Peter Crouch and the hysterical Portsmouth memory Liverpool and Tottenham favourite’s got game in stitches over

But standing conspicuously out among the wheels of Pompey’s Premier League millionaires was a motor like no other.

The vehicle in question helps create a snapshot of life at the Blues’ ramshackle Eastleigh training ground at a time when it played host to the likes of Sol Campbell, Lassana Diarra, Kanu, David James & Co.

Now, thanks to former Fratton favourite Peter Crouch, memories of a car which channelled two of our favourite TV series of yesteryear have resurfaced and causing much mirth among football fans.

Crouch has recounted how back in 2008, the squad under Harry Redknapp took it upon themselves to buy a Robin Reliant - made so iconic, of course, in classic BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses.

But it was another popular 80s show the FA Cup-winning group wanted reflected in the paintwork of the three wheeler, as the self-titled A-Team found a very unusual purpose for the classy vehicle.

Crouch explained that, after its purchase, the player deemed to have been the worst trainer of the week would have to ditch their shiny top-of-the range drive in favour of the A-Team mobile on a matchday.

Furthermore the shamed player would further be tasked with ‘pimping’ the car, whether that be with new speakers, a spoiler, alloy wheels or furry dice on the mirror.

The car was to have a long lifespan at Pompey’s Wellington Sports Ground home - as our video shows here.

Some three years later the legend that is Hermann Hreidarsson turned up with the A-Team-mobile with Pompey teetering on the financial precipice in 2012.

You can see that in our own video, though it may be worth underlining video footage quality on mobile phones have come a long way in the past 12 years!

Crouch, on his thriving That Peter Crouch Podcast, took the chance to let the wider football world know all about the existence of the classic Pompey motor.

He said: ‘Do you know at Portsmouth we had the A-Team band.

‘We used to call ourselves the A-Team, we got a three-wheeler and pimped it all up.

‘The worst player, who was voted on the Friday in training, would drive it into the games. They would add something to it - we turned it into the A-Team van.

‘It had a big speaker on the top of it blaring out the music of the A-Team. It had the best sound system you’d ever seen in it!’