The problem for some people who have a bit of a past is that it can come back to haunt them. Like Dave Kitson, for example, who is now being visited by ghosts from a previous life as he bids to start a footballing revolution within the inner sanctum of the Professional Footballers' Association.
This ginger ninja wants to topple Gordon Taylor and replace him as chief executive of the players' union - a position he has held for a staggering 38 years.
Given how unpopular Taylor now is, having become one of the fattest cats in football, you'd have thought the mission to take him down would be an open goal to a journeyman striker like Kitson.