A history of Mad Mondays gone wrong, including AFL, NRL and A-League

WE take a stroll through some of the more memorable Mad Monday disasters. 

WE take a stroll through some of the more memorable Mad Monday disasters.

MONAGHAN'S DOG OF A DAY

Mad Monday Rule No.1: Do not engage in lewd sex acts with a dog.

Mad Monday Rule No.2: If you simply must break Rule No.1, ensure no one photographs it.

Former Canberra Raiders player Joel Monaghan helped re-write the textbook on what not to do on Mad Monday when he was photographed in an extremely compromising position with a dog during his team's post-season celebrations in 2010.

The alcohol-fuelled stunt quickly made its way onto social media, the RSPCA got involved and Monaghan eventually left the club. He now plies his trade in Europe.

FEV'S FOLLY 1

Only Brendan Fevola could pick Melbourne's busiest pedestrian intersection as the best place to parade around in a nightie with a sex toy protruding from his pants.

The former Carlton and Brisbane forward offended plenty of onlookers when he took to the street near Flinders St station holding a beer and with an anatomically aspirational piece of plastic on show down below.

Brendan Fevola

FEV'S FOLLY 2

Carlton mustn't have insisted that Fevola dispose of his toy after the incident, because 12 months later it was back as Carlton players embarked on yet another boozy pub crawl.

A drunk Fev was photographed at Naughton's Hotel swinging the sex toy above his head, with patrons complaining about the behaviour of numerous Blues players.

BULLDOGS BLOW IT BIG TIME

The Canterbury Bulldogs' "louts only" recruitment policy paid handsome dividends after the 2012 grand final, when players urinated on their home ground field in full view of the media, before a controversy over obscene comments initially believed to have been directed at a female journalist.

Canterbury later investigated and ruled that the comments were part of player-on-player sledging, then announced they would donate $30,000 to a charity as a "we're sorry" gesture over the mishandling of their Mad Monday celebrations.

David Fa'alogo

SMACKED, ON HIS BACK, THEN SACKED

Everybody was kung-fu fighting.

Well, actually, only former South Sydney coach Jason Taylor was, and he stopped pretty quickly when one of his players, David Fa'alogo, took exception to a midriff jab and duly punched him in the face.

Taylor was eventually sacked over the incident, which happened after a long drinking session at a Sydney hotel, despite arguing that "the nature of the consensual horse play was pretend, lightweight kung-fu play".

AKER A BROWNLOW NO-SHOW

Jason Akermanis was a sore and sorry man after a Mad Monday blowout meant he was too drunk to attend the Brownlow Medal count.

But not nearly as sore and sorry as he probably was the next morning when his wife - who was supposed to attend the Brownlow with him, had planned her outfit for weeks and had driven to pick him up from the Yarraville watering hole where he'd written himself off - was done with him.

Aker's explanation?

"I had planned to go (to the Brownlow), and I had a really good plan in place to get there. But it's fair to say I miscalculated a few things, and as such didn't execute the plan all that well."

Andre Gumprecht

CENTRAL COAST'S COSTUME CALAMITY

When it comes to costumes, there are some areas into which you never venture.

Dressing as Hitler is one of them, and arguably more so when you're German.

Former Central Coast Mariners import Andre Gumprecht offended people so badly with his 2008 Mad Monday get-up that he made headlines overseas and was forced to apologise to Jewish groups both here and in his native country.

Tony Vidmar also earned the A-League's wrath for dressing as God (more specifically the Morgan Freeman version of the big guy upstairs, as depicted in the film Bruce Almighty).

LUI A TIGERS LOW POINT

When your Mad Monday celebrations start on Saturday, things are unlikely to end well.

The West Tigers' post-season was thrown into turmoil in 2011 when halfback Robert Lui was charged with assaulting his pregnant girlfriend.

Lui was stood down from the Tigers, however the charges were eventually dropped and he reignited his career with North Queensland.

A SMALL ISSUE AT ST KILDA

The Saints added to the long list of Mad Monday indiscretions when a player allegedly set a dwarf alight during the club's revelry.

The situation was exacerbated when AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou laughed uncontrollably when told of the incident during an appearance on Channel 7 panel show Talking Footy.