As 'Arry heads to court to discuss tax evasion he must know that this trial has the potential to derail not only Spurs tittle bid this season but also his chances of taking over the management of his country, a job that must be the holy grail for a man of his arrogance. He must rue the day he heard of Amdy Faye. This fact makes the lengths he went to (apparently) to sign him even more amusing. Amdy was by all accounts a wanted man - not least by Steve Gibson's Middlesborough. 'Arry talked Amdy in to training with the blues and played the 'new Patrick Vieria' against Kilmarnock in a preseason friendly. In what must have been quite the performance 'Arry using all his east-end nous came up with the genius plan of playing him under the pseudonym so 'Andy Henry' played his one game for Pompey - and the watching scouts from Villa and Boro were suitably impressed.'Arry, who apparently as well as dealing with training also was at the time the single point of contact for PFCs admin and was ensuring that none of the messages to Faye got through as he attempted to finalise the deal with Auxerre. The next day 'Arry is on his way with Sandra to a BBQ at Jamie and Louise's when he is contacted by someone who has apparently stationed outside Amdys hotel room, apparently ineffectively because he reports the midfielder has displayed an uncharacteristic turn of pace and is heading to the airport to return to France to sign a better deal with a bigger club. But Arry (and the apparently long suffering Sandra) catch up with Faye, bundle him into the car and imprison him in sandbanks where the Redknapp hounds were set to guard him until he signed the deal. Sometimes people say 'you couldn't make it up' but I'm sure 'Arry did to some extent, but it makes a good yarn. Unfortunately Faye didn't really live up to the effort expended to acquire him, playing under 50 games for the club. He was released by Leeds last year and as a 34 year old is still a free agent after failing to find a club.
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