The 25 shits of Christmas - days 15, 16 and 17

Our festive roundup of complete and utter turds continues today with number fifteen, Carl Cort.

Infamously rumoured to have been confused by Sir Bobby for Jason Euell, Carl was signed for £7m in July 2000 but never hit any sort of heights. His scoring record was reasonable at 7 league goals in 22 games, but his injury record on Tyneside was ridiculous, and he left for Wolves in 2004. More widely known in Newcastle supermarkets though for his wife’s “don’t you know who my husband is” rant.

Day sixteen brings us this controversial character:

Joey Barton was signed from Man City in 2007 by Big Sam Asdaprice, having recently kicked the living daylights of out his teammate at Citeh. Injured in pre-season, returned to do the square root of fuck all before being locked up for GBH and common assault. Returning again, he got injured yet again and has barely played this season. A complete waste of £6m, £50k per week…and oxygen. Hopefully will never disgrace the black and white of NUFC again. Lovely chap.

Finally, day 17 brings us the legendary layabout that is Celestine Babayaro.

Babayaro seemed a decent signing at the time, but his lazy arsed ‘performances’ down the left hand side for Newcastle saw him fast turn into a hate figure at St James Park. Described as a ‘disgrace’ by then-chairman Freddy Shepherd, he was finally turfed out of SJP in 2007 and signed for LA Galaxy, for whom he didn’t once play a game. A truly festering turd in a massive pile of shit.