According to Soccernet.

Sunday tabloids this week alleged that Dyer had taken part in filmed sex romps also involving two other England internationals, and it now seems certain that Robson will warn the star about his behaviour.

As I don't read newspapers I didn't know about this one.

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

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2 syllable response to that...first bit is "bull"

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

Was it national 'get at Dyer week' and I didn't here about it?

There was no glassing on the pub. I heard he go into a punch up and got a 1cm cut in his eyelid and some brusing.

Lord the papers love to spread scandal, even when there isn't any. Gutter press is just what they are.

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

'Caught' with his pants down along with Rio & Frank jr., so the gossip goes.

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

All single lads with willing women. What is wrong with that? Everyone on in their early 20's would do the same given the opportunity.

Having been on a Club 18-30 Holiday there is a lot of it about :o)

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

This apparently took place at Ayia Napia where Dr Bill took his holidays. If you see the pictures in the NOTW it is impossible to tell who is who.

Is this a case of mistken identity?

Are we to assume that Dr Bill sat by the pool throughout these activities reading one paperback after another?

I think we should be told.

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

Response to Who's been a naughty boy? Allegedly ??.

I thought Dyer had a missus and small child - or was that more 'Two syllable' odouriferous fertilizer?

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

errr don't think so Si. Anyway read Dr Bill's hugely ammusing report from his hols (crikey, the summer assignments have't changed much in 25years have they 'what i did on my holidays' again?) especially when Mrs Bill saw dangling Dion in the bar!! marvelous!!

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

Don't scare me with thread titles like this please....

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

"Are we to assume that Dr Bill sat by the pool throughout these activities reading one paperback after another?

I think we should be told."

OK, I admit everything - the infeasibly large number of books in my reading list was the give away, wasn't it? I knew that getting that video camera at the airport would lead to trouble. They kept asking me to film some more, even though I tried to make my excuses and leave. I think it was to take the p*ss out of their mates in the England squad. Woodgate and Ferdinand were the ringleaders, honest guv, I never saw Dyer or the other one at all. But I made the pictures all fuzzy like that deliberately, so nobody could recognise the women - else they would be after me for a cut of the NOTW's fee, know what I mean? And I'd like another 47 offences taken into account...

Really (dropping out of Lavender Hill mode I mean), the bliddy hypocrisy of the tabloids never ceases to amaze me. Of the clubbing population of Ayia Napa, that is about 98%, one half was sh@gging the other half every night, in an ever-shifting pattern (personal observation, well not too close you understand). And that is exactly the behaviour which the tabloids present as normal and accepted, and the image of Brit youth on holiday that they revel in. When it's an individual, however, rather than some anonymous "phwoarr" bird "gagging for it" with a "raunchy" bloke who's "up for it", oh dear me, that's different, tut tut, can't have that because it might influence impressionable people. Sheesh, nakes me ill. Must be time for me bromide.

-- Anonymous, June 27, 2000

Response to Who's been a naughty boy? Allegedly ??.

Taken from the football365 site...

THE BAD BOYS OF SUMMER

Naming And Shaming Those Misbehaving Football Folk

By Alan Tyers

THE summer is always a worrying time for parents. All that holiday, kiddies staying out late and getting up to no good... who'd be a mum? Or a football manager?

It's the traditional British summer - the England cricket team taking a gubbing, all the Brits being out of Wimbledon by the weekend and the papers being full week after week as football folk misbehave on and off the pitch. It must be the heat! Here's this year's top ten so far...

1) Kieron Dyer, Newcastle United Has certainly been living up to his billing as a utility player. Kieron has variously been caught cheating on his pregnant (now former) girlfriend, getting hammered with the lads and having a fight in which it was reported (and denied) that he'd been glassed. Factor in a threesome with a 17-year-old and her 16-year-old virgin mate, seducing a girl with a packet of Rolos and the coup de grace of covertly filming himself on the job with a holiday pull and it's an astonishing all-round effort. An exhausting but comprehensive catalogue of bad behaviour.

2) Frank Lampard, West Ham United Also involved in the secret camcorder malarkey and, if Sunday's paper's are to be believed, encouraged a couple of stunners to 'become friendly', gave one of them a spanking and got up to all sorts of other business too saucy to go into on a site that doesn't ask for your credit card number first. It is believed that strong lager may have been taken. Incidentally, one former conquest described Lampard's bottom as being "like carved marble." His head can't be much different. His old man must be very proud.

3) Rio Ferdinand, West Ham United The final member of the porn vid three, Rio is also apparently on camera enjoying the company of a girl "performing a sex act" as the Sunday People delicately puts it. Rio's magnificent response to the accusations is truly a thing of wonder: "If you've seen me degrade girls, I'll hold my hand up." A touch of genuine class.

4) Dai Thomas, Cardiff City Went out to Charleroi and then told a newspaper that he got caught up in the lager-fuelled violence but had nothing to do with it. Unfortunately for Dai, the footage on the BBC's Panorama programme suggested otherwise. Who's that chap at the front giving it a lot of bravado, hand gestures and so on? Why, it's Cardiff City striker Dai Thomas! His club were not amused, suspending him pending an inquiry.

5) Gheorghe Hagi, Romania The Maradona of the Carpathians flounces around more like Madonna these days. Having already missed one game out of three due to suspension, he was sent off against Italy for a dive so hammy that it will surely feature at the next Academy Awards. Indeed, he should have already received red for a brutal tackle on Antonio Conte that left the Italian convinced Hagi was trying to break his leg. Contrite? Not a bit of it. And who's fault has all this been? The Romanian media, of course. Old people, eh?

6) Dietmar Hamann, Germany Clearly aiming to keep alive the spirit of the Spice Boys at Anfield, Hamann had a marvellous Euro 2000... on the carousing front. After the Romania game he, Liverpool-colleague-to-be Markus Babbel and 'ratter' Jens Jeremies got stuck into the drink in a Cologne bar, with Hamann there until the wee small hours signing like a good 'un. After the Portugal disaster, it was all back to the hotel for a huge drink-up so debauched poor old Lothar Matthaus was in bed by midnight. Hamann, however, was there until the bitter end (that's 6am, kids!). When a group of rowdy fans began a 5am sing-song, who do you think was there leading the chorus? Yep, it was that man Hamann! Fine work.

7) Seth Johnson, Matt Jansen & Lee Hendrie, all England Under-21 Seeing as their European Under-21 Championship campaign was going so swimmingly in Slovakia (England won one, lost two, out at the first hurdle - sound familar, Keggy?), our trio felt like they'd earned a drink. So, ignoring their hotel curfew, they went out and sampled one of Slovakia's, erm, legendary nightspots. The result? Three month England bans, starting from the beginning of next season. Bong!

8) Alan Shearer Senior, Sheet Metal Worker Laughing Boy Senior has disgraced himself down at the local. Mr Shearer, also called Alan (imaginative fellow, clearly) was involved in a scuffle when he sharked in on the fruit machine that another old timer was playing. With the machine all set to pay out, the man playing went to the bar to get some change. Showing all the predatory skills of his famous son, Alan sneaked in and began to play on the bandit, thus breaching fruitie etiquette and depriving the other bloke of his just deserts and causing a scene. He may be banned from the club in Gosforth.

9) Tugay Kerimoglu, Turkey Substituted before halftime against Belgium, Rangers' Turkish midfielder reacted with good grace and an admirable show of team spirit. Well, sort of. When his number came up on the flashy board thing, the not-at-all-amusingly-named player stomped off the pitch on the other side to the dug-outs and set out on a painfully drawn-out strop around the perimeter of the pitch which most resembled a small, greeting child dragging its heels in Tesco after being told it can't have ice cream. Finally arriving at the bench, he chucked his shirt and shinpads at the coach. Who promptly sent Tugay home to Turkey.

10) Phil Neville, England The worst behaviour of the lot.

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2000

Response to Who's been a naughty boy? Allegedly ??.

Darn - why does that stupid 'Response to ....' bit always come up at the start? Any ideas anyone?

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2000