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Kids. Who'd have 'em. One moment you're changing their nappies and, before you know it, their monthly pay cheque is bigger than yours.
No mean feat if you're a kid whose dad is an agency boss. But Peter Crouch, the striker just sold by Portsmouth to Aston Villa for 5 million [pounds sterling], has just put himself in line for a salary even Michael Baulk wouldn't sneer at.
Dad in this case just happens to be Bruce Crouch, the former Bartle Bogle Hegarty executive creative director and a founding partner of Soul.
So where did the 6ft 5-inch 21-year-old--who scored 19 goals for Pompey after joining the club from Queens Park Rangers last summer -- inherit his ball-playing skills?
Apparently not from Crouch senior, a goalkeeper whose delusions of grandeur never got ...