Il a passé 18 ans à Arsenal, dont six sous la houlette de l’entraîneur français Arsène Wenger qui a transformé la culture culinaire du club. Jusqu’à un certain point. « Je mangeais encore un fi sh & chips par semaine quand je jouais pour Arsène, dit Adams. Tous les vendredis sur Putney Bridge, je m’avalais un cabillaud-frites en contemplant le fl euve. » La révolution française du foot londonien a certes vu une multitude de joueurs et d’entraîneurs passer par Arsenal, if you want to know the diff erence between English and Chelsea et Tottenham et changé les mentalités en matière de French attitudes to football, then ask Florent Malouda régime, psychologie, tactiques et technique, mais on ne prive and Tony Adams about pre-match meals. Malouda, a pas un Londonien de son fi sh & chips. French midfi elder at Chelsea, enthuses about Sumosan, Pour Malouda, tout a commencé en 1997 lorsque Arsène a sushi restaurant in Mayfair. “When I lived in Surrey I’d Wenger, arrivé depuis peu à Arsenal, a recruté Nicolas drive an hour-and-a-half to get takeaway for my Anelka, un attaquant de 17 ans. « Il n’avait qu’un an de pregnant wife,” he says. “It’s very healthy the night plus que moi et ça a été un choc de le voir quitter Paris, before the game. You have to watch what you eat.” se rappelle Malouda. D’habitude, c’était les joueurs déjà London-born Tony Adams’s answer is very diff erent. confi rmés qui partaient. À cause de sa jeunesse et de son Adams spent 18 years at Arsenal, the last six under succès à l’étranger, il est devenu l’idole de nombreux jeunes French manager Arsène Wenger, who is said to have joueurs. S’il l’avait fait, alors nous aussi nous pouvions. » transformed the club’s culinary culture. But only to a Auparavant, la tendance était aux joueurs anglais venant point. “I still ate fi sh and chips every week when I played en France. Ainsi Glenn Hoddle, Chris Waddle et Clive Allen under Arsène,” says Adams. “Every Friday on Putney ont quitté Tottenham pour jouer dans des clubs français à la Bridge, I had battered cod and chips, and sat there fi n des années 80. Le préféré de Malouda étant Waddle, un looking at the river.” ailier nonchalant. « C’était un monstre sacré, une légende. The French revolution in London football may have Un joueur très technique, qui prenait du plaisir. C’est seen a multitude of players and managers come and go toujours une légende à Marseille. » at Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham, and changed En 1992, la création de la Premier League injecte de l’argent attitudes towards diet, psychology, tactics and frais dans le football anglais qui s’ouvre alors au continent. En techniques, but you can’t take a Londoner away from his fi sh and chips. It all began, from Malouda’s perspective, when 17-year-old striker Nicolas Anelka joined Arsenal in 1997, signed by the recently arrived Wenger. “He was just one year older than me and it was a big shock when I saw him leaving Paris,” Malouda recalls. “Usually it was players with big careers behind them who left France. He was an idol for many young players because he was young and successful, playing abroad in the fi rst team. If he could do it, then it meant we could do it as well.” Before then, the trend had been for English players to move to France, with the likes of Glenn Hoddle, Chris Waddle and Clive Allen all moving from Tottenham to French clubs in the late 1980s. Malouda’s favourite was Waddle, a languid winger. “He was an icon, a legend. A great player, full of tricks, having fun. He is still a big legend in Marseille.” In 1992, English football received a cash injection with the creation of the Premier League and opened up to the continent. Iconic Frenchman Eric Cantona at Leeds and Manchester United was the pioneer, and by the end 70 metropolitan pour illustrer la diff érence d’attitude envers le football entre la France et l’Angleterre, demandez à Florent Malouda et Tony Adams ce qu’ils mangent avant un match. Malouda, Français milieu de terrain à Chelsea, vante les mérites de Sumosan, un restaurant de sushis de Mayfair. « Quand je vivais dans le Surrey, je faisais une heure et demie de route juste pour en rapporter à ma femme enceinte, dit-il. C’est très sain. La veille de match, il faut faire attention à ce qu’on mange. » La réponse du Londonien Tony Adams est fort diff érente. Florent Malouda came to live in London 2007 Florent Malouda s’est installé à Londres en 2007
FOUR F UR DEUX Chelsea’s Florent Malouda and former Arsenal player Tony Adams tell Peter Watts how the migration of French football talent to the Premier League has influenced the English game Photography: Steve Schofield Clash de deux cultures ou intégration harmonieuse ? Florent Malouda et Tony Adams donnent leur point de vue à Peter Watts sur l’impact des joueurs français dans le championnat anglais metropolitan 71
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