*** BREAKING NEWS***

Undercover Dutch police investigating a series of high profile kidnappings over the last 18 months, today raided an isolated farmhouse near Breda.

Acting on information received, armed police officers arrested a number of men believed to have links with Russian Mafia groups, and rescued a 25 year old Dutch footballer who has apparently been held there for a number of months.

The kidnapped man is claiming to be Jurgen Colin ,a promising Dutch defender, although it was believed that Colin was now playing for an English club, Norwich City.

A police spokesman reported that the man insists he is Jurgen Colin and that his captors had arranged an elaborate sting involving forged paperwork and an actor who impersonated Colin's agent.

Whilst in captivity he alleges he heard the kidnappers discussing the arrangements to send over to England a lookalike, who was actually a Congolese refugee, who had only ever played football for his local village team.

A UEFA representative said he found the story quite incredible, in that an English league team would soon realise the difference between a former PSV Eindhoven defender and a Congolese pub team player.

'Such a player' went on Kurt Diefenbaker 'would not be able to last a full 90 minute game, and would be shown up for lack of pace and inability to pass the ball accurately. I feel sure that Norwich City will have got the right man.'

A spokesman at Norwich City said that the matter was being looked into by Neil Doncaster who was checking through the transfer documentation, although they said they felt sure the player they had signed was the real Colin as they'd seen him playing for PSV and he looked just like that.

Posted By: SCC 26, Feb 23, 15:27:13