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How the Queen, a fox and British Telecom confused Kagisho Dikgacoi

Roy Hodgson didn’t know he’d set up Kagisho Dikgacoi for the fright of his life when signing him for Fulham in 2009. Instead, the then-Cottagers manager had innocuously swooped for an international who impressed for South Africa against Australia and, in Hodgson’s eye, fitted his team for their infamous 2009/10 Europa League final season.

Hodgson’s purchase also instigated a fight with future Fulham boss Scott Parker, mocking at the hands of a BT engineer and ruminations about the Queen’s flippant power in the United Kingdom.

But first, the fright of his life.

Dikgacoi arrived in London as a bullish enforcer with a growing reputation in his native South Africa.