Anti-vax campaigners managed to target the wrong house when they attempted to 'serve papers' on Newcastle United and England legend Alan Shearer.
The Premier League's all-time leading goalscorer urged football fans and the wider public to get their coronavirus jab in a video that was shared by the Premier League last week.
His involvement led anti-vaccine protesters to film them outside an address near Newcastle they believed to be Shearer's family home.
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In the video, which has been widely shared on social media, three men and a woman as well as the person behind the camera gather outside a gated property and post documents into an external letterbox after pressing an electronic buzzer.
Whie anti-vax protesters often share templates of fake legal documents they then film themselves depositing, it is unclear what the papers contained.
The man who posted the documents says on the video: “Everyone is going to get this, every celebrity, sick of yous.
“Just causing more trouble for us, lies, all lying.
“That’s the truth in that letterbox there, in Alan Shearer’s f****** house.”
But a commenter on the group’s Facebook post suggested Shearer no longer lived at the property.
And a local person who has seen the video told the PA News agency: “That’s an old address they have for him.”
In the video encouraging people to get vaccinated, Shearer said: “We all want to keep safe on a matchday and the best way we can protect ourselves and other people is to get vaccinated.”
Northumbria Police said it had no involvement in the incident.
Previous targets of anti-vaccination protestors’ supposed legal papers include hospitals and the broadcaster Jeremy Vine.
Lawyer Adam Wagner, a human rights expert and commentator on Covid legislation, poured scorn on the anti-vaccination protesters’ claims of using the law.
The Doughty Street barrister said: “It is difficult to overemphasise how spurious it all is.
“It is wrong and should not be indulged by anyone.
“This is so far down into the depths of legal fantasy, people should not be doing it, no-one should be sharing it.
“People who might genuinely have issues with vaccination should not be taken in by this.”
He said people who believed these documents had a basis in law might as well be “dressing up as Professor Dumbledore and saying magical spells”.
Later, Gary Lineker tweeted about the incident saying: “Wrong house, wrong cause, all kinds of wrong.”
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