rinso

or a golf club round the head (think Riise and Bellamy!!)

robin_trott_hoof

Ha, even that didn't result in much of an injury!

wizz0

Imagine just before a big game you get a message come thru that your star signing of the summer was arrested fighing in McDonalds at 5 in the morning ! Or was caught dogging !

I think it would be hilarious !!

Never happen of course, but these things do happen irl.

Suge

Yeah, someone said something about the legal implications and they are right. Remember a while back when the Chinese or Japanese team had a reet royal paddy at SI for making them all crap? Now imagine if Craig Bellamy is playing happily on FM one day and he suddenly opens a news item with the headline, "Bellamy caught with his pants down" or "Bellamy: The Real Gender Bender" etc etc...

SI would need a great set of lawyers to get out of that.

heathxxx

It's a sad reflection when players, clubs, etc... get so upset over image rights that they won't license or permit the use of their "name" or "image rights" in a game.

In the "age of the claim", it's also sad if a player were to sue a company like SI for damages for "emotional trauma" caused if a fictional comment was made about them in the game.

It would be nice for the media side to be beefed up in the future releases, but realistically, SI will always have to tread carefully.

I can only see the "rights" issues getting tougher in the future, with individuals and organisations refusing to allow use of their "name", "brand" or "image", unless they're paid for the privalige of course.