
Tottenham Hotspur: The (alleged) food poisoning conspiracy theories
Antony Melvin
Scotland Yard have taken food samples from the London Marriott West India Quay Hotel where the Tottenham Hotspur players ‘enjoyed’ some lunch. Whether there was food poisoning or not it seems a reasonable working theory at this time.
[Ed: Perhaps some use of the word ‘allegedly’ would be useful at this point.]
The dish that is allegedly responsible for this outbreak of Delhi-Belly is alleged to be lasagna (perhaps Bella Pasta was full?) – not your usual shellfish type suspect, and also not a foodstuff that regularly takes out large numbers of young men. If this were the case then lecture theatres up and down the country would regularly be empty … well perhaps that does explain a few things then.
So many of the Spurs players were affected that Martin Jol was reduced to listing the players that avoided the lasagna – “Paul Robinson, Stephen Kelly, Anthony Gardner and Jermain Defoeâ€Â. As conspiracy theories are now whizzing round it seems appropriate to have a look at them and make up some of our own.
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