A very quick look on Google gave me a website that lists 519 ways in which a person can refer to masturbation and yet I still feel so utterly unprepared to write an article about a club sacking four players for "pulling the goalie", although I've no idea if the keeper was involved.
There's been very many ways in which footballers have come up short to their club's code of conduct, most of them have been done by Joey Barton but as far as I'm aware this one hasn't even been done by Barton.
Fights in training are more than the usual, turning up late or not at all are punishable of course, driving yourself to get a new club when your team haven't said you can go only leads to embarrassment and testing positive for cocaine is definitely a sackable offence.
Literally no idea what pictures to put in this article but here's Joey Barton, even he's not done this one- which is saying something. Image: PA
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What you wouldn't necessarily think is a sackable offence is taking time out of your day to choke the chicken. The problem comes, if you'll excuse the pun, when you do it in the changing rooms...with three teammates...and it's being filmed!
Sport Clube Gaucho sacked four players after a video of them enjoying themselves in the team dressing room came to light. Club president Gilmar Rosso told Globo Esporte, via AS, about the sackings saying:
"When I hit play, I deleted it, I think it's disgusting. Outside business hours, we have nothing to do with the situation. If they want to get drunk, [be] gay or not, that's their problem.
"What I have to answer as president is during a trip, office hours. That's my responsibility. The club is not a keeper of morals and good manners. The only thing we have to answer to is the making of the video inside the club dressing room."
I do hope the benches inside the Campeonato Gaucho Serie B side's changing room was more comfortable to yank the chain in that Sutton's dressing room. Image: PA
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It's good to know that "galloping the old lizard", nope I've no idea either but I've got a list of 519 to pick from, isn't a sackable offence itself but it's the fact it was on club property.
The president did also confirm that it was to save the players embarrassment at the hands of the fans, though one might argue after a video of them mutually masturbating went viral the embarrassment was at their own hands...
That is one seriously wank reason to get sacked! I could only go so long, like the chaps on the video no doubt...
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