Why Adrian Chiles wore a West Brom coat to Liam Payne's funeral

Payne died aged 31 connected October 16 from a caput wounded aft falling from the 3rd level balcony of a edifice country helium was staying successful portion holidaying successful Buenos Aires.

He was laid to remainder contiguous (November 20) astatine a religion work held successful the Home Counties attended by his household and adjacent friends.

Among the mourners were Payne’s One Direction bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik.

While astir mourners opted for accepted astute achromatic attire, Chiles stood retired successful pictures sporting a Baggies agelong coat.

Payne - who was calved successful adjacent Wolverhampton - was a passionate shot instrumentality and a play summons holder astatine The Hawthorns.

Former Match of the Day 2 big Chiles - who is simply a presenter connected BBC Radio 5 Live - antecedently opened up connected aerial astir however their communal emotion of the beauteous crippled and the team, brought them together.

"I got to cognize him erstwhile helium archetypal did X Factor," Chiles, 57, explained.

"He came up to maine and said 'up the Albion' - helium was a West Brom fan. Just arsenic a motion arsenic to however monolithic helium was, I retrieve we snuck him into a Boxing Day crippled and I deliberation his mum and dada came and sat with me.

"But we managed to secrete our antheral up successful the commentary gantry truthful helium didn't get bothered. Then a person of excavation texted maine to inquire 'why are West Brom trending fig 1 connected Twitter?' I went, ‘well it could beryllium due to the fact that Liam Payne is present and helium tweeted helium was present and the full satellite went huffy for it.’"

Following Payne’s death, West Brom shared a tribute to him connected societal media.

“We’re shocked and saddened to larn of the passing of Baggies instrumentality and instrumentalist Liam Payne,” they wrote connected X, formerly Twitter.

“Our thoughts are with Liam’s family, friends and loved ones astatine this tragic time,” they added, followed by bluish and achromatic bosom emojis.