On This Day – 9th November
It used to be dodgy burgers, anaemic-looking chips and questionable meat pies that people associated with food served up at football matches. However, on this day in 2000 another type of food was added to the menu so to speak when Manchester United’s Roy Keane added prawn sandwiches!
In a post-match interview after his side narrowly beat Dynamo Kiev 1-0 to qualify from the Champions League group stages, the United captain was critical of the support from the Old Trafford crowd. He then singled out those sat in the executive boxes that night:
“They have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches and they don’t realise what’s going out on the pitch”
Keane only said what most football fans have been thinking for years. Many of the people who go along to matches and sit in the plush executive boxes and enjoy the hospitality on offer don’t tend to go for the match. That’s not to say that all of them do. I have had the opportunity to sit in the Director’s Box at my club Aldershot Town and there were some people who didn’t really seem bothered about the match at all!
Inadvertently, Roy Keane added the phrase ‘prawn sandwich brigade’ into the football lexicon and it is still used as a derogatory phrase to this day. Perhaps those in the comfy, warm seats can try some of the awful burgers and chips served to us mere mortals on the terraces instead one Saturday?!
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