English footballer Andy Carroll has given evidence in court after a gun-wielding motorcyclist tried to rob him of his watch at traffic lights last year.
The West Ham striker was returning home from his club's training ground when he was chased by two motorcycles, Basildon Crown Court heard.
Jack O'Brien, 22, denies attempting to rob the 28-year-old on 2 November 2016.
Carroll's emergency call was played to the jury, in which he was heard saying: "There's two motorbikes, one's behind me pulling out a gun, I don't know what to do."
Cars beeping can be heard in the background, with Carroll telling the call handler: "Oh s***, I've hit loads of cars, I don't know what to do, he's just hit my car."
Prosecutor Simon Gladwell told the court that two bikers chased Carroll after one approached him at a set of traffic lights in Hainault, northeast London, and demanded his £22,000 watch.
Carroll told the jury: "I just pulled up at the traffic lights, my window was open, a bike pulled up next to me and said 'nice watch'."
He said he replied "thanks" and told the court he thought he recognised the biker.
"He had his crash helmet on with his visor up," said Carroll.
"I stared at him for about 10 seconds as I thought I recognised him and thought he was going to have a conversation. I went to drive away and he said 'Give me your watch'."
He said to start with he "didn't know if it was a joke" but, when he did a u-turn, both bikes turned and followed him.
He eventually arrived back at the training ground and told the 999 operator there were security staff there.
At one point he tells the call handler: "I'm a Premier League footballer."
"I've probably just hit about 10 cars on the way here," he said.
Michael Edmonds, defending, said O'Brien, of Navarre Gardens, Romford, east London, was not the motorbike rider.
He said O'Brien had used the bike, jacket and helmet for crime before, but that it was not him using the motorbike on this occasion.
The trial continues and is expected to last three days.
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