From the kitchen-sink ordinariness of the working-class Belfast upbringing towards stardom on the pitch at United, renown as a Sixties socialite and eventually the infamy of alcoholism with the despair and trouble it brought.
Lord Bonomy warned the 28-year-old from Oban that if he breached the conditions of probation or got into further trouble he would be brought back before the court and sentenced for the offence.
That kind of thinking is exactly what gets people in trouble-particularly when any such problem can easily be brought to a successful conclusion simply by having the colonoscopy procedure.
In the wake of the banking crisis that brought the Northern Rock to its knees, several smaller specialist mortgage lenders have been in trouble and have dropped out of the market.
Malouda brought a fine save from Julio Cesar at his near post, but once again Chelsea were having trouble producing the invention needed to break the deadlock.