Did Lasagne cost Tottenham the Champions League?
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In 2006 Tottenham Hotspur were on the brink of qualifying for the Champions League, for the first time since 1962. All they needed was a win on the final day of the season.
Instead, they got sick.
The cause - a suspected poisoned lasagne. Seb Stafford-Bloor retells the story and the investigation that followed. Illustrated by Craig Silcock.
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Lasagna gate forever haunts every tottenham fan. Whenever a big game comes up i fear our players will just start spewing out of nowhere
Tbh, Anyone who chooses Lasagne over steak is already ill - just in the head. 😊
Do spurs fans eat lasange? Or is it tainted for life???
To be honest they lose every big game that would result in a trophy regardless of spewing out or not.
@@outofthetrash5925 strongly disagree.
@@aldobonaso3481 sicko 😂
The restraint from Joe Devine to declare “The lasagne was innocent” with all the gravitas of a BBC News reporter is incredible
I could hear the smile that crept across his face when he said that
Is Joe Devine the narrator in the video?
You could buy a dodgey lasagna for $1.50 in football manger games
Makes half the team injured for the next match
I pray that's true.
@@PaddyMcMecan confirm 😃 it might still be an option in the iOS Touch version
*SPOILER WARNING
my favourite part was hearing joe say the phrase 'the lasagne was innocent'
4:48
I had actually never heard before the Lasagna had been absolved. Good to know. Off to new disappointments!
Actually, the lasagne was guilty - of being delicious.
Sorry. Just a bit of mirth 5:24
They tried to do my boi lasagna dirty
I LAUGHED AT THE SAME THING
I was like "ah schmuck, they didn't arrest the lasagna"
I don't particularly care for either team but I think the PL handled this extremely poorly.
Spurs had more than enough healthy players to fulfil the fixture, and that was the main thing. The Premier League followed their rules. What do you think Arsenal would have said if the Premier League had set aside their own rules and it led to Spurs qualifying for the Champions League instead of them?
Edit to add, because I know someone will question it, I'm not from England, I don't support either side or any English club. I just remember the incident very well.
@@gordon1545 Well, you say this, but then in the 21-22 season, while Arse had enough players to field a squad, they had lost quite a few not to COVID, but due to suspension, playing in AFCON, and other non-injury and illness reasons. And the Prem let them reschedule matches so they'd be able to field a more competitive squad.
So, even though "they have their rules" the apply them inconsistently, and that's why it's easy for me to declare to lay blame at the feet of the PL.
@@imightbebiased9311lasagna gate was literally end of the season game and spurs had enough players to fulfill the match it would've been unfair to arsenal for them to suffer due to the poor food choices of spurs players.
@@imightbebiased9311so did notably the likes of Liverpool and others during the Cov-19 period…. So what’s your point? Poor example.
@@imightbebiased9311 The final game of the season has to be played at the same time, so delaying the match was harder to justify since they wouldn't be able to all play at the same time unless they postponed all 9 other games which also wasn't gonna happen. I'm sure if it wasn't the last game of the season it would've been postponed
The story on the latest season of the Peter Crouch podcast was brilliant. They even got the original chef to debunk the claims.
It was Harry Kane. Claiming what wasn’t his as per usual. In this case Moura’s spot in the line up who had the tournament of his life.
What are you on about?
He's probably talking about the CL final against Liverpool. Didn't watch the video, clearly.
@@bigishdave1862 are you in love with harry kane
@@bigishdave1862 NNNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYAAAAOOOOWWWWWWWW
I don't think a replay would have been a good idea, once it's been played it's been played but the failure of the premier league to postpone the game when West Ham were gracious and understanding enough to accept a reschedule just goes to show how ungracious and unaccepting the premier league were and often still are with some of their poor decisions over the years.
I'll start by saying I am an Arsenal supporter so my bias is clear. Had this game not been the season finale, there is no doubt it would have been postponed or possibly replayed. But the last games of the PL season are played simultaneously to avoid backroom deals. At that time, causing Arsenal to not make the Champions League the next year would have been a win for every other London-based team. It would have meant taking down one of the Big Four (Arsenal Man United, Liverpool, Chelsea) at the time. Any of the other 15 teams would have jumped at the chance to bring one of them down.
The ONLY fair change that could have been made would have been delaying ALL other kickoffs. And that was near logistically impossible as it would have required Arsenal to agree as a hosting location.
I still chuckle whilst at a restaurant and I see lasagne on the menu to this day.
@@belve10The match against Spurs was dead rubber for WHU so they could've let Spurs win and qualify for UCL even when all the matches were played simultaneosly. Wigan also weren't involved in any last round scraps so those matches could've been easily postponned without fears of match-fixing.
@@Lovro00000 That would not be fair for the fans who had traveled to see their team only to hear that the match was postponed becouse Spurs was not feeling well
And yet matches are often postponed due to poor visibility, water logged pitch or frozen pitch and supporters will have already travelled on those days.
@@eldante4139 That's because the games literally can't go ahead?
"The lasagne was innocent!" Not a sentence you hear everyday 😂
A lasagne is innocent until proven guilty
@@shesh32even when proven guilty. It's still innocent. Just ask Garfield
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"There was an Arsenal Fan in the Kitchen"
You should have showed a picture of Robbie from AFTV in a chef's hat 👨🍳
😂
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Those clowns are an embarrassment to Arsenal Football Club.
Oh my that would’ve been so funny 😂
lmfao 😂😂
tottenham is simply unbeliviable, i cant imagine this story happening to any other club besides tottenham
i guess some things can only happen to spurs
Do you remember this incident when it happened?
@@MontfortracingI was the chef who cooked the lasagne. My name in Napoleon and I'm 246 years old.
I feel bad for making fun of Spurs now.
@@hkar4385 Most cursed club.. few years after this incident i remember us finishing 4th, gaining champions league football only for Chelsea, who finished 6th, to go on and win the CL that year and give them an automatic qualification at our expense. Rules changed following year.. Same with 2019 handball decision in the CL final, Mane aimed for Sissoko's armpit and it was given.. again, rules changed following year.
@@Ackz89 I'll hate that ref until the day I die. Calling an armpit a handball that quickly within the match absolutely killed us.
This is why teams now bring their own food when going elsewhere in Europe mostly now.
Or if they don't they bring their own chef who goes and buys/makes stuff locally so there's an extremely low chance of it being tampered with.
Wasn’t it norovirus though? Nothing to do with the food.
@@borismuller86 Spurs don't believe that, they think something else undetectable was involved. Norovirus shouldn't affect that many players that badly and that quickly.
Also its a wake up call that some fan could easily wipe out literal millions by tainting food.
@@myopiniondoesntmatter7068 true, and norovirus could have been introduced via the food I suppose.
Bringing their own chef really makes sense given how much nutrition is important at that level of competition.
@@dorgeshuun plus athletes are often superstitious, so knowing they’re eating exactly the same thing as usual probably helps their confidence.
Wait it was norovirus? I'm impressed those players managed to play at all. I wouldn't wish norovirus on my worst enemy
How do you catch it? (I don't want to give google silly ideas)
@@1258-Eckhart person to person is most common form of transmission. It's extremely contagious and is spread from vomit or faecal matter (this includes particles in the air and it doesn't take much)
@@thomas878 Thanks. I once fell into the R. Soar (nicknamed "Sewer") downstream of Leicester and spent three solid days wretching grimly. Now I know (for the 1st time) why.
Shows somewhat how times have changed when you compare the many games cancelled and rescheduled the season before last due to one or two players having Covid, albeit not on the final day I guess. I wonder if this happened in the modern day whether the EPL would reschedule, certainly it feels more likely than it did back then.
A word for Martin Jol too, the guy who really helped set Spurs off on their journey back towards the upper reaches of the EPL, the manner in which he was dispatched of on a UEFA Cup night still leaves a bad taste.
Levy being Levy.
final day is the big glaring obvious reason here. I do believe that the PL would allow this game to be postponed if it were any other gameweek.
They were not end of the season games like that one.
Why would spurs let their players have pasta and lasagna buffet night before a match, let alone an important one?
yeah no chance they would reschedule
So what/who was the source of the norovirus? Food/drink can still be contaminated by norovirus. A staff member could have contaminated food or utensils.
Exactly
that's almost impossible to prove
Still have me in stitches, this story.
Now we know why Arsenal signed Sagna a short while later.
I think the video could have done a better job explaining how furious the fans were and how it sowed distrust between spurs and PL that's never really healed.
No. Because then the video would have looked like it was written by a Spurs fan.
The reality is the PL did the right thing. They were in a no-win situation. Regardless of which decision they made, either Spurs or Arsenal would have been upset. And to avoid setting a bad precedent, making a decision that avoided a final game of the season from being played outside of every other seemed like the safest bet since Spurs could play the match, just not completely fit.
@TheCollateraldamage1 So why didn't they add that 'though spurs and their fans were not happy, the PL were in a no win situation?' They're missing an element here, and just saying nothing does not equate to good journalism.
Because it’s obvious from the context
@@teedoification because they expect most 5 year olds to not be on CZcams.
@@TheCollateraldamage1 West Ham were happy to postpone so why wasn't the premier league? you think they want the fairest outcome?? haha all they care about is money
If Tottenham faced a disaster because of a ridiculous reason or internal incompetence, there is a 200% chance of the story being true.
I think it's funny how, back then, UEFA didn't have a proper rule to "what happens if the winners don't qualify through their League?", considering that, back in the day, "being the defending champions" was the *only* way you could qualify without doing so through the League
Liverpool won the Champions League and they ended up having to play all of the qualifying rounds from the start of July because UEFA were confused around what to do 😂
@@no.fourteen9316 Yeah, that was weird. Like, did they seriously think there was no way for this to happen? Even if they thought "there's no way a team from a top League would win the Champions League and then fail to even be 4th in its League", feels like they should have known this would have eventually happened.
"It was worth it" - Garfield the Cat
Lasagna ooooohhhh oh
Lasagna ooooohhhh oh
We laughed ourselves to bits
When Tottenham got the sh…
The Spursiest story of them all
wait til you hear about 2012
I will spurs in your toten
What people forget is that arsenal were moving into a brand new stadium the very next that crippled their finances, making champions league football an absolute must to keep any of their top players, and arsenal chairman david dein was also vice chairman of the FA at the time, and the england squad for the world cup was announced that very evening containing a 16/17 year old theo Walcott who had never even started a premier league game in his career at that point totally relegating the tottenham poisoning story from the back page headlines, a lot of very dodgy coincidence around that whole situation, a little context goes a long way, its at the very least eerily suspicious
What a memory. Loved every moment of it.
Who didnt love it lol
Absolutely superb video. The green faced Michael Carrick zooming across the screen was hilarious.
"The lasagna was innocent"
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😂😂😂😂
Inconsistent suggestion that Spurs players were incapacitated but still managed to keep the game tight and only lose by the odd goal with the winner scored in the last ten minutes. West Ham were a good side that season and took Liverpool to penalties a week later in the cup final with only a miraculous last minute of extra time save by Reina and last minute goal from Gerrard keeping the hammers from winning it.
A story with many layers.
😂
Creative joke 😂
Can't believe that was 2006!
There are so many layers to this story!
Lasagne woah! ♪
Lasagne woah!
We laughed ourselves to bits,
When Tottenham had the s**ts,
Lasagne woah!
i totally remember this incident...lol, martin jol was *not happy.* when so much is at-stake, you gotta be extremely careful about getting your food, and water, and sleeping arrangements, otherwise that's a weak link that _will_ be exploited by opponents, or opposing fans.
“Praying for it to pass” I know the feeling lol
Can you make a video on use and popularity of 343 /3223formation now instead of the previous 433/4231 formation
Sad year for both teams in the end
"Arsenal and Tottenham were in a head to head battle for 4th place"
Lolol you can't find a more fitting statement
What a lovely story
Lasagna gate and pizza gate arsenal do like to be involved in italian food controversy. 😂
What's next on the menu I wonder 🤔 ravioli gate? Or canoli gate
This video has popped up while I’m having lasagna for dinner and while sky spots is showing the arsenal game from that lasanga weekend. Spooky
if that was the case about the qualifying places for the champions league how come both everton and liverpool got to play champions league football that season?
Hi,will you guys make a video on Szobolzai?I am just curious how would a system with both him and Mac Alister will work pressing and defensive wise. Thanks
Damn! Blaming the Lasagne is more than Spursy 😂
They only lost to West Ham 2-1 even with the incident. With a normal team they would have been in UCL. Not funny to make fun of people's misfortunes
Why didn’t you do subtitles on this ? Can’t understand half the video
So my favourite dish cost a tournament to a rival team? AMAZING!
But it did help a bigger rival!
The fact that you consider the spurs as a rival shows the current deplorable state of chelski
the video categorically states that ‘the lasagne was innocent’. Don’t think you watched it mate.
@@Wydad_forza12th
The fact that they let their players eat a buffet full of heavy food at night before a match is idiotic.....
This should be Jol's and Spurs fault who let this happen. They cant blame the Lasagne.
true
this is probably the most notable thing to happen in Kevin Lasagna's career. He's out on loan in Turkey these days, hardly turning up any trees.
"The lasagna was innocent." OK, but where did the norovirus come from if NOT the hotel/restaurant that provided the food? Seems like they got off easy.
Well, we had a choice of steak or fish. Rumack : Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna...
This is the most spursy way to lose a ucl final 💀
Garfield love it
BRING BACK THE PODCAST
I honestly thought this was gonna be about how Tottenham 2018 before the uefa final had some sort of Lasagna cooking sponsor or event and the players got too much calories intake...
Would they have stopped the game if all the players started throwing up in the field, in order to showcase the severity of the situation?
They will forever blame us for that lasagne. And I will always love it as an Arsenal fan 😂😂
And it doesnt even matter if Arsenal qualify for CL or not because all they do is bottle in CL.
@@edenhazard2751 you’re a Chelsea fan. Why are you here bruv?
@@edenhazard2751but they DID reach the final in 2006, the very year this incident took place.. which isn't THAT bad..
@@edenhazard2751 perhaps they should have bought a title with Kremlin blood money instead eh?
@@RD-zx6py lol what about Kroenke's Walmart workers exploitation? Still havent won any relevant trophy in 20 years with that human rights violation.
I miss the podcast :(
Well this and the Pedro Mendes goal that wasn’t given against Man U
No wonder Tottenham have mostly finished the last game of the season strongly. That lasagne has haunted that club's mind for many years.
always???
'Seven years ago: Relegated 10-man Newcastle beat Spurs 5-1
Go back to the final day of 2015/16 when Newcastle thrashed their opponents despite going down and having fewer players'
@@IEddits 7 years ago is a while back mate. Back when Leicester were the PL champions. And ye there are occasions where Spurs do lose on the final day but mostly since the lasagne incident, they have won most of their last matchdays in the Prem.
@@Hi5GhostMUFC Nice edit of your original comment to 'mostly'.... you rat. Also, how is 7 years ago 'a while back mate' when we are watching a video of an incident from 2005-2006 18 years ago.
@@Hi5GhostMUFC 'Haunted their mind' to lose 3 out of 4 final day games in the following years...
07/05/2007 Tottenham Hotspur - Manchester City 2:1
11/05/2008 Tottenham Hotspur - Liverpool FC 0:2
24/05/2009 Liverpool FC - Tottenham Hotspur 3:1
09/05/2010 Burnley FC - Tottenham Hotspur 4:2
Meanwhile Lasagne helped Haaland win the Treble and Break all goal records in his debut premier league season 🤣
wait was the lasagna that was given for the investigetion the same one that the players ate beacuse he could swap them
Never seen so many misspellings of lasagna in my life
It's all dumb. It should be LAZANYA...spell it how you hear it
Would've really been the cherry on top to mention how Arsenal supporters created the "lasagne" song (to the melody of Gypsy Kings' "Volare"):
Lasagne woah!
Lasagne woah!
We laughed ourselve to bits,
When Tottenham had the s**ts,
Lasagne woah!
just like UEFA's handling of the Europa conference game when most of our team got COVID and then the PL allowed Arsenal to rearrange their fixture with us when they had 1 COVID case...at least we had the chance to hand them a hiding that season to take their place in CL .COYS
All of that to get battered home and away the following season and to not get any european football 😭
Traditionally, Lasagne is cooked and served for all the family, on the Holy Feast Of St. Totteringham's Day! May it come early this year!
3:25 😂😂😂😂
In Jamaica, we call that being nerminous.
The lasagne and Asernal were in cahoots.
I don't know if people know that I'd doesn't have to be a physical poison.... if the lasagne was freshly cooked.... will cause food poisoning... let's say it was cooked today before and refrigerated warmed up amd served to the players that will cause food poisoning. Not a spurs fan 😊
What's the name of the virus? The subtitles are borked by the end of the video.
This is also why many sports teams place a high importance on personal hygiene. Washing your hands before eating can help stop the spread of viruses
Tottenham should bring a Garfield to solve the lasagna.
I remember those four choices, lasagna, chicken, pasta, or steak. I had the fish.
Its no exaggeration to say that if ANY other team experienced what happened to tottenham, theyd have gotten a delay. Arsenal got a game against spurs reacheduled 21-22 despite having more than enough eligible players, just because they didnt want to play. All facts.
The wildest CZcams title I've ever seen😂
Wow, I didn't know this story. I feel like so wrong for making fun of Spurs not winning a trophy.
Same. In general I don't make fun of players anymore. Even someone like Maguire. Maybe he isn't a bad person. He is also a human with emotions
Just realized that Chelsea were also involved and decided the fate for both North London rivals and the Champions League after this scandal:
2012: Chelsea won the Champions League (at that time, UEFA only allowed 4 clubs from each countries to participate instead of 5, while Chelsea were 2 places below Spurs).
2016: Spurs drew with Chelsea to give Leicester a historic Premier League triumph, then somehow lost the last 2 games, surrendering their 2nd place finishes to Arsenal.
2022: North London Derby on January was postponed to May because most players were either infected by coronavirus, got injured, or participated in AFCON for the case of African players. As such, Arsenal lost the derby, then to Newcastle, allowing Chelsea and Spurs to play in the Champions League.
Piers Morgan disguised as a chef disguised as a journalist
young Martin Jol looked like Arold Schwarzenegger
nah, fate costed spurs the champions league, the history of za tottenham.
This is football heritage.
They just didn't have the 'stomach' for the fight
Kevin lasagna what a player
Sounds like classic Tottenham to me!
Serves levy right for being cheap getting a buffet 😂
What should they do? Yes Levy is not a good owner but it was an unexpected incident
title should say did it cost them qualifying for the champions league
As a chef I can confirm the lasagne is innocent. Food poisoning does not have such a quick onset to be sick the next morning
'Arsene's fish lasagna. Tastes so good, it, sorry, you, will definitely be coming back 😬'
I'm NUFC fan and would love to laugh at Spurs considering the weird jealous abuse we get off them - but this seems like it wa fairly obvious poisoning from someone connected to Arsenal to make 50 million and get in the Champions League. The fact no one found out why that virus was about and it wasn't postponed is WAY more of an integrity issue for the Premier League IMO. Dodgy AF.
Nah, didn't you hear? the lasagne was innocent
@@nifemi_o yeah but it was a highly contagious virus - where'd THAT come from?
@@nifemi_othat was only about absolving the hotel of blame 🤦🏻♂️ Foul play was still never ruled out
That was Fish & Chips Fault…
I heard it was Evian
The Lasagna was Innocent. 😂😂😂😂😂 I Love that. Spuds will always be that Spuds.
-Lightning- lasagne in a bottle
NHS recommendation was some paracetamol!!
Tottenham out there talking about Premier League 'Misconduct' yet they are the one's who forced those guys who by all rights should've been in the ER to play a game of Soccer...
Ah. What fond memories.
"The Police was callled" 😂
Oh hey
Anybody choosing lasagne over steak deserves to get sick
Butterfly affect 🗿☕
Apparently carrick kept on vomiting right up until he stepped on the pitch...then the vomiting stopped🤥
This is the history of the Tottenham