![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/crouch-reveals-prem-cult-hero-was-weird-guy-who-always-ate-same-bizarre-lunch/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/peter-crouch-tottenham-hotspur-celebrates-844699308.jpg&description=FOOD FOR THOUGHT Published : 14:44, 13 Sep 2023 Updated : 14:51, 13 Sep 2023 PETER CROUCH has revealed former Tottenham left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto 'didn't like' football and used to eat a peculiar lunch before games. Assou-Ekotto, 39, spent nine years at Spurs from 2006 to 2015, racking up 202 appearances for the club. 2 Peter Crouch has spoken about Benoit Assou-Ekotto's bizarre views and eating habits Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd 2 Assou-Ekotto, right, spent several years as Spurs' first-choice left-back Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd Two of those seasons were spent playing with Crouch , 42, who featured as one of Harry Redknapp 's strikers while they competed for the Champions League places. Yet despite impressing with many of his performances, Assou-Ekotto was not actually a football fan. Speaking to The Mail , Crouch said: "He [Assou-Ekotto] 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 Benoit, we've been talking about them in training all week...'" Crouch also spoke about the bizarre lunch the ex-Cameroon international used to eat prior to a match. The former England target man continued: "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. "Benoit 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 tra){kind=link}
PETER CROUCH has revealed former Tottenham left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto ‘didn’t like’ football and used to eat a peculiar lunch before games.
Assou-Ekotto, 39, spent nine years at Spurs from 2006 to 2015, racking up 202 appearances for the club.
Two of those seasons were spent playing with Crouch, 42, who featured as one of Harry Redknapp’s strikers while they competed for the Champions League places.
Yet despite impressing with many of his performances, Assou-Ekotto was not actually a football fan.
Speaking to The Mail, Crouch said: “He [Assou-Ekotto] would tell us straight out that he had no interest in football whatsoever. He genuinely didn’t like it.