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HAIR’S A THOUGHT…

JON WAKEHAM laments the lack of bald players in the Premier League

Stephen Ireland

Brad Friedel

Wayne Rooney

James Collins

Something was bothering me about the Premier League for a long time. It wasn’t just the vast amounts of cash sloshing around, the billionaire owners sacking managers at the merest hint of a drop in form, or executives telling us what a great ‘product’ it was. No, it was the apparent lack of bald players.
Speaking as a bald man for whom some item of ill-fitting headwear is now an essential part of the match-day experience, I feel an immed...

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