Peter Crouch has been discussing ex-Tottenham teammate Benoît Assou-Ekotto. The left-back kept 42 clean sheets and scored 4 goals at his time at White Hart Lane but according to Crouch he wasn’t interested in Football.
Crouch spoke to MailSport and said: “He would tell us straight out that he had no interest in football whatsoever. He genuinely didn’t like it. At 1.30pm on a Saturday he’d have no idea which team you were playing. ‘But Benoît, we’ve been talking about them in training all week…’
And so to his pre-match meal. Now none of us are adventurous. It’s pasta, chicken, no sauce, and has been for the past 20 years. Benoît would turn up with a Tesco’s bag containing the same four items every time: a croissant, a hot chocolate, a full-fat Coke and a packet of crisps. The croissant I understood. He is French-Cameroonian. The hot chocolate: same cultural backstory. He used to dip the first into the second. But the crisps, and the Coke — it was like two discrete lunches, one belonging to a middle-aged Parisian and the other a 12-year-old on the Seven Sisters Road.
And it worked. He was always in great shape and rarely injured. We accepted it, along with all the other weirdness: the random cars he would turn up to training in, sometimes a Smart car, then a Lamborghini; the way he would refuse to take ice baths for recovery, on the rather basic premise that they were ‘too cold’. Benoît was a really weird guy but we loved him a lot.”
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