Oldham Athletic striker Kian Harratt has found himself embroiled in controversy this week after footage emerged of him throwing a plastic chair at a woman.
Harratt, 23, whose identity was exclusively revealed by MailOnline, did so last Saturday at the Marco Polo Hotel in San Antonio, Ibiza, in response to a fight that he claimed was started by a ‘6ft 6in bully’ who punched his friend.
After being hit, the woman collapsed to the ground holding her face while the other group fell into the pool and topless Harratt retreated out of shot.
It comes just weeks after the forward scored the winning goal in the National League play-off final at Wembley to earn the Latics promotion to League Two.
But Harratt is not the first footballer to become involved in notorious incident while enjoying a holiday abroad.
Read on below for a look at some mischievous players who racked up huge bills, ran into trouble with local police and even stole a taxi.
Oldham striker Kian Harratt was filmed launching a chair in the direction of a woman at an Ibiza resort
The woman was left lying motionless on the ground as multiple bystanders attended to her
Harratt, 23, plays for Oldham and recently said he was looking forward to a ‘little party in Ibiza’
West Bromwich Albion players in taxi drama
During their last season in the Premier League, which came in 2017-18, West Brom endured a miserable campaign.
They went on a 20-match winless run en route to finishing bottom of the table, with things faring worse for some of the squad off the pitch.
The nadir of a forgetful season for the Baggies arguably came in February 2018 when captain Jonny Evans, Gareth Barry, Jake Livermore, and Boaz Myhill allegedly stole a taxi to get back to their Spanish hotel from a McDonald’s in Barcelona.
At the time, police confirmed they passed the players’ details on to an investigating court after racing to their five-star boutique hotel, The One, to recover the taxi following a call from a concerned receptionist.
Evans was subsequently stripped of the West Brom captaincy as punishment for his actions and apologised along with his three teammates.
Fortunately for the group of players involved, a Barcelona court shelved the probe against them because of a ‘lack of proof.’
In February 2018, then-West Brom captain Jonny Evans, Gareth Barry, Jake Livermore, and Boaz Myhill allegedly stole a taxi
England stars’ Ayia Napa sex tape scandal
While England’s so-called ‘Golden Generation’ will be remembered for never winning a major tournament, a select few of them will also live long in the memory for their errant antics when they were not playing for the Three Lions.
In 2000, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard and Kieron Dyer all briefly appeared in a video that contained sexually explicit content.
It was filmed in the Cypriot town of Ayia Napa – a town notoriously popular with British tourists.
In 2004, Channel 4 aired a brief clip of the video as part of their 2004 documentary Sex, Footballers and Videotape, claiming it was used to ‘remind the viewer that [the programme] is based on real life’.
The incident was subsequently revealed to the nation just days after Dyer returned home to England.
After he was involved in an altercation in Ipswich that ended with him having to go to the hospital to check whether his vision had been permanently damaged, images of the sex tape appeared in the now-defunct News of the World.
Dyer later revealed all behind the incident in a MailSport column in 2018, in which he wrote: ‘We didn’t give a s***. It was the end of the season and we thought we were invincible. Being called animals in the press ought to have curbed our enthusiasm, but we just carried on.
‘We knew there were cameras around and we knew reporters were following us. We didn’t care.
‘They printed one picture of me on the back of a moped with Rio. That was astonishingly tame compared to the rest of the stuff we got up to, but it got me in trouble because my contract said something about not riding motorbikes.’
Kieron Dyer was in a video that contained sexually explicit content back in 2000
Jack Grealish’s smoke-fuelled Tenerife session
Jack Grealish, once the Premier League’s most expensive signing, has consistently been open about his love of playing hard on and off the field.
While still at his boyhood club Aston Villa in 2015, at the age of 19, he was pictured sprawled over in the Spanish island of Tenerife.
He appeared to be lying next to packets of cigarettes while holidaying there with friends during the off-season.
In response to the images emerging, Villa released a statement in which they said they would hold an internal meeting with the player.
Fortunately, Grealish and the club were able to put the incident behind them in the years that followed.
The Villans were able to re-establish themselves as a Premier League force thanks to Grealish’s exploits, while the midfielder won a Treble with Manchester City following his £100million move in 2021.
Jack Grealish was pictured sprawled over a street in the Spanish island of Tenerife in 2015
Maguire’s Mykonos nightmare
In August 2020, England and Manchester United centre-back Harry Maguire was given a 21-month suspended sentence for assaulting a police officer while on a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos.
He was also convicted of attempted bribery after officers arrived to break up a brawl outside a bar.
In a statement printed in Greek publication Protothema, one of the arresting officers on the night of the scrap claimed that Maguire was abusive after being placed under arrest in Greece.
The statement alleges Mr Maguire shouted: ‘F*** you all, f*** off, f*** the Greek police, f*** policemen, f*** Greece, f*** the Greek civilisation, I don’t give a s***’.
The statement adds that Maguire, ‘attacked the sergeant…he pushed him away and kicked him in the right leg causing swelling of his left and right tibia.’
However, the Man United star does not have a criminal record as his original conviction was ‘nullified’ and insists he is innocent.
In August 2020, Manchester United centre-back Harry Maguire ran into trouble on the Greek island of Mykonos
In an interview with the BBC shortly after the incident occurred, he said: ‘I don’t feel I owe an apology to anybody. An apology is something when you have done something wrong.’
‘I don’t wish it on anybody. Obviously the situation has made it difficult for one of the biggest clubs in the world, so I regret putting the fans and the club through this, but I did nothing wrong.’
In March this year, his defence lawyer Alexis Anagnostakis, said: ‘It is impermissible that my client has been denied the fundamental right, as set out by Greek and EU law, to understand the case file in his own language, in this case English.’
After the panel of judges agreed with the statement, it saw the hearing postponed until October 8, allowing court-appointed interpreters six months to translate the case file from Greek to English.
