What is it with football's colourful characters sharing utterly bizarre stories on football chat shows? Yesterday we brought you Paul Gascoigne telling Clare Balding how he brought an ostritch to Spurs training and now we recall the time that Harry Redknapp gave an outspoken West Ham fan his debut in a pre-season friendly against Oxford City.
As football fans, it's only normal for us to think that we could do a better job than Player A in our club's team.
"I could have saved that" "I would have done better there" "I would have scored that" - all phrases that we've all thrown out at some point.
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If you're saying them while you're stood behind the manager's dugout at a game, then chances are he's not going to be too happy.
A staunch West Ham fan, complete with tattoo and earing, was voicing his opinion to Redknapp just two minutes into the friendly, the Hammers supporter having a big problem with striker Lee Chapman.
Redknapp made a number of changes at the break as it was a friendly and an injury meant they only had ten men. His solution was to give the heckling fan a run-out, as he recalls on an episode of the Jonathan Ross show.
Watch Harry tell the brilliant story of he allowed a fan to play for his beloved West Ham, in the following clip:
Redknapp managed to convince the assistant tannoy guy that the fan was a Bulgarian international who had played in the World Cup and the best thing about the whole story is that the fan went upfront and scored!
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Pure gold.
Featured Image Credit:Topics: Harry Redknapp, West Ham
