City are taking their new commitment of working with the community a step further by making sure they continue their new policy of employing ex-offenders.

FFS can reveal to City fans that new signing Les Ferdinand was involved in that most heinous crime of all that rocked the nation...yes, it was he who was involved with the trashing of the Blue Peter garden in 1983!

The vandalism included trampled vegetation, a broken 100-year-old urn donated by a pensioner, a damaged plaque made by a handicapped child, and goldfish poisoned with oil. Percy Thrower, gawd rest his soul, the Blue Peter gardner, was never quite the same after declaring that the perpetrators "must be mentally ill, Janet".

Les Ferdinand admitted a couple of years back that he was in a gang with tw@tface Dennis Wise, (City's first unsuccesful ex-offender placement) when they were growing up in the area, saying;

"We used to get into a bit of bother around here."

When asked about the rumours that he and tw@t face were involved in the Garden incident, Ferdinand said

"We were just kids. I didn't do anything other than help a few people over a wall. It was just a bit of fun."

Wise's spokesman said: "Dennis was certainly not involved and had nothing whatsoever to do with it."

The BBC chose not to investigate.

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