Continuing our look at the weird and wonderful world of quirky celebrities, there was only one man who could be featured this week: Peter Odemwingie
“I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more, just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to fall down at QPR…” We’d never noticed that Peter Odemwingie was a strange character until quite recently, but he’s decided to go the full hog on it since the transfer window swung open and then slammed closed on Peter’s poor little fingers as he desperately scrabbled for a pen to sign on the dotted line.
His strange behaviour started on Twitter last week when he went on a rant that surely had his PR people pulling their hair out and looking for someone to take over his account.
He was tweeting about loyalty from him, from the fans, as well as an old Russian joke that read “happiness is not in money, but in the amount”, which may have alerted a few people as to why he decided he suddenly had to move to Loftus Road and get involved in a relegation battle.
After that little outburst, people assumed it would be a done deal, and the cameras were relentlessly following him as the deadline approached for the paperwork to be done.
Not satisfied with sitting idly by, Odemwingie decided he had to take action, to take the matter into his own hands, and like any good vigilante, he got behind the wheel of his car and headed to London to force the deal through on his own.
We’re not sure exactly what he was hoping to achieve or exactly what his plan was, but he possibly forgot that the two clubs involved in the transfer have to make an agreement, you can’t just show up at the door and start playing for a club, otherwise JOE would be starting for Barcelona. We’ve got the talent to do that of course, but we couldn’t leave our loyal fans without a place to come for news and info-tainment.
The true extent of how weird this story is kicked in when Harry Redknapp was interviewed and stated the the lad “made a bit of a mistake”.
Then of course, there was the crazy interview he gave where it seems he thought he’d already been signed, but now has to return to West Brom to play for them for the rest of the season, although we can’t imagine they’ll be thrilled to have him back. If you watch closely, you can see the other person, possibly his agent, encouraging him to just drive on, before realising they’re fighting a losing battle. Taking after his hero, Odemwingie does this interview out the window of his car, à la Redknapp.
A fool and his money are easily parted, but it would seem that for Odemwingie, he can’t actually get his hands on it in the first place. Although we’re sure he was just going there because Harry Redknapp is such a good manager and he wants to play for him…yeah, that’s it.
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