Watching Iraq I wondered what had happened to Alex Samizadeh. Turns out he was Iranian but his wiki page surprised me:

In October 2020 Samizadeh and three others were accused of providing Iranian nationals with false identification and travel documents, with a view to helping them enter the UK illegally. He stood for trial where it was stated he had a false identity known as Mohammad Hossein Samizadeh in Italy in which he would use to facilitate the illegal immigrations by opening them bank accounts and make travel arrangements by having them use the false identities. His laptop also contained images of other people's stolen passports. He denied all statements.^[14]

In 2023, while playing in Australia he is accused of conducting a crypo scam where he fled the country with investors money.

In 2024, he became the subject of another fraud investigation, relating to property management and in 2025 he was again investigated for fraud in relation to property and withholding deposits.

We've had a few bad lads over the years.

57 minutes ago, Carlos said:

I don’t think we played Derby and Blackburn in that era. I think he played for us at Deepdale, from memory. As he was confused by the “Chic chic chic Charnley” chant.

Well off you trot & check it up.