10 Funny Spurs Stories From The Premier League Era

2. Benoit Assou-Ekotto Doesn't Actually Like Football

In 2010, Spurs left back - and current White Hart Lane outcast - Benoit Assou-Ekotto revealed, rather surprisingly and somewhat hilariously, that he doesn't actually like football. The Cameroon international basically admitted to being a mercenary - which you actually have to admire. He said:

If I play football with my friends back in France, I can love football," he says. "But if I come to England, where I knew nobody and I didn't speak English € why did I come here? For a job. A career is only 10, 15 years. It's only a job. Yes, it's a good, good job and I don't say that I hate football but it's not my passion

He continued:

I arrive in the morning at the training ground at 10.30 and I start to be professional. I finish at one o'clock and I don't play football afterwards. When I am at work, I do my job 100%. But after, I am like a tourist in London. I have my Oyster card and I take the tube. I eat.

He also claims that he can't understand why other footballers lie and that he thinks most of them have exactly the same attitude as him, but would simply never have the balls to say it.