Top 10 worst Premier League haircuts

No10: Barry Venison

Life was different in the early days of the Premier League – football was more about substance than style. Yet, Newcastle and Southampton midfielder Venison bucked the short-back-and-sides trend with his monstrous mullet. Unsurprisingly, it failed to catch on in the top flight.

No9: Ivan Campo

When Campo swapped the high life with Real Madrid for the less glamorous surroundings of Bolton, he was also expected to lose his Spanish perm. But, all credit to the midfielder, he persevered with his frizzy bob – and let’s be honest, who was going to argue with him?

No8: David Seaman

While the secret to Samson’s strength was his hair, the longer Seaman’s locks grew, the more dodgy he became. The Arsenal keeper’s ponytail sunk to its lowest depth at the 2002 World Cup – dangling behind him as he desperately failed to claw out Ronaldinho’s freak free-kick that knocked England out.

No7: Taribo West

The hardman defender was already renowned for his ever-changing beaded hair before he parked up at Derby. But the Nigeria star did not disappoint in the Premier League as he continued with his own unique style. Sadly, his performances on the pitch were nowhere near as eye-catching as his barnet.

No6: Djibril Cisse

Hats off to Cisse – he clearly doesn’t care what others things of his ever-changing crops. The French striker’s hair transformed on an almost weekly basis at Liverpool but this work of art was the pick of the bunch. Sunderland fans can expect more of the same after his recent arrival.

No5: Joe Cole

Cole’s shock trim came and went as quickly as one of his mazy runs. Back in his days at West Ham, the midfielder stepped out for a pre-season friendly at Southend with a shaved head. Nothing wrong with that – apart from the inch-thick trail of bright red hair that ran from his forehead to the back of his neck.

No4: David James

The keeper has had his fair share of dodgy barnets over the years, so selecting just one was no easy task. The bleached perm and cornrows both stood out but the main prize has to go to his curious side-parting. James looked like he had walked straight into Fratton Park from the 1950s.

No3: Javier Margas

The Chilean’s dire contribution during his brief spell at West Ham would have been long forgotten had it not been for his nightmare hair. In a bid to earn the fans’ respect, the defender dyed his hair in the Hammers’ claret and blue. Great idea in theory – but not when you end up looking like Margas did.

No2: Abel Xavier

The Portugal international was loud and proud when it came to his cut. During his time at Liverpool, Everton and Middlesbrough, you couldn’t miss Xavier for his bleached buffon. And fair play to the defender because he never gave up on the style while those around him fell about in fits of giggles.

No1: Jason Lee

Was Lee’s haircut the worst? Maybe not. But the reason why he has top this list is that the hair actually became more famous than the man himself. Chants of “He’s got a pineapple on his head” followed the Nottingham Forest striker around the country and his form undoubtedly nosedived because of it.

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Top 10 Man-Made Disasters of 2007

10. Congo Train Derailment

Eight cars fell off the tracks and seven of them rolled over when the brakes failed on a passenger train traveling between the cities of Ilebo and Kananga on Aug. 1. Train crews had to unhitch the locomotive and go in search of help, and the injured were carried to a hospital six miles away on bicycles and on people's backs. By the time recovery crews pulled the last bodies from the wreckage, the death toll stood at about 100.

9. Mozambique Munitions Explosion

A stockpile of old ammunition, stored at a Mozambican army facility in the outskirts of the city of Maputo, blew up on Mar. 22, triggering fires and killing 117 people. According to the Mozambique Red Cross, heavy traffic in the area hampered the organizations attempts to rush volunteers to the site.

8. Siberia Mine Explosion

Many of Russia's coal mines are aging, dilapidated and dangerous. The Ulyanovskaya mine, by contrast, located in the Kemerovo region of Siberia, about 2,000 miles east of Moscow, was less than five years old, and had modern safety features. None of that, however, was enough to prevent a massive methane explosion from ripping through the mine on Mar. 19, collapsing tunnels as the blast wave radiated from an epicenter nearly 900 ft. down. Working their way through smoke and flooded shafts, rescuers got more than 90 miners safely out — making the death toll of 107 a lot lower than it could easily have been.

7. North Korea Oil Pipe Explosion

The fanatically secretive North Korean government rarely reports internal problems, so it fell to aid organizations to get the news out: On June 9, an aging oil pipeline sprung a leak in North Pyongyang province. Local residents in the fuel-starved country rushed in to scavenge what they could — and then the oil caught on fire and exploded. At a minimum, 110 people died, but it's unlikely that the government will ever acknowledge the incident at all.

6. Utah Mine Collapse

For days afterward, mine owner Robert Murray insisted that it had been an earthquake — and indeed, seismologists confirmed that the earth had moved near Huntington, Utah, on Aug. 6. But the quake didn't cause the Crandall Canyon coal mine to collapse, trapping six miners inside. The quake was the collapse, as the mine, its walls weakened by decades of coal removal, gave way. Ten days later, three rescuers were killed by a second collapse, and shortly after that, attempts to reach the trapped men by drilling down from above were called off. The mine was sealed in October.

5. Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

Bridges failed this year in China and in Guinea, killing 64 and 70 people, respectively. But the disaster that really grabbed U.S. headlines was the collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis on Aug. 1, where the death toll reached only 9. The attention wasn't due only to Americans' interest in news that's closest to home. Rather, it was that the occurrence seemed so impossible: We think of our highways and other infrastructure as being so well built and so rigorously inspected and maintained as to be immune from such dramatic and sudden disintegration. But this tragedy probably resulted from a design imperfection when the bridge was built, followed by four decades of harsh weather and road salt, proving that nothing is failsafe.

4. Yangtze River Dolphin Extinction

The Chinese called it baiji and "goddess of the Yangtze," and it was the only surviving member of a family of species that split off from saltwater whales and dolphins between 20 million and 40 million years ago. But now, according to a survey released in August, this rare freshwater mammal is almost certainly extinct — the first aquatic vertebrate species to disappear from the Earth in 50 years, and the first large mammal to fall victim to human impact. The multiple pressures: noisy boat collisions and dam construction that may have imperiled the sonar-driven animals, and overfishing — not for the dolphins themselves, but for river fish — with such indiscriminate techniques as netting, dynamite and powerful electric shocks. The disappearance of a top-level predator like the baiji — an indicator species that signals the health of its ecosystem — portends trouble for the Yangtze River and for the 400 hundred million people who depend on it.

3. Southern California Forest Fires

California has been ravaged by wildfires for thousands of years; they're an essential part of the natural ecosystem. But the fires that burned hundreds of square miles between Oct. 20 and Nov. 6 — at the disaster's peak, 18 separate fires were burning, the worst of them in San Diego County — killing 10 people and forcing at least half a million more from their homes, weren't entirely natural. At least one, the Santiago Canyon blaze, was deliberately set, while two others — the Witch and Rice Canyon fires — were caused by downed power lines that ignited surrounding brush. Whether that brush should have been more thoroughly cleared, and whether people should be permitted to build homes in remote, fire-prone areas, are now matters of active debate, to say nothing of lawsuits.

2. Brazil Plane Crash

Aviators call São Paolo's Congonhas Airport "the aircraft carrier," because landing on its notoriously short runway, surrounded by densely populated residential areas, is as touchy as trying to put down on the deck of a ship at sea. Though a Brazilian court had banned large jets from the airport in February, citing safety concerns, the ban was later overturned. On July 17, the pilot of TAM Airlines Flight JJ3054, tried to land at Congonhas, but realizing he wouldn't be able to stop in time on the rain-slicked tarmac, tried to take off again. He failed. The Airbus A320 skidded across a road, smashed into a gas station and then into a building owned by the airline. The ensuing fireball killed all 186 people on the plane and 13 more on the ground, making this the worst air disaster in Brazilian history.

1. Global Warming

Nobody doubts anymore that climate change is at least in part man-made. And even if the effects of global warming remain at the most benign end of the predicted range, it will be a disaster of unprecedented proportions. For years, that disaster has been unfolding so slowly that it's been invisible. But now you can see it: Mountain glaciers around the world are melting, along with North polar sea ice and the ice cap atop Greenland; droughts are baking the U.S. southwest, Australia and sub-Saharan Africa; floods are devastating Bangladesh; and Central America is reeling from powerful hurricanes. Not all of these events can be tied absolutely to global warming, but all of them will surely become more frequent and intense as the world warms — ultimately threatening the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people.

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The FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives in 2008

10. MICHAEL JASON REGISTE

MICHAEL JASON REGISTE IS WANTED FOR HIS ALLEGED PARTICIPATION IN A DOUBLE HOMICIDE IN COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ON JULY 20, 2007, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS RESPONDED TO A SHOOTING INCIDENT IN WHICH TWO MALES SITTING INSIDE A TRUCK HAD SUFFERED EXECUTION-STYLE GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE BACK OF THEIR HEADS. ONE OF THE VICTIMS DIED AT THE SCENE AND THE OTHER DIED SHORTLY AFTERWARD.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Michael Jason Registe.

9. ALEXIS FLORES

ALEXIS FLORES IS WANTED FOR HIS ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN THE KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. THE GIRL WAS REPORTED MISSING IN LATE JULY OF 2000, AND LATER FOUND STRANGLED TO DEATH IN A NEARBY APARTMENT IN EARLY AUGUST OF 2000.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Alexis Flores.

8. VICTOR MANUEL GERENA

VICTOR MANUEL GERENA IS BEING SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH THE ARMED ROBBERY OF APPROXIMATELY $7 MILLION FROM A SECURITY COMPANY IN CONNECTICUT IN 1983. HE ALLEGEDLY TOOK TWO SECURITY EMPLOYEES HOSTAGE AT GUNPOINT AND THEN HANDCUFFED, BOUND AND INJECTED THEM WITH AN UNKNOWN SUBSTANCE IN ORDER TO FURTHER DISABLE THEM.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to one million dollars for information leading directly to the arrest of Victor Manuel Gerena.

7. GLEN STEWART GODWIN

GLEN STEWART GODWIN IS BEING SOUGHT FOR HIS 1987 ESCAPE FROM FOLSOM STATE PRISON IN CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE WAS SERVING A LENGTHY SENTENCE FOR MURDER. LATER IN 1987, GODWIN WAS ARRESTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING IN PUERTA VALLARTA, MEXICO. AFTER BEING CONVICTED, HE WAS SENT TO A PRISON IN GUADALAJARA. IN APRIL OF 1991, GODWIN ALLEGEDLY MURDERED A FELLOW INMATE AND THEN ESCAPED FIVE MONTHS LATER.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Glen Stewart Godwin.

6. EMIGDIO PRECIADO JR.

EMIGDIO PRECIADO JR. IS WANTED FOR AN ATTACK ON TWO LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT DEPUTIES ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2000, IN WHITTIER, CALIFORNIA, DURING A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP. PRECIADO FIRED TWENTY-ONE ROUNDS FROM AN ASSAULT RIFLE, STRIKING ONE OF THE DEPUTIES IN THE HEAD.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Emigdio Preciado Jr.

5. ROBERT WILLIAM FISHER

ROBERT WILLIAM FISHER IS WANTED FOR ALLEGEDLY KILLING HIS WIFE AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN AND THEN BLOWING UP THE HOUSE IN WHICH THEY ALL LIVED IN SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA IN APRIL OF 2001.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Robert William Fisher.


4. JASON DEREK BROWN

JASON DEREK BROWN IS WANTED FOR MURDER AND ARMED ROBBERY IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA. DURING NOVEMBER OF 2004, BROWN ALLEGEDLY SHOT AND KILLED AN ARMORED CAR GUARD OUTSIDE A MOVIE THEATER AND THEN FLED WITH THE MONEY.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Jason Derek Brown.


3. JAMES J. BULGER

JAMES J. BULGER IS BEING SOUGHT FOR HIS ROLE IN NUMEROUS MURDERS COMMITTED FROM THE EARLY 1970s THROUGH THE MID-1980s IN CONNECTION WITH HIS LEADERSHIP OF AN ORGANIZED CRIME GROUP THAT ALLEGEDLY CONTROLLED EXTORTION, DRUG DEALS, AND OTHER ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES IN THE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AREA. HE HAS A VIOLENT TEMPER AND IS KNOWN TO CARRY A KNIFE AT ALL TIMES.

The FBI is offering a $2,000,000 reward for information leading directly to the arrest of James J. Bulger.


2. JORGE ALBERTO LOPEZ-OROZCO

JORGE ALBERTO LOPEZ-OROZCO IS WANTED FOR ALLEGEDLY SHOOTING TO DEATH THREE PEOPLE IN ELMORE COUNTY, IDAHO. THE CHARRED REMAINS OF A WOMAN AND HER TWO YOUNG SONS, AGED TWO AND FOUR, WERE FOUND INSIDE A BURNED OUT VEHICLE ON AUGUST 11, 2002. EACH VICTIM WAS SHOT IN EITHER THE HEAD OR THE CHEST.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco.



1. USAMA BIN LADEN

USAMA BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA, AND NAIROBI, KENYA. THESE ATTACKS KILLED OVER 200 PEOPLE. IN ADDITION, BIN LADEN IS A SUSPECT IN OTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Usama Bin Laden. An additional $2 million is being offered through a program developed and funded by the Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.

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