English footballer Stan Bowles died on Saturday at the age of 75. He was an outsider, an individualist, an entertainer, and a free spirit.
Alcohol, womanizing, gambling: Bowles was the opposite of a model professional. Bowles played seven years for QPR from 1972 to 1979, including perhaps the best years the team ever enjoyed at Loftus Road. At the Rangers, Bowles had complete freedom. The club management knew that he had to be taken as he was. On the pitch, the unpredictability turned chaotic; when Bowles married, his wife had no access to his money.