Crouch reveals details on pig head prank that led to bricking of team-mate’s car

Peter Crouch has revealed exactly what happened in 2013 that led to team-mate Glenn Whelan’s car having a brick put through its window.

In 2013 a prank horribly backfired at Stoke and became national news when Kenwyne Jones found a pig’s head in his locker.

The striker was absolutely disgusted by what he found and thought Whelan was the culprit.

Jones reacted by smashing his team-mates car windscreen. After finding out it wasn’t Whelan, Jones issued an apology but revealed he still didn’t know who committed the act.

"I’ve apologised to Glenn Whelan for the destruction of his property," Jones tweeted at the time.

Before adding: "As for the person who did it no one has come forward and apologised to me so I guess the joke was good then."

In his new book, How To Be A Footballer , as quoted by The Daily Mail , Crouch has not only explained exactly what happened but also revealed who placed the pig’s head in Jones’s locker.


"There was a dark period at Stoke in 2013 that began innocently enough with Matty Etherington getting his new leather jacket flushed down the toilet," wrote Crouch. "It quickly got out of hand.

"Etherington decided to take his revenge by taking a load of mouldy fish-bits and putting them in Jon Walters’s shoes and car, who he suspected of the jacket theft. Walters escalated it by getting a severed pig’s head from a local butcher’s — still covered in blood — wrapping it in Matty’s jeans and putting it in his locker.

"Matty found it and put it in Glenn Whelan’s, except rather than Glenn Whelan’s he accidentally put it in Kenwyne Jones’s.

"Before you know it, Kenwyne has lost the plot and is putting a brick through Glenn’s car window, and Glenn is threatening to go round Kenwyne’s house."

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