As TV pranks go, it beats Jeremy Beadle's best capers hands down.
In 1997, Anders Limpar, then an Everton player, was fooled into believing he'd travelled two years into the future in a time machine as part of an incredibly elaborate and perfectly orchestrated ruse.
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