“Has any club accidentally signed completely the wrong player, due to a mix-up with the names or something like that?” asks Brandon Martin-Moore.
The most famous story of mistaken identity is almost certainly an urban myth. The yarn goes that, when Milan signed Luther Blissett from Watford in 1983, they thought they were buying John Barnes. We covered this in the Knowledge many moons ago, and nothing much has changed. But there are cases of clubs committing human error in more ways than one.
