seeing his gnarled unsmiling features. Here, the great man manages to control his kung-fu urges in Barcelona despite Tom Coulton having the temerity to try accosting him in his native tongue.

David Villa may have terrorised defences at Euro 2008 but he looks like a scared little boy after getting a hug from Giles Nutkins in Valencia. Maybe if Giles had played centre half for England in the qualifiers it could have been a different story....

The normally indefatigable Italy manager Marcello Lippi looks slightly unnerved by the imposing presence of Stephen Burrell in Florence.

We have a hard and fast rule here at Smugshots: only footballers will make the wall of fame. But then we get sent this picture and my head is all a-whirl. I know I SHOULDN'T include it. I know he ISN'T a footballer. I know this could cost me my job. But it's worth the risk. We on Smugshots are sports fans after all and our football snobbery has to stop sometime. So here's Muhammad Ali in all his glory. I'll leave the story of the shot to Brett Venables, the smuggest smugger of them all: "Not quite football I know but I thought I’d 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 I’m 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 Ali’s 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 do some “sparring” with him. Great memories of a great man."

Avram Grant looks remarkably relaxed en route to Tel Aviv the day after being sacked by Chelsea - the multi-million pound pay-off may have helped. Arsenal fans Josh Grant (no relation), Gil Kersen and Jonny Line are quick to congratulate him on his departure.

A good deal. David Grant looks pretty smug after concluding business with former Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein.

Was it real or just a dream? Mick Groom's mind - and his picture - is a blur as he tries to remember the time that Cristiano Ronaldo wanted to play for Manchester United. By the way, what is that freakish cartoon on the great man's shirt? Answers on an e-card to sport@timesonline.co.uk.

The life of a footballer, eh? The money, the adulation, the yachts, the champagne. Here's Dennis Bergkamp in the car park at Brent Cross shopping centre with Shilpa Bailur.

Yossi Benayoun is happy to spend as much time as he can with Jake Pater and Simon Tunkel at the airport. I wonder if that was anything to do with the fact that the Liverpool midfielder was picking up his mother-in-law, who Jake sat next to on the plane back from Israel.

James Creedy sneaks in a quick picture with the feisty Neil Warnock at a dinner. Moments later, the Crystal Palace manager was sent to the hallway for "unsporting behaviour" and faces his next three dinners alone in the garden.

David Hayman and Thierry Henry hit it off during a 7-a-side charity game in New York's China Town.

Never one for big displays of emotion, Stuart Pearce gives it his best "I'd rather be anywhere else" pose at the Holland v France game during Euro 2008. Hardie, Barney, Ade and Phil seem slightly more enamoured'

Lee Blowers, right, is the man behind this little gem of a caption: "Me and my mates on holiday in Miami having it large with the legend that is Jermain Defoe. He was giving it the biggun' saying that he was gonna bang in 30 goals this season." Says it all really.

Lee's back with another beauty, this time he says: "Here's one of me and Nigel Reo-Coker out in Miami, check out his jacket proving that money can't buy style." This coming from the man with the open necked white shirt with matching white beaded necklace. Thanks Lee.

Lee's back for his hat-trick, "I'm kicking back with Tom Huddlestone, same night looking sharp in my River Island shirt and white bead combo, i got the impression he didn't like me at all, don't know why?" See above Lee.

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