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“Has any club accidentally signed completely the wrong player, due to a mix-up with the names or something like that?” asks Brandon Martin-Moore.
The most famous story of mistaken identity is almost certainly an urban myth. The yarn goes that, when Milan signed Luther Blissett from Watford in 1983, they thought they were buying John Barnes. We covered this in the Knowledge many moons ago, and nothing much has changed. But there are cases of clubs committing human error in more ways than one.
‘The Notts County reserve you recommended.’
‘Oh, it’s not HIM.’
“Blackburn will meet Leicester in the Championship on 30 September,” writes Peter Skilton. “Both have been champions of England in the past 29 seasons. What’s the record for the shortest time between two teams winning the top division and then meeting in the second tier? The best I can find is Napoli v Juventus in Serie B in 2006-07; both had won Serie A in the previous 17 years. But I’m sure somebody can beat that.”
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