He may be a big, strapping lump of a man now but Olivier Giroud has admitted that, as an impressionable 10-year-old, he developed an irrational fear of 1980s sitcom puppet ALF.
Discussing the phobia in the Arsenal programme for today’s big ding-dong with Tottenham, Giroud revealed that his young soul was tormented by the very existence of ALF, the cat-eating alien star of the American sci-fi sitcom of the same name…
In Arsenal programme, Olivier Giroud reveals that, aged 10, he had an irrational fear of the 1980s sitcom character ALF pic.twitter.com/efcbKqdaUM
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Perhaps ‘irrational’ isn’t the right word as, in all fairness to Monsieur Giroud, ALF was actually bloody terrifying – with his matted fur, rumpled skin, protruding fangs, elongated snout and eight stomachs…