Case of Mistaken Identity Prompts Chung-Yong Lee Rumour

Transfer silly season can suspend even the best judgement. Suddenly everyone is going everywhere, all for outrageous amounts of money. However sometimes things get just too silly. Today, a picture of Chung-Yong Lee at the Britannia was making the rounds on Twitter, which put the rumour machine in full effect, including apparently prompting Sky Sports News to post a transfer rumour story, Chung-Yong Lee to Stoke. Unfortunately for Stoke, that picture was not of the esteemed Chung-Yong Lee, but of some random Asian guy.

If you've spent any amount of time looking at Chungy (and I have spent rather a lot of time myself), it's immediately clear that this man is not the Korean super kid. The rumour in and of itself is understandable, Chungy is a player of immense talent, and it would not be surprising at all if he decided to move away from his relegated club. Earlier in the summer, Manchester United made a similar mistake, originally putting Park Ji-Sung's picture in place of their new signing Shinji Kagawa's. It's this sort of potential casual racism that really spices up the otherwise tedious transfer season.

If anyone has a screen shot of the story, we'd love to see it.