Including a certain Chuckle Brother…

With Sol Campbell back at Arsenal, it got The Spoiler to thinking about all of the players who have returned to their old clubs for another stab at the big time. Below is a compiled team of those who couldn’t quite put the past behind them. 

Just missing the cut were: Robbies Fowler and Keane, Mark Hughes, Peter Crouch, David Dunn, Jermain Defoe, John Lukic, Paul Parker and Martin Keown. Can you think of any more? Let us know with a comment.

Goalkeeper, Mark Bosnich (Manchester United 1989-1992, 1999-2001)

Unfortunately for Mark Bosnich, his second bite of the Man United cherry was probably even more bitter than the first. First time around he managed just three matches, and missed out on the squads that tasted success in the FA and European Cup Winner’s cups, and during his second stay, his chips were rather urinated on by the clown-prince of keepers, Fabien Barthez. He went on to supermodel-and-drugs notoriety.

These men just couldn’t stay away…

In the biblical tale of the Prodigal Son, a young man ventures to the big city to fill up on wine and hookers before going home to lead a normal domestic life as an accountant, or something. In some ways, it’s exactly the same tale as that of Shaun Wright-Phillips and Manchester City, only without the fatted calf, the hookers, the wine… the bible. But no matter.

This, along with Heskey’s suspected return to Liverpool, got The Spoiler to thinking, and by the time we’d polished off our lunchtime amuse bouche followed by soup, we’d pretty much compiled a team made up of returning players. All with varying degrees of success.

In goal, we went for everyone’s favourite drug-eating maniac, Mark Bosnich.