Leftover Rovers Manager: Tom Kerridge
Illustration by Ollie Stafford
Multiple Michelin star-winning chef, Tom Kerridge, is a massive football fan, so we thought we’d ask him to pick a football team using the Christmas leftovers sandwich ingredients as players. He went for a 3, 5, 2 formation – a defensive set up most famously used by Antonio Conte when he managed Juventus, Chelsea and most currently with Tottenham Hotspur. Welcome to Leftovers Rovers...
In goal is toasted sourdough from a San Francisco loaf, cut lengthways. Long, thin, nimble and agile, but actually rock solid and dependable. Great goalkeeper.
The three across the back: roast potatoes, stuffing and the roasted vegetables. All of them solid, dependable and reliable. A great wall of a three centre back defence.
The five midfielders...the two wing backs will be cranberry sauce and gravy. Liquidly, silky smooth and fast moving, gets up and down the pitch. The two holding mid-fielders will most definitely be the turkey and ham as robust, muscly and the centre of everything. Then the creative force through the midfield would be bread sauce. Something that you think shouldn’t work but actually does, especially with a little extra spice and seasoning.
Up front are the two strikers: first is super-hot English mustard. Fast, elbows out style and if you get too close then too much will make you cry! The second striker is pigs in blankets, undoubtably the stars of the show, highest goal scorer and the one that people want to go back and see more of.
