A Manchester United icon and Red Devils flop starred in a leaked sex tape with four women, which was discovered in a bin and showed one of them being whipped while wearing a dress
There was no hiding for the soon-to-be Manchester United flop, as his every touch of the ball was met by 37,000 people making whipping sounds.
Mark Bosnich, who turned 54 earlier this week, can look back and laugh at the absurd situation now – but in that moment he might have wanted the Villa Park turf to swallow him whole after an X-rated tape had found its way into the hands of a national newspaper.
The Aussie, himself an outlandish character who loved to party, met his match with his Aston Villa team-mate Dwight Yorke – and one drunken bash led to a quartet of women and the pair of footballers ending up in the striker’s bedroom in 1998, the year Yorke signed for Sir Alex Ferguson’s side.
Yorke, now 54, had a camera in the corner of his room, which captured the group swapping clothes before engaging in some X-rated activities. The footage showed the Trinidad and Tobago coach seemingly having sex with one of the women, while the goalkeeper took a spanking from another.
Recalling the episode on Australian sports show Back Page Live, Bosnich, who was engaged at the time of the filming, admitted: “We did a tape with four women, Dwight and myself. We put their clothes on, they put our clothes on, and we played truth or dare on the bed.
“If a question was seen to be not answered correctly, you had to suffer a punishment. One of my punishments was getting hit with a belt on the backside, in a dress.”
The Aussie might not have thought much of the tape when it filmed, but after it was discovered in Yorke’s bin, shortly after his move to United, it was leaked to a paper and became front page news.
And it was during a clash with Sheffield Wednesday that Bosnich was reminded very loudly and clearly of what he’d got up to that night. He recalled: “37,000 people every time I went to touch the ball went [whip-crack noise].”
Yorke would claim later, in an autobiography, that neither he nor Bosnich actually scored that night. He said: “I think one or two of us might have been hoping it would turn into an orgy, he said, but that never happened.”
The incident never got between the pair, and when Bosnich tied the knot for the third time in 2022 to long-time partner Sara Jones, the mother of his two children, he asked Yorke to be his best man.
The duo were later reunited at the Red Devils, when Bosnich was drafted in to try and fill the sizeable boots of the legendary Peter Schmeichel in 1999.
However, Sir Alex Ferguson described him as a “terrible professional” in his own book – saying the Australian’s love for fatty foods made him a nightmare to deal with.
“We played down at Wimbledon and Bosnich was tucking into everything: sandwiches, soups, steaks. He was going through the menu,” he said in his book.
“We arrived back in Manchester, and Mark was on mobile phone to a Chinese restaurant to order a takeaway. I said: ‘Is there no end to you?”’
Bosnich left the Red Devils in 2001 before spells with Chelsea, Central Coast Mariners and Sydney Olympic led to his retirement in 2009.