A senior Newcastle United player 'felt the wrath' of Brian Kilcline and his wife after cutting the cult hero's hair on an end of season trip.
That is according to former team-mate Alan Thompson, who was among those present in Ayia Napa when Newcastle celebrated promotion to the Premier League in 1993. One particular team bonding 'session' infamously went wrong after a brave individual decided to target Kilcline's prized locks when he fell asleep.
Kilcline previously told ChronicleLive 'the only time I had a bad time was when I had my hair cut' and the identity of the culprit remained something of a mystery for many years. Former Newcastle defender Barry Vension previously said 'if someone wants to accuse me of doing it, I will take the blame' and, clearly, it was not one of the club's younger players who picked up the scissors as Thompson explained.
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"Killer thought it was myself, Lee Clark, Steve Watson, Robbie Elliott - he thought it was the young lads," Thompson told the Fore Four 2 podcast. "We were a young clique who didn't really socialise with them. We went and did our own thing. Whatever bars and clubs we went to, they went to a different set-up.
"He thought it was the young clique so we had to go on the missing list because he was on the prowl looking out for us. The first-team coach was Derek Fazackerley. Derek had to calm him down and explain to him it wasn't the young lads.
"It was a senior pro so we got off with it. Killer then turned his attention to who it was. Not only did they get the wrath of Killer. When they landed back at Newcastle Airport, his missus wasn't happy, either, so the lad who did it got double whammied. Who did it? I don't know if I can say."
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