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Footy large Peter Crouch tried to offer mouth-to-mouth CPR daughter’s pet hamster

Giant former footballer Peter Crouch tried to offer CPR to his daughter’s pet Russian dwarf hamster.

His mannequin spouse Abbey advised how the beanpole former England ace sobbed as he tried to deliver the critter, referred to as Katie, again to life. Sadly, his efforts had been in useless. She mentioned: “Peter had tears streaming down his face and was trying to give that tiny hamster mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.”

The former Liverpool and England striker, 42, mentioned somewhat than break daughter Sophia’s coronary heart, he additionally thought of shopping for a reproduction rodent. He mentioned: “It was tiny enough to fit in the palm of my hand.

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“I pumped away with my thumb, but Katie had passed on to the great hamster wheel in the sky. I took her to the vet and pretended to Sophia that they could make sure Katie went to hamster heaven.

“It occurred to me that I could swap her for a new hamster and say that she’d been resurrected like Jesus, but it proved impossible to get a like-for-like replacement.”

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Peter Crouch battled desperately to keep Katie the hampster alive
Peter Crouch battled desperately to maintain Katie the hampster alive

Away from making an attempt to revive ailing hamsters, Crouch has been having fun with a spot snooker this week, attending the Masters at Alexandra Palace with TNT Sports punditry colleague Joe Cole.

The duo have shortly cultivated a following as a double act and sometimes crew up for extracurricular expeditions. Their newest outing at Ally Pally noticed a minimum of one fan bestow the previous England internationals with an unlucky set of nicknames.



Peter Crouch and Joe Cole at Snooker Masters
Peter Crouch and Joe Cole on the Masters snooker match

The World Snooker Tour posted an image of the pair stood alongside each other in a field with the Masters motion within the background. And the total scale of their peak differential was on full show as former Tottenham and Liverpool striker Crouch towered over ex-Chelsea and West Ham midfielder Cole, additionally 42.

“That wasn’t Joe Cole and Peter Crouch,” wrote one ruthless spectator in response. “It was just the cue and the cue ball.”