Mark Noble has revealed that he left former West Ham United teammate James Tomkins 'fuming' after flying a drone over his house.
The Hammers skipper played with Tomkins at the London Stadium between the years of 2008 and 2016, when Tomkins completed a move to Crystal Palace. Despite moving clubs, the defender still lived close to Noble, giving the Hammers legend a chance to terrorise his former teammate using a drone.
Talking to the BBC , Noble recalled the time that he flew the drone over Tomkins' house.
"James Tomkins used to live about 10 doors down from me and I'd just bought a new drone," he said.
"So I flew my drone down to his house, obviously not thinking and he was in the back garden in his Crystal Palace tracksuit.
"Me and my so were in my garden looking on the phone at the drone and you could see that he got really angry that the drone was in his garden, so he started swearing at my drone.
"He turned around and picked up lumps of coal from his barbecue and started throwing them at the drone.
"Obviously he was at Palace at the time, so I didn't even text him to say it was me..
"I came in the next day and was telling the lads and was laughing.
"About two months later Andy Carroll bumped into him in a hotel in London and told him that it was me. He rang me and he was fuming.
"He thought someone was trying to burgle his house."
