Peter Crouch leading out a non-league side after finishing bottom of his fantasy football league is not the strangest way he's joined a club.

Sean Dyche has revealed he managed to convince the former England striker to join him at Burnley at the Isle of Wight festival.

The 54-year-old was Crouch's final club manager before the latter brought the curtain down on his illustrious career in 2019.

Dyche has now admitted the move to sign Crouch had actually been on the cards the summer before, after a chance festival encounter.

The pair are both huge Kasabian fans and were both in the crowd to watch the band perform at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2018.

Ex-Liverpool star Crouch had just been relegated with Stoke City , with his 'agent' wife Abbey Clancy urging Dyche to sign him.

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