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A recent survey has ranked Kevin Keegan's 70s poodle perm as football's all-time 'dodgiest barnet'. We at VM reckon Little Kev's classic cut has plenty of company when it comes to the kind of tonsorial elegance that footballers seem to specialise in. Here is a selection to delight and appal in equal measure.

The darling of the celebrity weeklies wouldn't be where he is without a regular array of hairstyle changes, and for that reason Becks kicks us off. Beckham's coiffeuring experiments have often been hit or miss, but this one ranks as his biggest disaster - the Mohawk that he wore while the nation prayed over his metatarsal back in 2002.