Gino Coutinho, goalkeeper of the Eredivisie club ADO Den Haag who, along with his girlfriend, was yesterday found guilty in a Dutch court of owning a major cannabis farm and, as if that was not enough, being involved in forgery and money laundering. The pair were sentenced to 12 months in prison, leaving Coutinho's career in ruins and his club the task of finding a replacement keeper for their remaining three games of the season.

Police arrested Coutinho in August 2009 after raiding a warehouse in Ens, a village in the Dutch province of Flevoland, that contained over 4,200 marijuana plants.