6. Peter Beardsley (Quasimodo)
Steve Morton/EMPICS SportBless Peter Beardsley; he's genuinely one of the most naturally gifted footballers that England has ever produced - but he wasn't given the most handsome face by the powers-that-be. Still, at least
he was prepared to have a joke about it. Frank Skinner and David Baddiel used to refer to him as Quasimodo - the infamous "Hunchback of Notre-Dame" - on a relentlessly regular basis on their old television shows - and Beardsley (another scary/ugly footballer
list regular) sportingly took it with a pinch of salt. Indeed, it became his nickname in general.
Universal PicturesThere was actually a joke doing the rounds, back in the day, about Beardsley's supposed resemblance to the character - let's leave you with it and move on... Quasimodo asks Esmeralda, "am I really the ugliest b****** in the world?" "Why don't you go upstairs to the Magic Mirror and ask?" says Esmeralda. Quasimodo goes upstairs to the mirror and returns a few minutes later. As he hobbles in Esmeralda asks, "well, what did the mirror say?" To which Quasimodo replies, "who's Peter Beardsley?"