By Chris Wright
Having been singularly unimpressed by Cesar Azpilicueta upon his arrival at Marseille in France in 2010, French radio presenter and former Marseille left-back Eric Di Meco brazenly vowed to his co-hosts that he would “eat a rat” if the Spanish right-back ever became first-choice right-back for his country.
Skip forward two years and lo and behold Azpilicueta, now of Chelsea, made his international bow for the Spanish senior string, playing the full 90 minutes in a friendly against Uruguay in Qatar on February 6th.
True to his word, Di Meco kept us his end of the bargain, chewing his way through a platter of coypu meat (it’s commonly known as “the water rat”) and apple slices all washed down with a tall, cool glass of hubris live on RMC…
(Via 101GG)