sport news Troubled AFL great Ben Cousins' footy comeback continues with 'uncensored' ... trends now

1996 - Makes AFL debut with West Coast and is named the league's Rising Star

2001 - Named club co-captain of West Coast at age 23. Made sole captain the next year

2002 - Breaks his arm falling down a flight of stairs at a nightclub months after punching his teammate Daniel Kerr

2005 - (May) Is quizzed by police about association with underworld identities

- (September) Wins Brownlow medal as the AFL's best and fairest player

2006 - (February) Swims across a Perth river to escape a booze bus

- (September) Wins AFL premiership with the Eagles

- (December) Arrested after passing out in front of Melbourne's Crown Casino and spends four hours in custody 

2007 - (March) Suspended by West Coast after missing training session

- (April) Goes to a drug rehabilitation facility in Malibu, California

- (October) Revealed to have visited fellow Eagles legend Chris Mainwaring twice on the night he died of a drug overdose

- (October) Arrested and charged with drug offences that are later dropped 

- (November) Eventually sacked by West Coast and banned from the AFL for one year

2008 - AFL re-registers Cousins and he is signed by Richmond

2010 - Retires from the AFL and releases autobiography and documentary