Chelsea’s Peter Kenyon Prank Called by Steve Staunton Impersonator

By: Daryl | February 17th, 2009

There was a fantastic little wind up last week, when a prankster from Irish radio station FM104 called Chelsea Football Club to declare Steve Staunton’s interest in succeeding Big Phil Scolari.

If you’re not familiar with Staunton, he was the manager for Ireland’s less than successful Euro 20008 2008 qualifying campaign. In many ways, he’s the Irish answer to Steve McClaren, so I think it’s fair to say his application for the Chelsea job would be a little unrealistic.

But posing as an agent, FM104’s Terry managed to get on the phone with none other than Chelsea CEO Peter Kenyon, and discuss the terms of Staunton’s appointment. Audio of what happened after the jump…

There’s a bit of a long intro, but it’s definitely worth waiting to hear Kenyon patronize/tolerate “Staunton’s” request to discuss a salary. And fair play to Kenyon for not being a total sucker, and eventually figuring out what’s happening.

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• Mike |  February 17th, 2009 at 9:31 am

  
  
  

  lmfao. Genius, pure genius!

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• Stephen |  February 17th, 2009 at 9:34 am

  
  
  

  That’s brilliant!

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• Wayne Farry |  February 17th, 2009 at 10:00 am

  
  
  

  Absolutely brilliant…

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• Matt |  February 17th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

  
  
  

  Do I get my own tracksuit? Classic.

  And I love Kenyons near disgust when ‘Staunton’ mentions his previous salary. Hilarious.

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• Weston |  February 17th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

  
  
  

  when’s 20008? lol
  i love the radio pranks, here’s a good sarah palin one:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEwKcs-7Hc

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• Weston |  February 17th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

  
  
  

  aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• Weston |  February 17th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  
  
  

  i am so sorry! why does that keep happening? it says “no second chance” and doesnt post it, so i change something and it still tells me ive said it already and then they all come up at once. I’m sorry….

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• Laurie |  February 17th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

  
  
  

  Either our comments self-edit, or Daryl or Chris fixed it Weston, because it looks fine to me.

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• Weston |  February 18th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

  
  
  

  oh, good. it had about 5 copies of the same post with “this comment is awaiting approval” or something next to it. i guess it just doesnt like me.

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• Daryl |  February 19th, 2009 at 11:22 am

  
  
  

  “when’s 20008? lol”

  It’s a loooong time from now.

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