The Athletic have revealed that Tottenham Hotspur will be taking two chefs with them to Norwich in order to avoid a repeat of the Lasagne-gate incident which occurred in 2006.
Spurs fans will never forget the Lasagne-gate incident when around 10 of the Lilywhites’ first-team players went down with suspected food poisoning ahead of the final match of the 2005/06 campaign.
Martin Jol’s men needed a win on the final day of the season at Upton Park to guarantee the club’s first-ever top-four finish in the Premier League era.
As Jermaine Jenas explains in the below video for CBS Sports Golazo, many Spurs players were sick all night ahead of the clash against the Hammers.
Michael Carrick wrote in his 2018 autobiography Between the Lines: “I’d never endured agony like this. It felt like a fire was lit in my guts with petrol poured on it again and again. The pain kept flaring up and I curled up in bed, praying for it to pass.”
Tottenham’s request to get the game postponed was turned down by the Premier League and an understrength Spurs side lost the game 2-1 while Arsenal’s 4-2 win over Wigan meant the Gunners qualified for the Champions League at their rivals’ expense.
The Athletic have revealed that a similar incident is unlikely to occur ahead of this weekend as Spurs generally take two chefs to away games to help oversee meal preparations at hotels.
MORE SPURS STORIES
It is explained that while they do lean on hotel staff to prepare meals for 50 people, the club’s own chefs oversee the process.
However, the report states that should a similar incident happen and a lot of Tottenham’s first-team players be unavailable for the clash at Carrow Road, the fixture is unlikely to get postponed.
This is because following the postponement of the North London Derby back in January, the Premier League are said to have altered their rules, with games only being postponed if there are a minimum of 4 Covid-19 cases in the squad.
Spurs Web Opinion
The 2005/06 campaign was only my second season as a Spurs fan and I remember being devastated at the end of the season.
We did not have anywhere near the same quality in our squad as Arsenal did at the time but we had done brilliantly to give ourselves a shot at the top four.
For it to be taken away from us in that cruel manner was hard to stomach (no pun intended) as I fully believe we would have beaten West Ham with a full-strength team.
Keep up to date with all the latest Tottenham news and opinion by following SpursWeb’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
