"SO TELL ME...WHO DID WIN THE RUMBELOWS CUP THE END?"

Returning to the White House this month, Donald Trump will be central to next year's World Cup. His football/soccer links go back decades, via Saint & Greavsie, a possible Rangers takeover... and reports of a six-match stint as Wolves' youth-team goalkeeper

- Chris Flanagan

"IN GOAL TODAY: DONNY TRUMP..."

When Donald Trump was re-elected as US president in November, pictures resurfaced from an edition of Shoot! magazine in November 1991, which sensationally claimed: 'Billionaire tycoon Donald Trump once played six games in goal for Wolves' youth team while his American Air Force father was based in the Midlands'.

It certainly sounded like a good story, although quite how talented a goalkeeper the Don would have made is unclear, considering his infamously tiny hands. He would have been pretty vulnerable on free-kicks, too, given his habit of only half-building a wall.

Yet the story didn't end there, with Shoot! asserting at the time that 'one of the racehorses at Trump's New York stables is a three-year-old filly called Molineux Mayde'.

First problem: Trump has only ever been involved with one racehorse, DJ Trump (obviously), which reportedly contracted a virus and never raced. It's unknown whether Don blamed that particular virus on China and suggested injecting the horse with bleach.

Second problem: Trump's father, Fred, was never in the American Air Force, and even if he had been, he would have been approaching 60 when Donald was old enough to feature for Wolves' youth team. All evidence points to fake news.

ROBERT DE NIRO'S STAND-IN

Just weeks after the original Shoot! claim, Trump was on UK TV screens, presiding over the draw for the 1991-92 Rumbelows Cup quarter-finals. This was the season when the competition went a bit mad, bolting on the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge as well, where players from Football League teams competed against each other in 100m races a hamstring ping waiting to happen.