Gaël Clichy: A Breath of Fresh Air as "Cashley" Cole Continues To Shame Himself

Two ends of a spectrum.

Two very different men.

Gaël Clichy and Ashley Cole are so far apart in personality type, that is hard to fathom that they are from the same planet.

Last Thursday morning, Clichy rose from his bed and went training for his currently struggling team (at least by their standards)—Arsenal.

After a hard training session, he donned his casual clothing and went to meet an artist named Gerald Scarfe to help decorate a car in Arsenal colours and designs, before being present to see it raffled off to raise funds for a charity that Arsenal often help out—The Teenage Cancer Trust.

Last Thursday morning, Ashley Cole rose from his bed at 5:30 a.m., in a prison cell. He was there because he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly outside a club in London. He abused photographers and policemen.

He was arrested and fined £80 before his tough line manager Guss Hiddink fined him a further £160,000—two weeks wages.

Just think Cashley, if you had taken Arsenal's improved contract offer of £55,000, you would have only been fined £110,000, saving yourself £50,000!

Oh yes, there most definitely is a divide in persona's between these two players.

"We're getting a lot of money and living our dream, our passion...when the club asks us to give a day's wages or assist with this (charity event) I give. It is nothing to me and it can make such a big difference to the children" the Frenchman said.

Hiddink meanwhile remained visibly angry at one of his star's outburst. "There are rules inside this club about going out. I had a firm talk with him...he overreacted in his abuse to the police."

It seems Gael Clichy really is a breath of fresh air in a footballing world that contains more premadonna's and metrosexual males than it does blades of grass.

Its stories like this that remind us that there really are "human" footballers out there that do more than spend mounds of money, drive fast cars and well...

Cheat on their wives, eh, Ashley?