West Brom defender Liam Ridgewell, 28, squats over a toilet and wipes his backside with a wad of £20 notes. Scattered on the floor in front of him are dozens more £20 notes, totalling almost £1,000.

The Premier League star, who earns at least £20,000 a week, is apparently using the cash instead of toilet roll. He claims the sick stunt was simply a “joke” to wind up a friend — but it will infuriate more than just his pal.

It’s a photo that will enrage hard-working football fans across Britain.

Ridgewell’s weekly wage is equivalent to the average annual salary in the West Midlands — one of the most deprived areas in the country.

The disgraceful snap — taken in the bathroom of Ridgewell’s £1.5million home in Barnt Green, Birmingham — was sent to The Sun by a West Brom fan who asked not to be named.
He said: “The people of West Bromwich earn a fraction of what this idiot earns yet he makes a mockery of his good fortune like this. It makes me sick”. “We’ve always thought footballers were arrogant, overpaid buffoons and this just proves it”.

Ridgewell, an unused sub in his side’s 1-0 defeat to Stoke yesterday, apologised last night.

He said: “The photo was taken in the privacy of my home around eight months ago as a joke to wind up a mate, who I had just won a personal bet with”. “I only intended him to see the photo but now it’s public, I can understand how it will be viewed. I am sorry for any offence it causes”.

A spokesman for West Brom, currently fifth in the Premier League, said: “This is a private issue for Liam that has become public. “It does not put the club in a good light and we will deal with the matter internally”.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4676674/liam-ridgewell-wipes-backside-with-20-pound-notes.html

The money is just too much for these footballers, imagine what Ronaldo, Messi etc will do with cash!!! Madness and craziness in display.
In other news...
I'm gonna make my dough and do shyte.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. this s not ridgewell

Only 20K per week and !!

Anyway it could be a fake picture

OMG . . .and this made the news?

Footballers wages need to be deregulated.....

Its fake, you can't insult UK money and go Scot free..

VERY STALE and DUMB NEWS.

OMG..if I fit get my hand on dose note..I go go wash am and change am for ABOKI for sabo...my pounds where r u

Consign me?!

20pounds that is about 4k to 5k that money don reach me to chop food for one week,

Damn...

This kind of pay is what made 60 year old Yakubu claim he was 25, 40 year old Taye taiwo claim he was 24, and ex-policeman Julius Aghahowa claim he was 19..

Simply put, Football money is the Sh1t (Pun intended)

I should have been a footballer

Damn...

There are animals in human flesh.

Na excess money dey worry am,he needs to be punished

ebamma 3: 20pounds that is about 4k to 5k that money don reach me to chop food for one week,

Guy, u mean one month

OMOOO,IF NA NAIJA,MAKE THE GUY GO DISPOSE AM FOR WASTE BIN, NAIJA BOIZ GO CARRY AM,USE SUNLIGHT WASH AM,DRY DEN FLEX WITH BABES....MONEY OVER EVERYFIN......

OYINBOGOJU: Footballers wages need to be deregulated.....

are they currently being regulated?

Its not fake news, he did it for a 'joke' with friends and the clip end up online

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4676674/liam-ridgewell-wipes-backside-with-20-pound-notes.html

That guy is in some very serious trouble

Who cares??how is that my business the guy works for his money..you think 90mins of epl football is a joke abi..cos ure watching it you think its easy

Who cares??how is that my business the guy works for his money..you think 90mins of epl football na joke abi..cos ure watching it you think its easy

So stupid. What can cause someone to doom themselves? See what boredom can cause. I hope he keeps the endorsements and salary after this. Hopefully in the near future he wouldn't have to beg for 20pounds.smh.

Iڪ he alright?

I totally see the humour in this. No biggie.

He won a bet, against his friend, and he's just messing around in good fun - trying to show his friend 'what' he's doing with the money he won. You know how we guys are .

An there's no way he's gonna wipe his bum with cash - too small, too slipery. Guy was just having fun.

This is not hygienic

A joke gone awry

This z really sexy

ebamma 3: 20pounds that is about 4k to 5k that money don reach me to chop food for one week,

which food??why not say Garri??no be only Garri you dey chop??

White man and stupid mentality

Stevechibu: Na excess money dey worry am,he needs to be punished

Punished for what? Didn't he work for the money? Did he pick it on the road? I think what he did is really stewpid and senseless but its still his money. Football is one profession that the pay is over too much

May he meet a Yahoo boy in Jesus name.

Too much money = too much stupidity. Lol...