With friends like that . . . Fulham's American-born goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann must be well chuffed with team-mate Chris Coleman for having a chuckle at his expense in the press last week. Over to you Chris: "Marcus had a bit of a shocker when he tried to buy a new car recently. He found out about this Porsche that was for sale in Germany and bought it without actually seeing it - not always a good move. When it arrived, it turned out to be a bit of `cut and shut' job. The front was a Porsche all right - it's just that it was welded to the back half of a Ford Fiesta. He'll murder me for saying that but it had the lads in stitches." Half Porsche, half Ford Fiesta? The mind boggles.
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