FORMER Bury FC mascot Robbie the Bobby claims he has been offered a lucrative three-year contract with a top Premiership side.

The man inside the suit, Jonathan Pollard, has told the BEN that a club has approached him to cheer on their fans next season.

It follows Mr Pollard's sacking from the second division club after his on-pitch antics against Lincoln infuriated the referee -- and led to his SIXTH sending off.

The 26-year-old said: "A Premiership club has signed me up. I'll be doing just what I did with Bury but on a bigger stage."

But Mr Pollard has refused to name the club claiming it is one which has been in the Premiership for "as long as I can remember".

He said it is not Bolton Wanderers and that his new role will be made public in "about three weeks time".

That narrowed the clubs down to Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton with the possibility of Blackburn.

But with the latter two clubs denying all knowledge, United unavailable for comment, and Blackburn clueless as to who Robbie The Bobby or his alter ego actually is, the mystery continues.

A Liverpool spokesman said: "We don't have a mascot and as far as I am aware there are no plans to get one."

A spokesman at Everton's publicity office said: "The only person we could term as mascot is the Toffee Lady. We are not looking for an official one."

Mr Pollard said he missed being Robbie the Bobby and said reports he had given V signs to Lincoln supporters were "rubbish".

"Even the Lincoln captain jumped on the bandwagon saying I had sworn at him," he said. "It's all untrue."

The plumber claims he will have to leave his job to join the Premier side and that his contract would pay him more than he currently earns, an amount he did not divulge. The Bury FC deal paid him £20-a-game.

His football antics became world-famous with even American news station CNN interviewing him.

Before his sacking, he had mooned at Stoke City fans, broken the nose of Barclay the Bluebird at Cardiff City and tore the ears off Peterborough's Peter Barrow mascot.

His actions prompted the Football League to introduce a code of conduct for mascots.