After being unable to find a new club over the course of pre-season following his release by Plymouth Argyle, Reuben Reid has signed for Exeter City - giving Saturday's derby between the Pilgrims and the Grecians an extra twist.
Whilst throughout the history of professional football in Britain many players have joined their team's most hated rivals, ranging from Sol Campbell to Nick Barmby to Denis Law, but not many have done so - to the best of your correspondent's knowledge - when the two teams in questions are about to play each other.
Another interesting angle on this deal is that Reid has netted five goals against City for Argyle in the past three seasons - including a hat-trick in 2015, which made him the first player to do so in that fixture since 1929 when Ray Bowden hit a treble for the Pilgrims. He also laid on the assist for Jamille Matt's opener at St James Park last season before Ollie Watkins netted with two stunning strikes to seal a dramatic late win for the Grecians.
The deal is subject to FA and Football League approval, but looks set to completed in time for Saturday and it will be interesting to see if Exeter manager Paul Tisdale includes in his match-day squad.
Once he appears for the Grecians Reid will become the most recent player to join the select band who have played for all three Devon professional sides, as he also had a loan spell with Torquay United earlier in his career.
