Greedy Yiddos

Gary Stevens Age : 30 Joined : 24 Jul 2007 Posts : 1798

It was like something out of Hansel and Gretel, with cakes and sweets, fattening foods and candy at every turn. But this wasn't a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked old woman, it was Tottenham Hotspur's training ground on Juande Ramos's first day as coach at the North London club.
So staggered were the new Spanish staff with what they came across in the club canteen that Ramos's endocrinologist Dr Antonio Escribano took photos of the buffet in case anyone refused to believe him, like a visitor to the zoo snapping away at a feasting hippopotamus. Rubbing his eyes and pocketing his camera, he gazed at a professional football team full of porkers - one that, he estimates, was a hundred kilos overweight. It was time to take action. And fast. Spurs's sweet-toothed stars didn't like it but the crash diet has worked wonders under the watchful eyes of Ramos, his No. 2 Marcos Ãlvarez, and Escribano, whose patented vegetable, carbohydrate, protein and fruit smoothies have taken over from the Mars Bars.
But the trio insist that the squad have some way to go before they reach their fighting weight and still can't quite believe what they were confronted with upon their arrival at Spurs Lodge in Chigwell.
"There were loads of sauces all over everything, plus cakes, chocolate muffins, a whole big box full of sweets," recalled Escribano. "And the truth is that when I saw the buffet for the first time I took photographs of it, because it was interesting."
"As soon as we arrived we realised that the team was carrying excess baggage," Escribano added - and he wasn't talking about their Louis Vuitton suitcases. "I made a very simple comparison with the Sevilla team that we had been working with, taking in mind the size of the players, and the difference was huge."
So too were the players. "The team," Escribano calculates, was "100 kilos overweight." He estimates that the squad have lost "between 40 and 50 kilos" in total but admits that getting the rest off will be harder. "We've turned a lot of fat to muscle," he says, "but there's still work to do and it gets more difficult from here."
"I compare it to Formula One," says Escribano. "You wouldn't just put any old petrol from a normal service station into a Formula One car. You give it a special kind of fuel. That's the case with food for a footballer - and for as long as they are footballers they need to understand that."
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Founding Father Joined : 05 Jun 2007 Posts : 3522

lolz....And the truth is that when I saw the buffet for the first time I took photographs of it, because it was interesting.

Gary Stevens Age : 30 Joined : 24 Jul 2007 Posts : 1798

I can understand that, I have an excellent collection of champagne buffet photos on display at home, beacuse they are interesting
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The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.

Gary Stevens Age : 30 Joined : 24 Jul 2007 Posts : 1798

Btw, pls get rid of Pleat and go back to the hideous creature in the library that you had on before. All I can think of looking at Pleat is the 3-4 FA Cup game against Man City
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The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.

Founding Father Joined : 05 Jun 2007 Posts : 3522

I have a series of etchings at home because they are interesting

Edgar Davids Joined : 06 Jun 2007 Posts : 3552

I have a photo collection of naked women at home because they are interesting.