Mystic Pies strikes again. The minute we start joking around about seeing Kieron Dyer move to West Ham for a reunion of the St James’s Park Amateur Boxing Club, and Alan Curbishley makes it be known that he is interested in completing the whole set of ex-Newcastle bad boys. Curbs is desperate for a replacement for unspeakably stupid £6 million winger Julien Faubert who is out for six months with a ruptured achilles tendon.
Dyer – renowned for his love of playing on the wing – would be reunited with Lee Bowyer, with whom he had an on-pitch punch-up, as well as Scott Parker and Craig Bellamy. Sam Allardyce would reportedly let Dyer and his £80,000-a-week wages leave the club for £4 million (in transfer fees, not backhanders).