Trivia

Holds the record for being the quickest player ever to be yellow-carded in a game of professional soccer. He was booked 3 seconds into the game.

Is banned from flying on Virgin Atlantic after causing a fight on a flight to Tokyo.

Played 384 league games and scored 33 goals in his soccer career, most of them with Wimbledon. He was sent off more than ten times.

Is friends with actor Jason Statham, and worked with him three times: first in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), then in Snatch (2000) and in Mean Machine (2001).

[November 24, 2013] Receiving treatment for skin cancer.

Despite being born in England he was capped nine times by the Wales national team (he qualified to play for Wales by way of a Welsh grandparent).

Invited by singer Joss Stone to participate in her 3rd album "Introducing Joss Stone". He is the male voice in the album's 1st track "Change (Vinnie Jones Intro)".

Vinnie formed a football team called the Hollywood All Stars Football Club (HASFC) in spite of the existing Hollywood United Football Club. HASFC beat United in their inaugural season and won the championship.

Quit drinking alcohol entirely in 2012.

Was briefly player/coach of Queens Park Rangers football club. (1998)

Guy Ritchie offered him a role in Revolver (2005), but he turned it down for unknown reasons.

Was originally set to play Skinner McGraw in Hero Wanted (2008) but couldn't due to filming commitments on Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train (2008).

Was a student at Chancellors School, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire.

Father, with Tanya Jones, of son Aaron Jones, born in 1991, and daughter Kayley Jones, born in 1987.

Shares birthday with Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) co-star Robert Duvall.

In 2002, he revealed that he is a supporter of the British Conservative Party.

Vinnie Jones formed the band 007 in the late 1990s. The band's name is inspired by the James Bond franchise, but the group itself didn't achieve major mainstream success.