If Joe Ledley hadn’t turned his mobile phone off when he did, he wouldn’t have joined Crystal Palace on the deadline day of the 2014 January transfer window.
“When I was on the plane I didn’t realise that something had gone wrong with the negotiations,” he begins to reveal.
“I landed in London, listened to my answerphone and there was one from my agent saying: ‘Look, it is not going to work.’ But when I called him, he explained that it had all been sorted out with Palace, everything was okay and we were going ahead.