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Ben Foster has revealed the weird one-word team chat Carson Yeung gave to Birmingham city players as they battled relegation in 2011.
Alex McLeish’s team defeated Arsenal in the League Cup final at Wembley before being relegated from the Premier League to cap a turbulent season.
McLeish would later leave the club for archrivals Aston Villa and Yeung’s tenure as owner began to crumble.
He was eventually jailed for money laundering and sold the club to current owners Trillion Trophy Asia in October 2016.
And Foster, who spent only a season at St Andrew’s after joining Manchester United, has detailed a strange reunion with Yeung towards the end of the 2010/11 campaign.
Speaking to The Peter Crouch Podcast, Foster said: “That was the season we won the League Cup against Arsenal. That was one of my best moments in football, it was great.
“We had Carson Yeung, remember that guy? He only came to the stadium a few times to see the boys, but his English was zero, he couldn’t say anything, honestly.
“It was about two or three games before the end of the season and we are in trouble and facing relegation.”
“And they are gone, ‘The owner wants to come in and say a few words before the game to increase morale.’
“Eventually everything calmed down. All these guys came in and he came in. He’s kind of like Elvis, he has these targets … you know the pool officials wear white gloves? He has a pair of these white gloves. He wears, it must be an Elvis fanatic.
“Anyway, he comes in and you can see he’s nervous. Everything is calm and very strange. He doesn’t say anything and everyone thinks, ‘What’s going on?’ And eventually it just says ‘Win!’ – and that’s all he said: “Win”, and then stop and go.
“That was really all he could muster, ‘Win.'”
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