While Ravel Morrison has been hogging the limelight over the last ten days, another West Ham player has been the talk of the town for various reasons.
Razvan Rat has been kicking up a storm too, but for completely different reasons to his team mate Ravel, with fans on Twitter having a field day over his various talking points.
Firstly, the bookmakers started taking bets on who would be Cheryl Cole’s new boyfriend, which included a variety of different celebrities and footballers. But the surprise inclusion was none other than Romanian captain Rat, who Coral priced at a very short 8/1 to be Cheryl’s latest man. And it didn’t take long for the news to spread on Twitter…
@1ammer @paddypower She's got 1 Rat in ex Ashley Cole surely she dont want anuvva Ratz??
— John Tatman (@jbmtat66) October 10, 2013
Razvan Rat is 8/1 on Paddy Power to be Cheryl Cole's new boyfriend... #GoOnSon
— West Ham News (@WHUFC_News) October 9, 2013
Then, after Andros Townsend’s fantastic England debut against Montenegro last Friday, Hammers fans took to Twitter again – this time to thank Rat for letting Townsend out of his pocket in order to play the World Cup qualifier, referring to the way the Romanian kept the winger quiet in West Ham’s 3-0 victory away to Tottenham the Sunday before…
https://twitter.com/Vincenzo_White/status/390202712736149504Mega hype around Andros Townsend being our big World Cup hope in the papers today. Let's hope we dont have to play Romania. #razvanrat
— Richard Osborne (@OzyOsborne) October 13, 2013
Razvan Rat needs to make a book to sell to right backs called " How to keep Andros Townsend in your back pocket"
— Harry (@Harry13Knight) October 11, 2013
It's a good thing Razvan Rat let Andros Townsend out of his back pocket to play tonight!
— Adam (@adamjkaine) October 11, 2013
And finally, the Hammers squad thought it would be funny to replace Rat’s number plate on his red Ferrari to ‘Roland Rat’ while he was away on International duty over the weekend – and the club’s official Twitter account published a picture of it for all to see, further adding to Roland’s week in the spot light…
PIC: Razvan Rat's team-mates thought it funny to put a new number plate on his 'Ratmobile'! #COYI pic.twitter.com/XQEPSJ0RhX
— West Ham United (@WestHam) October 17, 2013
BONUS TWEET!
To cap off a successful for the defender week as the talk of Twitter, it was revealed that Rat’s nickname – Roland – can be translated in to a completely different meaning in Romanian…
RAZVAN Rat is getting used to his West Ham team-mates calling him Roland – but in his own country his nickname translates to ‘Duck’. #WHUFC
— West Ham Transfers (@westhamtransfer) October 6, 2013
