Bromley boss Andy Woodman left his former Newcastle United colleagues 'in tears' after falling victim to a prank call ahead of Sunday's FA Cup clash.

Woodman, who spent five years at Newcastle as the club's goalkeeping coach, will return to St James' Park for the first time as an opposition manager. Woodman's family will be there to see the third-round tie, including son Freddie, the Magpies' former 'keeper, and daughter Izzy, who also grew up in the city.

It fell to Woodman to try and sort tickets for those closest to him and the affable Londoner put a call in to Richard Hines, Newcastle's head of football administration. Although Woodman did not initially get through, the Bromley manager left a message hinting that he needed a favour. Hines phoned back just a few minutes later.

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"I pick up, but it sounds like an accidental call," Woodman told the Times. "There are voices in the background not realising they’ve dialled the number. I’m going, ‘Richie, Richie, it’s Woody here.’ I can hear him talking to Tommo, the kitman, and they’re going on about me: ‘What about Woody? Who does he think he is? Can you believe it, thinking he can get tickets, a table for lunch, places in a box? No one liked him when he was here. Everyone was happy when he left. Flash Cockney git.’

“They are battering me and I’m going, ‘Richie, Richie, it’s Woody,’ but I realise I’ve got this wrong. I thought they liked me. I put the phone down because I didn’t want to hear no more bad stuff about myself. I really did - I put the phone down. I was gutted. Then it rung again two seconds later. The two of them were in tears - they couldn’t breathe from laughing. I was so relieved.

“They said, ‘We’ve waited 10 years for that moment.’ They could not breathe, the two of them. They couldn’t believe they got me so easy. I mean the things they were saying about me - they were horrific - and I did believe them.”