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Transfer Deadline Day's top five CRAZIEST stories: From Peter Odemwingie rocking up at QPR uninvited, to Harry Redknapp pushing Benjani on to a plane and a FAX MACHINE messing up David de Gea's move to Real Madrid

Transfer Deadline Day has the habit of springing up some of football's most wacky and wonderful moments.

Something in the mix of desperation, emotions, and nostalgia fuels a self-fulfilling prophecy of it being the most dramatic day on the transfer calendar.

Plenty of scenarios could have made this list.

Leicester botched their £22m move for Adrien Silva in August 2017 because the paperwork arrived 14 seconds late, while unsuspecting Sky Sports reporter Alan Irwin once had an adult toy rammed in his ear while on air.

We've picked just a selection of five for this one, some of which are absolute classics and some of which are more obscure, which highlight the truly bonkers nature of transfer Deadline Day dealings.