"What I will say is I helped a few people over the wall, but I'm not at liberty to say whether Dennis Wise was one of them," said a cagey Les Ferdinand last week when he refused to confirm that the Chelsea legend helped his gang vandalise the Blue Peter garden in 1983. We've learnt that a garden gnome was smashed to bits that day so, if Dennis WAS involved, at least it can be said he picked on someone his own size.