I found a dead rat in car and saw Gerrard’s cousin throw live snakes in dressing room… the pranks were out of control
TROY DEENEY has revealed the extraordinary pranks involving snakes and rats he has been subject to in his career.
The Birmingham star recalled some hilarious stories from his days at Walsall, where he played between 2006-10.
Deeney, 34, can look back and laugh at some of the pranks that were pulled, but admitted it would be difficult to get away with such behaviour now.
He told the Daily Star: “There were a lot of things you can’t get away with anymore.
“We did this pranking thing for a little while and Anthony Gerrard, Stevie’s cousin, is a lovely fella but he is a mad man.
“So he came in and threw two live snakes in the dressing room and shut the door because he thought that was funny.
“The next day someone took his car and drove it to the back of the training ground 15 miles away and left it, so he thinks his car had been stolen. As you can imagine, it then begins escalating.”
Deeney revealed he was also targeted by a prank that involved dead rats, with ex-team-mate Michael Ricketts pulling a creative stunt on the rest of the dressing room.
The striker added: “Do you know the rats that they freeze to serve to snakes?
“Michael Ricketts put one in everybody’s washbag, so there was about 15 of them. When you’re just chatting and you’ve finished training and you’re reaching into your bag to grab the shower gel, people were pulling out these big fat rats.
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“I didn’t have a washbag because I was pretty poor at the time so I thought I’d got away with it. I get in my mum’s Ford Focus to go home, looked to the left of me – the rat’s got a seatbelt on.
“He’s in the passenger seat just sat there slumped. It was brilliant, but I did poo myself when I saw this rat!”