Canada coach John Herdman was once hauled up before a Spanish judge after a joke about carrying a bomb onto a passenger jet backfired spectacularly.
County Durham-born Herdman, 47, was a teenager when he boarded a flight from Newcastle to Malaga in 1993 and caused a panic by telling the pilot shortly after take-off that he was carrying an explosive device and wanted to be taken to Beirut.
The pilot radioed Britannia Airways to ask for advice and was told to continue to his destination. Herdman, who was 17 at the time, was escorted off the plane by Spanish police and searched.
