‘Do Are Ya? Bacary Sagna won bet to get braids
Posted By Rob Parker on September 7, 2009
And they were the prize not a forfeit!
Arsenal full-back Bacary Sagna has revealed his trademark blond braids are the result of a bet with his father. A teenage Sagna was desperate for a new look, but papa said he could only get the peroxide plats if he scored two goals against a team of adults.
He said: “I was 17 or 18 and playing in the fourth team against the seniors. They were 25 to 30 years of age, and we were teenagers — a young team like Arsenal. But we were playing better than them because we played as a team — we used to do everything together.
“The bet was I had to score two goals to change my hairstyle. That’s my father - not one goal, two! Afterwards, I called him and told him I’d done it. He didn’t believe me but I did it and I remember thinking, ‘Now, I can do what I want.’”
God bless that inept senior team for gifting us Sagna’s luscious locks!
Those things are absolutely disgusting. They do however allow me to pick him out quite easily when he’s on the far side of the pitch.