Peter Crouch reveals all on former Tottenham teammate’s bizarre tendencies at the club

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Peter Crouch has revealed all about former Spurs left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto, explaining his strange tendencies when he was at White Heart Lane.

Peter Crouch played with some great players during his time at the club. The towering English forward had the privilege of linking up with the likes of Jermaine Defoe, Luka Modric and Gareth Bale to name but a couple.

Someone that he did play with however that didn’t seem to get all the plaudits, was none other than Cameroonian full-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto.

He became a bit of a cult hero at the Lane, always putting in fine performances and becoming one of Tottenham’s most consistent players at the time. However, it appears there were elements of madness behind his methods.

Peter Crouch reveals all on Assou-Ekotto’s weird tendencies

Apparently, the left-back didn’t exactly live the life of a modern-day footballer and actually had some very strange tendencies.

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 1.30 pm 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…'”

“Benoit would turn up with a Tesco 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 training in, sometimes a Smart car, then a Lamborghini; the way he would refuse to take ice baths for recovery, on the rather basic premise that they were ‘too cold’.

“Benoit was a really weird guy but we loved him a lot.”

You always knew Benoit was probably a very quirky guy…. but nothing like this! The most shocking part is how in shape he always seemed. We may try the ‘Assou-Ekotto’ diet ourselves!