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Meet the ex-Arsenal star who ran a brothel, smuggled porn and plotted counterfeit gold scam
DAILY STAR SPORT'S WINNERS AND SINNERS: You think you have heard about football mavericks? Well, wait until you read about Peter Storey - one of football's true off-field characters
There have been few footballers in the sport’s history like Peter Storey.
A regular for Arsenal during the 1960s and 1970s, he earned a reputation as the club’s ‘hard man’: his role was, quite blatantly, to rough up the opposition, to be as cynical as possible without crossing what was, at the time, a pretty generous line.
"Here are a few choice words which have been used to describe me: assassin, bards' bard, boot boy, bully, calculating, 'cold eyes', destructive, dirty, hatchet man, merciless, pernicious, rogue, ruthless, thug, vicious," he wrote in his 2010 autobiography True Storey: My Life and Crimes as a Football Hatchet Man.
Storey was almost callous in his approach as a player, and it resulted in plenty of criticism.
Even in the 60s, his aggressive style was considered, by some, a little too much.
Still, with his distinctive long hair and sideburns, he had established himself as one of Arsenal’s great enforcers at a time when such players were widely revered.
It was his pursuits off the pitch that truly defined him, though.
By the time he had retired - after two seasons with Fulham in the late 70s - he had been married three times, and a fourth wedding followed soon after.
His first wife left him after bemoaning his "boozy, carefree ways", and she was not the only one who noticed.
Storey invested in the Jolly Farmers pub in London in 1975 and soon started spending night after night there, drawn in by the alcohol and attention from women.
Things got truly bizarre in the years after Storey’s playing career had come to an end.
In 1979, he was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence and fined £700 having been convicted of opening and running a brothel.
He had set up the establishment in an attempt to raise enough money to flee the country, after getting involved with a group of local gangsters and producing counterfeit money, for which he was due to go on trial.
"I was never a criminal mastermind, but rather a foolish former footballer with more money than sense,” Storey said.
“It sounds so big-time, so glamorous doesn't it? All I did was lend some money to blokes I thought were going to make a few quid by knocking out cheap imitation jewellery."
Storey’s legal problems did not end there.
He was later jailed for contempt of court, and in two separate instances, went to prison for stealing cars and smuggling pornography.
There was also a 28-day suspended sentence for verbally abusing a traffic warden.
Unsurprisingly, Storey did not go into coaching or management following his playing career.
He had a spell on unemployment benefits before working at a market stall in West London.
There was a brief period as a minicab driver, too, after which he moved to Turkey to act as Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani’s chauffeur.
Then it was on to Southern France - the city of Toulouse - where he settled with his wife.
Storey, then, has lived a fascinating life. It has included debauchery, crime and entrepreneurship.
It has been so eventful, in fact, that his career as a footballer, by now, seems almost a side note.
