The Football Ramble’s Guide To… Lasagne Gate
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Think the past couple of months have been, er, sticky for Spurs? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
The night before the final day in May 2006, Spurs just needed to beat West Ham to pip Arsenal to the fourth and final Champions League place – but then, they s****ed themselves because of a dodgy lasagne.
Marcus, Pete, Vish and Jim reinvestigate one of the most dramatic plot twists to any Premier League season ever!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the football Rambles Guide 2. I'm Marcus Spellaf. I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Pete Dunlison. And I'm Vityushan Hunterarja. Spurs have had some terrible luck over the years. |
| 0:16.5 | But the final day of the 2005-2006 season must go down as surely the spursiest day in all of history. |
| 0:25.4 | What happened with the illness that ravaged your team this morning? |
| 0:28.4 | Away at West Ham, Martin Yolves team would qualify for the Champions League for the first time |
| 0:34.1 | at the expense of rivals Arsenal if they could simply match the gunners result in their game |
| 0:39.6 | against Wiggen in what was to be the final match at Highbury. |
| 0:47.9 | Should Arsenal come out on top, it would be they who'd go into Europe's elite competition. |
| 0:52.0 | A simple enough brief made extremely complicated when 10 members of the Tottenham squad |
| 0:57.0 | were struck down with the shits. |
| 0:59.0 | It was very difficult for us and it was a very difficult Saturday night. |
| 1:02.8 | The team had been staying in a Marriott Hotel and a suspect emerged, a lasagna, |
| 1:07.4 | inconspicuously sat among the buffet at the team meal. |
| 1:11.2 | What followed was a performance so unforgettable. It has become a part of club folklore. |
| 1:16.8 | Back here, Japan, you're super. |
| 1:19.6 | But for Arsenal on West Ham. |
| 1:20.8 | West Ham, Cape, Berlin. |
| 1:22.7 | North London was red and a bit brown. |
| 1:25.3 | Conspiracy theories erupted and Daniel Levy was furious. |
| 1:28.8 | But what really happened? |
| 1:30.6 | We're here to investigate the facts as we know them in the Football Rambles Guide to lasagna gate. |
| 1:40.1 | Welcome gentlemen. |
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