Premier League’s Mr Fix-its revealed

Paul Richards remembers the phone call and it still brings a smile to his face.

“A young lad phoned me once and said - and these were his exact words - ‘There’s a rat in my kitchen; what am I going to do?’ I collapsed laughing,” Richards tells the September issue of Four Four Two magazine for a feature on modern football’s ‘Fixers’.

“It wasn’t even a rat; it was a tiny field mouse.