Harry Kane illness stirs up memories of the day Daniel Levy sent angry letter to Premier League

For Tottenham fans, the news of Harry Kane and other Spurs players having been ill ahead of the final match of the Premier League season will stir up flashbacks of that fateful day in 2006 when a lasagne was blamed for something that wasn't actually its fault.

For those who might not remember, in May that year Spurs only had to travel to West Ham and match Arsenal's result against Wigan in order to finally finish in fourth place and clinch a place in the Champions League.

Martin Jol had prepared his team methodically in the final week of the season and with Robbie Keane fit again, he was confident the team could overcome a midtable Hammers side with one eye on their FA Cup final against Liverpool the following weekend. The big Dutchman couldn’t possibly know what was about to happen.

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As was the norm for away games in London, the Spurs team checked into a hotel at 7pm the night before the match. For the West Ham tie, they picked the five-star Marriott Hotel in Canary Wharf. Coincidentally, Arsenal had gathered next door at the Four Seasons Hotel.

A buffet dinner was laid out for the Spurs squad in a specially-booked room. It included lasagne and fish dishes and the player tucked in. Then everyone headed back to their rooms to drift off to sleep and dream about the Champions League.

A couple of years after that fateful day, I interviewed Hans Segers, Spurs' then goalkeeping coach. I'll let the former Tottenham keeper take up the story of what happened next.

"It was such a strange incident. I woke up the next morning and I went downstairs. It had all been organised that the squad would go for a walk and then have the pre-match