10 Biggest Mysteries in Football

10

United's men in black

In 2013, David Moyes was in the middle of a calamitous first summer at Manchester United. The Scott keen to reinforce his midfield had failed with an ambitious move for Cesc Fàbregas and turned his attentions to athletic bilbao and a herrera. On deadline day, the Press reported that United had three lawyers at San Mames negotiating for Herrera signature but a deal failed to materialize.

United claims that the lawyers were imposters in Spain without the club's knowledge and instead brought in demonic toilet brush marijuana fellaini. It turned out that United had made a low offer for Herrera. Despite Bilbao demanding the buyout clause be met and hired the lawyers to get the transfer over the line. After it all went to shit, they lied to cover their arses making the real mystery how Moyes lasted 10 months at Old Trafford.

9

Thomas Rosicky blows it

A wonderfully gifted footballer Thomas Rosicky is one of Arsenal's many what-if stories. The Czechs spent 10 years with the Gunners after joining from Borussia Dortmund in 2006 but was sidelined through injury for 990 days nearly three whole years. But there were rumors that resist he suffered from a slightly different problem.

Almost every Arsenal fan has a friend of a friend who claims that the little Mozart actually had a monster cocaine addiction and spent his time out not on the physios table but in rehab for his Blow habit. And with Ruiz its keys hair and metal-head musical tastes, it does seem at least a tiny bit plausible plus it would explain how he still had that burst of pace and energy at the ripe old age of 36 and after a career undeserving of his talent maybe super tom has earned a night on the rails.

8

Cristiano Ronaldo (Spanish Superstar)

Portugal's most capped player and all-time top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo ranks alongside Luis Figo and Eusebio as one of the nation's brightest stars and captained them to a first international trophy at Euro 2016. But in 2011, it seemed that Ronaldo might make the most controversial transfer in football history.

Report suggested that CR7 was on the verge switching his international allegiance to Spain with La Roja sending a hundred and sixty million pounds in the other direction to help resolve Portugal's enormous national debt. Of course FIFA regulations would have caused problems for such a move but that didn't stop newspapers and websites running with the story. Until they realized that the original source was the independent who had published the claims on April 1st.

7

Who stole the World Cup Trophy?

1966 is famous for England's World Cup win but there was almost no trophy for Bobby Moore to lift at Wembley. The Jaromir trophy was put on display in London in January of 1966 where it was meant to stay until the summer's tournament. But in March, espite stringent security measures, the trophy was stolen by persons unknown. The next day the head of the FA received a ransom note instructing him to place a coded message in the personal section of the Evening News and to ready a ransom payment of 15,000 pounds.

The police managed to catch the ransomer Edward betch Lee when he came to collect the money but betch Lee claimed he was working on behalf of someone called the pole and that he didn't have the cup. A few days later a dog called pickles found the trophy wrapped in newspaper and hidden in a hedge. The identity of the pole and how the cup ended up in the hedge in the first place have never been discovered.

6

Football's Greatest Conman

In 2004, Alessandro Zarrelli  was Italy's best young prospect. At least according to him, a low-quality midfielder Zarrelli wrote to clubs across the UK pretending to be an executive with the Italian Football Federation and offering the services of a promising youngster who had trained at Rangers. Using this method, Zarrelli  was able to play for 22 different clubs though he never made it to the big time. He requested weekly wages of 200 pounds and would stay in local hotels before disappearing without paying his bills when his lies were uncovered.

Eventually, the producers of a TV program tracked Zarrelli down and invited him to a meeting pretending to be scouts. After the Italian went through his usual routine, talking about spells at Rangers and Sheffield Wednesday, the producers revealed that they had hoaxed the hoaxer. Zarrelli is apparently still playing age thirty two having featured for six different teams in 2016 alone. It might be time to give up on the dream alessandro. 

5

Taribo West, Ageless Vampire 

Age fraud has a long and depressing history in Nigeria with one former head of the country's football federation admitting that the Super Eagles had used overage players to win youth competitions and defender to Rebo West who earned 42 caps for Nigeria has been regularly accused of doctoring his age. The center-back played for both meal and clubs and won Olympic gold with his country but a former executive at Partizan,

Belgrade said that when they signed West in 2002. He turned out not to be 28th as he claimed but 40. A proposed moved Croatian side Rijeka reportedly failed for the same reason and despite West's denials doubts remain. But he's not the only one. One Cokeon who won the Champions League with AI axe in 1995 but maintained that he is still just 40 years old. Harry Redknapp car iddle news boss at portsmouth guessed that the big man was 49 way back in 2010.

4

Cristiano Ronaldo's Test-tube Baby

Cristiano Ronaldo has obsessively crafted himself into one of the world's greatest athletes over more than a decade in the game but he seems to have put the same effort into engineering a son as outstanding as he is. Cristiano jr. was born in 2010 in the USA ensuring that the child will have American citizenship. But the identity of the boy's mother has remained shrouded in secrecy with English students, American waitresses and a raft of supermodels all mooted as possibilities and rumors of 10 million pounds paid in hush money.

Ronaldo admits that his son doesn't know who his mother is and documentary footage shows that CR7 is already trying to turn the boy into a superior physical specimen by Making the six-year-old perform press ups and sit ups and of course dressing him just like daddy.

3

Spurs Cough Up Forth

Tottenham looked like they had finally beaten Arsenal to fourth spot in 2006. Going into the final day of the league campaign, Spurs needed to match the Gunners result to take the last Champions League spot and condemn their rivals to Thursday nights in the with a cup. But the night before the last game, almost the entire Spurs squad got food poisoning from their hotel restaurant with the lasagna the chief suspect.

They tumbled to defeat against West Ham the next day while Arsenal won 4-2 and North London was read again. Desperate to overturn the result, the cub calling the police to investigate the incident suspecting that their food had been spiked by guna saboteurs. But despite providing the lucky coppers with blood and urine samples Spurs complaints failed to sway the FA. Tests failed to reveal any evidence of tampering.

2

Mystery in Moldova

In January 2009, Arsenal were third in the Premier League and fans were looking for a transfer boost which could drive them onto the title step forward The Times who published a list of football's top 50 rising stars naming Messiah bugged of at number 30.

A 16 year old Moldovan who was reportedly on the brink of joining the Gunners and before long the bug dog hypetrain was up to top speed with the youngster on his way to London with a bunch of international caps in one hand and the Champions League trophy in the other. Unfortunately, it turned out that bug dove was not Arsenal Savior but totally made up a bullshit phantom cooked up on internet forums. Bug dog's name was actually a play on the Irish for little black donkey.

1

Fit or a Fiddle?

The World Cup in 1998 saw huge excitement build in Paris. The hosts had reached the final where they would meet Brazil and the world's most feared striker the 21 year old Ronaldo who had scored four and assisted three on the way to the stat of France. However on the night before the match, Ronaldo suffered a convulsive fit frothing at the mouth and shaking with teammate Cesar Sampaio having to stop him from swallowing his tongue. 

The forward did start the final but looked off the pace as Brazil slumped to a 3-0 defeat. The player never had a fit before or after and as a consequence conspiracy theories spread through the football world. Some claimed that Ronaldo was drugged while others said he was forced to play in the final by Nike booth and to end his sponsorship deal.

One popular idea was that Brazil were bribed by FIFA losing on purpose in exchange for an easy draw at the 2002 tournament and the promise of hosting the World Cup within 20 years. But the most likely explanation became clear as Renaldo's career was hobbled by knee problems are nine struggling during the competition could have been given a dose of the drug xylocaine whose side effects can include seizures.