Football supremos have a nasty habit of getting arrested, as the recent detention of the president of Spanish second division side Xerez proved.

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Joaquin Bilbao was apprehended on suspicion of involvement in a bar shooting but his arrest was by no means the first time a football chairman has attracted the attention of the law, as our selection of rogues highlights below:

George Reynolds (Darlington) - When the former Darlington chairman's Mercedes was stopped by police in 2004, they found £550,000 in the boot. Further investigations revealed he had not paid taxes for six years while declaring his pension as his only income. He was subsequently jailed for three years.

Luciano Moggi (pictured, Juventus) - The controversial former general manager of Juventus paid the price for his part in the Calciopoli scandal that rocked Italian football in 2006 when he was handed an 18-month jail sentence, albeit suspended, earlier this year.

Spencer Trethewy (Aldershot) - When Aldershot were going to the wall in 1990 they received apparent financial salvation from the unlikely figure of 19-year-old 'property developer' Trethewy, who came up with £200,000. However, it soon transpired that the young tyke had absolutely no means of repaying any of the money he had borrowed and the club eventually folded in 1992. Two years later, Trethewy was jailed for fraud.

Thaksin Shinawatra (Manchester City) - Having left Eastlands, the former Thai Primer Minister was last year sentenced to two years in prison in Thailand for abusing his power in a land deal involving his wife. He is currently on the run as his home country seeks to gain an extradition order to bring him to justice.

Bernard Tapie (Marseille) - The flamboyant former French Cabinet minister was incarcerated after being convicted of bribing an opposition team to throw a match against Valence in the early 1990s. Marseille, at that time boasting a line-up that included Chris Waddle, were subsequently relegated from Ligue 1 but not stripped of the Champions League title they held.

Barry Noonan (Southwick FC) - Sussex Country League club Southwick found themselves on the wrong end of some bad publicity in 2007, when their chairman was found guilty of conspiracy to supply class-A drugs and jailed for 14 years. Sussex Police claimed at the time that they had not seen a purer cocaine, whose street value topped £200,000.

And finally, it is not strictly an arrest, but...

Ramon Calderon (Real Madrid) - Calderon may usually hit the headlines for his public courting of certain Premier League-based players, but in September 2007 he was big news after being detained by immigration officials at an airport in New York. Why? The Madrid supremo shares his surname with someone who was blacklisted by the US. The Spanish government were forced to step in to clear up the confusion before Calderon was allowed into the country to continue his personal visit, the club said.