11 Footballers Who Might Be Universal Monsters

11. Steve Ogrizovic (The Brute Man)

Mike Egerton/EMPICS SportMike Egerton/EMPICS SportProminent jawline, large nose, imposing stature... was that the Brute Man in goal for Coventry City from the mid-1980s until the year 2000?? Steve Ogrizovic truly had the hard, protuberant facial features of a comic book gangster - just like the Brute Man (or the Creeper, as he was also known) in the 1946 Universal horror movie of the same name - thanks largely to a nose that had obviously suffered a number of breaks in his playing career. The Brute Man movie starred Rondo Hatton - a man renowned for his stern features and who would often play thuggish characters in movies around that time in his somewhat brief, but extremely prolific career - and you'd be forgiven for getting him mixed up with the former goalie. Universal PicturesUniversal PicturesOgrizovic is something of a Coventry City legend, having made well over 500 appearances for the Sky Blues, but even the most hardened fan of the club would be hard-pressed not to be afraid if they met him down a dark alley (he regularly finds himself on lists of scariest/ugliest footballers).
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