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Tottenham players were being sick in the toilets before kick-off... once the game started it was carnage, Jermaine Jenas reflects on 2006 'Lasagnegate' at West Ham
Jermaine Jenas has revealed that it was 'carnage' for him and his Tottenham team-mates before and during their defeat at West Ham on the final day of the 2005-06 season due to food poisoning.
Despite Jermain Defoe's effort, goals from Carl Fletcher and Yossi Benayoun saw Spurs miss out on a place in the Champions League as bitter rivals Arsenal won 4-2 against Wigan.
Tottenham's 2-1 loss at West Ham has always been shrouded in controversy with the former's squad claiming to have suffered food poisoning the night before.
And writing in his column for Yahoo, Jenas has confirmed those notions that they were indeed unwell the night before after eating at their team hotel.
'As a member of the Spurs team beaten at Upton Park in the infamous "Lasagnegate" match on the last day of the 2005-2006 season, when the bulk of our squad went down with food poisoning, you could say this derby will always have a special resonance with me - as it will for anyone who experienced that day,' the 33-year-old wrote.
'The silly thing is that for a game against West Ham we would have normally just stayed at home because it was a local derby, but because it was such a crucial game the club put us in a hotel because they wanted us to be together.
'Lasagne and spaghetti Bolognese were on the menu, we ate, and then in the middle of the night we started dropping like flies. It was mayhem. The club tried to get the match called off, but in vain, so we just had to play through it feeling like death. A lot of the lads were running on empty - literally. Even while the gaffer Martin Jol was giving his team talk before the game, players were being sick in the toilets. Once the game started players were literally running off the pitch. It was carnage.
'By the end of it we felt so horrific that the fact we had just lost out on the Champions League, on the last day of the season, to Arsenal, with West Ham in the next room having the biggest party ever, was almost of secondary importance.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-2006-Lasagnegate-West-Ham.html#ixzz41ggFwiAK
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- Tottenham lost 2-1 at West Ham on the final day of the 2005-06 season
- Defeat saw Spurs miss out on qualifying for a Champions League place
- Spurs claimed several members suffered food poisoning the night before
- Jermaine Jenas says that several players were being sick before kick-off
Jermaine Jenas has revealed that it was 'carnage' for him and his Tottenham team-mates before and during their defeat at West Ham on the final day of the 2005-06 season due to food poisoning.
Despite Jermain Defoe's effort, goals from Carl Fletcher and Yossi Benayoun saw Spurs miss out on a place in the Champions League as bitter rivals Arsenal won 4-2 against Wigan.
Tottenham's 2-1 loss at West Ham has always been shrouded in controversy with the former's squad claiming to have suffered food poisoning the night before.
And writing in his column for Yahoo, Jenas has confirmed those notions that they were indeed unwell the night before after eating at their team hotel.
'As a member of the Spurs team beaten at Upton Park in the infamous "Lasagnegate" match on the last day of the 2005-2006 season, when the bulk of our squad went down with food poisoning, you could say this derby will always have a special resonance with me - as it will for anyone who experienced that day,' the 33-year-old wrote.
'The silly thing is that for a game against West Ham we would have normally just stayed at home because it was a local derby, but because it was such a crucial game the club put us in a hotel because they wanted us to be together.
'Lasagne and spaghetti Bolognese were on the menu, we ate, and then in the middle of the night we started dropping like flies. It was mayhem. The club tried to get the match called off, but in vain, so we just had to play through it feeling like death. A lot of the lads were running on empty - literally. Even while the gaffer Martin Jol was giving his team talk before the game, players were being sick in the toilets. Once the game started players were literally running off the pitch. It was carnage.
'By the end of it we felt so horrific that the fact we had just lost out on the Champions League, on the last day of the season, to Arsenal, with West Ham in the next room having the biggest party ever, was almost of secondary importance.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-2006-Lasagnegate-West-Ham.html#ixzz41ggFwiAK
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
