Quiz! Can you name the line-ups from lasagna-gate: West Ham 2-1 Tottenham in 2006?

By Alex Reid
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See how many men from the teamsheet you can recall from this controversial Premier League 2005/06 season finale 

It'd take a heart of stone (and a stomach of steel) not to feel a bit sympathetic for Tottenham. Ok, Arsenal fans probably didn't. Nor West Ham.

A stomach bug caused by a dodgy lasagne swept through Martin Jol's Spurs squad the night before their crucial, final match of 2005/06. The north-London club tried to get the game postponed, but to no avail. Their 2-1 defeat to Alan Pardew's West Ham, coupled with a Thierry Henry hat-trick at Highbury, meant Arsenal pipped Tottenham for the final Champions League qualifying spot.

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Alex Reid
Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.