He laughed: “However, they were here very early. Six am visitors are quite rare and it was something of a surprise that two West Ham footballers should be here at that time. I recognised them as being Andy Carroll and Darren Randolph.”
However, a staff member at another stop on the journey – Voodoo Ray’s – a Pizza house in Shoreditch – explained that her experience was somewhat different when the pair arrived at around noon.
She said: “I’m not a football person so I wouldn’t have recognised them.”
When it was explained to her that one was of mixed race and the other a tall white man of around 6ft 5 in she immediately recalled an incident around noon.
She said: “Yes, the white guy was outside although clearly visible but the mixed race guy was incredibly abusive and in the end I had to call security to have him removed. They looked as though they had a night on the town and appeared to be pretty ropey.“
A West Ham United spokesman told ClaretandHugh: “The club will be looking into these allegations and will deal with the players as we see fit”
Above we publish a picture of the pair on their travels and bizarre tweets from Andy Carroll once the stories hit Twitter.