10 Awful Songs By Footballers

By Danny Parker /

10. Vinnie Jones - Big Bad Leroy Brown

We kick the list off with Vinnie Jones. The footballer, turned actor, turned singer?! Yep, believe it or not the former Leeds United player€™s talents don't just stop at squeezing Gascoigne€™s balls so hard that veins can be seen popping out of his temple and declaring that he is €˜the Juggernaut, Bitch!€™ in X-Men: The Last Stand. He can also sing, or at least try to sing. If Vinnie Jones says he wants to give music a go, you smile, avoid airing any doubts and just let him get on with it. The midfielder was allowed to cover Jim Croce€™s €˜Big Bad Leroy Brown€™, which is actually quite a catchy folk-rock song when Croce sings it. Unfortunately, Jones can€™t carry a tune in the way old Jim could and instead delivers a tame, karaoke parody of one of the musician€™s more popular records before his untimely death at the tender age of thirty. While Jones€™ isn't the most talented of singers, the song is not unbearable and his performance within the video seems pretty light-heart and slick. Still, nobody is complaining that he chose to ditch the music business after just one record. It can be assumed that it was indeed his choice.