Antonio Conte has said Tottenham’s Champions League push will not be derailed by a sickness bug as he closes in on an achievement he suggested was nothing more than fantasy when he took over at the start of November.
The club’s supporters were given a nightmarish flashback on Friday lunchtime when Gary Lineker revealed he had heard “there’s a food poisoning outbreak at Spurs”. Numerous players at the club had fallen ill on the eve of the final-day decider at West Ham in 2006 – in the notorious Lasagna-gate episode – when they needed to win to secure a top four finish ahead of Arsenal. They lost and Arsenal pipped them to the position.
