As the (golden) waters around the 'Dirty Dossier' on US President-elect Donald Trump get murkier and murkier, it appears the British spy behind the 'stream' of Moscow smears might have a secret dual allegiance and...support south London's top football side, Crystal Palace.
MI6 agent-turned-spy-for-hire Christopher Steele, aged 52, a twice-married father of three who was brought up in Surrey, established his own family home in the strong Palace-supporting territory of South Norwood in London's famed footballing magnet of SE25.
During a five-year period between 1993 - 1998 Steele was recalled to London by UK spy agency MI6 from the espionage-riddled Russian capital Moscow. He took up living a seemingly quiet suburban family life with wife Laura, having two sons, Matthew and Henry, in this seemingly idyllic period.
Could Steele and his growing sons have resisted the lure of Crystal Palace Football Club on their very own doorstep?
Then in 1998 this tranquil period came to an abrupt end as Steele's spymasters at MI6 dispatched their top Kremlinologist, with his family, to Paris, where he plied his trade for 4 years, before returning to England in 2002, and moving just a few miles from Palace hotspot Norwood to leafy secluded Epsom.
Perhaps not wanting to put too much distance between his family and the Crystal Palace football base at Selhurst, later still the Steeles moved only slightly further into the anonymity granted by living in the Surrey stockbroker belt town of Farnham, still a popular area for Crystal Palace fans.
Now just days from his Washington DC Inauguration, whilst US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin find themselves in the middle of a colossal international espionage plot centring on 'steamy' allegations of bizarre sexual practices, could the man who unleashed the whirlwind of conspiracy be a Crystal Palace fan?
MI6 agent-turned-spy-for-hire Christopher Steele, aged 52, a twice-married father of three who was brought up in Surrey, established his own family home in the strong Palace-supporting territory of South Norwood in London's famed footballing magnet of SE25.
During a five-year period between 1993 - 1998 Steele was recalled to London by UK spy agency MI6 from the espionage-riddled Russian capital Moscow. He took up living a seemingly quiet suburban family life with wife Laura, having two sons, Matthew and Henry, in this seemingly idyllic period.
Could Steele and his growing sons have resisted the lure of Crystal Palace Football Club on their very own doorstep?
Then in 1998 this tranquil period came to an abrupt end as Steele's spymasters at MI6 dispatched their top Kremlinologist, with his family, to Paris, where he plied his trade for 4 years, before returning to England in 2002, and moving just a few miles from Palace hotspot Norwood to leafy secluded Epsom.
Perhaps not wanting to put too much distance between his family and the Crystal Palace football base at Selhurst, later still the Steeles moved only slightly further into the anonymity granted by living in the Surrey stockbroker belt town of Farnham, still a popular area for Crystal Palace fans.
Now just days from his Washington DC Inauguration, whilst US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin find themselves in the middle of a colossal international espionage plot centring on 'steamy' allegations of bizarre sexual practices, could the man who unleashed the whirlwind of conspiracy be a Crystal Palace fan?
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