We’ve said it before and we’ll no doubt say it again. Football fans are a bloomin’ curious subspecies.

With his beloved team desperately short on fire power so far this season, one Newcastle fan hatched a fiendish masterplan in a desperate attempt to entice Leicester City goal-machine Jamie Vardy to St James’ Park in the transfer window.

The lone wolf’s plan in its entirety: Throw a Newcastle shirt over Vardy’s garden wall and hope for the best.

Sadly, it just led to Vardy’s bemused girlfriend Tweeting a photo of the shirt draped forlornly in the shrubbery…

To whoever put this over our wall… Absolute #banter 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/7kqTfnfbfJ — Bex (@Bexxxnic) January 5, 2016

Baffling. Truly baffling.