Thinning hair can be a traumatic experience for even the most accomplished of men. One day you're a fresh faced teenager with a sturdy head of hair and the next you're a crawling around a field in Italy trying to find you're massive headband to cover up your naked scalp. It's just not fair.
Despite the fact that Gervinho may be a professional footballer of quite decent standing, that's no reason to mock. So, having said that, let's embark on this journey with some good natured empathy, shall we?
Roma took on Cagliari on Sunday and unfortunately for our braided hero, he lost his headband in the general run of play and with the all encompassing nature of media coverage, he was of course captured for all eternity in a state of undress.
According to folks on the internet, the former Arsenal man suffers from a classic case of traction alopecia which, as far as we can tell, is the scientific term for 'don't braid your hair if you're going bald'. So we put this here as a warning. If you are losing your hair, dreads are not the way to go.
And yes, this is 100% real and un-photoshopped.
