We've all been at a game and heard the PA announcer begin a sentence with, "Will the owner of a...".
It's a proper heart-in-mouth moment - even, for some reason, if you didn't travel in a car. 'Please not me. Please not me.'
What you never expect is that the car in question belongs to one of the players on the pitch, but that's precisely what happened during Rochdale's League One clash with Gillingham on Tuesday after Callum Camps had left his headlights on.
Moment of the season. Rochdale tannoy announces car reg with lights on. It belongs to player, game stopped while he pops off to get keys!
— Huey (@hueylad) April 19, 2016
I was listening because the ball was out of play, and as soon as I heard the [registration] I was thinking that’s my number plate,
Camps told BBC Manchester.
I thought I’d blocked someone in, so I said to [team-mate] Jamie Allen, ‘That’s my car, that’.
Camps revealed that he looked over to Rochdale's head of sports science Kevin Gibbons and asked him to sort it out, and Gibbons duly obliged.
Camps went on to score his side's goal in their 1-1 draw, which makes his performance pretty much the most remarkable comeback in the history of sport when you consider the psychological traumas he would have experienced at the voice of the PA.
H/T: BreakingNews.ie
