Hagi hustles to defence

Gheorghe Hagi (right) was not a happy camper last week when he saw his face adorning the cover of the new Romanian version of…

Gheorghe Hagi (right) was not a happy camper last week when he saw his face adorning the cover of the new Romanian version of the rude magazine Hustler, one that advertised an interview with the moody midfield maestro inside - an interview he claimed he never gave. "To promise an interview with me is sick," he thundered. "I learned from my father that the most important thing in life is to be decent, and I would never promote pornography or any of the other dirty things that have come from the West and made ours a false democracy," he added, sounding just like Dennis Wise, in no sense at all. "I understand that everybody wants to make money out of my image, but I would never reduce my name to dirt for a magazine that is half about sex." And? "If my parents were alive today, they would die of shame."