Did Prince Rajcomar run off Ron Martin's war-chest?

After a week of intense investigations, the Southend Afternoon Echo Sportsdesk is ready to exclusively spill the beans on the story behind why triallist Prince Rajcomar might have failed to turn up for a reserve team game against Northampton.

The trail began last week when the club's official web-site announced Prince in Trial to Become King. For once scooping rather than copying the Echo, the club web-site named Prince Rajcomar, a former Holland u21 international, in the starting XI to play Northampton Town Reserves at Roots Hall that afternoon.

However come game time, it was Blues youngster, Harry Crawford playing in his place. This set tongues wagging and sparked a Southend Afternoon Echo Sportdesk investigation that has produced some astounding findings.

• Prince Rajcomar's full name is "Prince Linval Reuben Mathilda Rajcomar".

• Prince Linval Reuben Mathilda Rajcomar is the type of exotic name used by Nigerian 419 scammers.

• 419 scammers are skilled at writing letters offering extravagant promises that are too good be to true, such as their client played for the Dutch u21 side.

• Southend chairman Ron Martin has experience of being an entirely innocent victim in a fraud case - remember that Gloucestershire Councillor when Chairman Ron was innocent but was arrested and questioned. This suggests that he might be easily duped. As does that Richie Foran transfer fee and contract.
  

• Sources (wikipedia, no less) suggest this is not the first time that Rajcomar has failed to turn up, following an incident when he failed to play at Carlisle due to "visa" problems. This pattern of unreliability is probably consistent with that of a 419 scam artist.

• "Sorry I got the wrong airport" is a particularly lame excuse.
  

All the above evidence leads the Southend Afternoon Echo to fear that Southend United may have fallen victim to an elaborate hoax. Did Ron Martin provide details of the club's bank account and non-existent overdraft? Has Prince Rajcomar siphoned off the infamous war-chest? Will this Rajcomar character ever be seen again? Will the war-chest ever be seen again? How exactly does one manage to turn up to the wrong airport? What has been stolen from a garden shed in Southchurch? [Ed - that's been answered it's lead story on page 4]

At the time of going to print, the Southend Afternoon Echo had been unable to receive reassurance that all this was made up nonsense, probably because we did bother to contact the club, who we are no longer speaking terms with, following an article which libelled Ron Martin's hair.