Tottenham star ‘faked injury’ so he could ‘leave match and catch a flight’
There's nothing worse than rushing around to catch a flight – just ask former Tottenham star Stephane Dalmat.
According to Dalmat's ex-Spurs team-mate Bobby Zamora, the maverick Frenchman once faked an injury during a game so that he could get to the airport on time. Dalmat spent the 2003-04 season on loan at White Hart Lane, making 22 appearances for the club.
Despite currying favour with Tottenham fans, the 44-year-old's attitude wasn't always up to scratch, as described by Zamora on a recent podcast appearance. During the same podcast, Zamora also recalled the time Dalmat's fake injury, which he first revealed on Jimmy Bullard’s Off the Hook podcast.
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On that occasion, he said: "We played a game at Spurs. In the first five minutes of the second half he just walked off the pitch.
"The ball wasn’t out of play or anything and he just starts walking off the pitch. I think I was on the bench and I thought he has pulled his hamstring or something. He walks down the tunnel. Doesn’t say anything to anybody. We played the game and then came in and he had shot.
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"So we are like 'Where is he, where is he? I don’t know. Not sure'. He was supposed to come in for the warm down – but he doesn’t come in for two days.
"I find out in the end that he has got a plane to catch and he can’t get to the airport after the game because of the traffic and all that so he has gone off the pitch, walked down the tunnel ‘off I go I’m going to get my plane.' He went back to home to France. He was just one of those players that just didn’t care."
Dalmat had earlier played for Marseille and PSG before joining Inter Milan. He turned out for rather less illustrious clubs after his spell at Tottenham, later signing for Racing Santander, Bordeaux, Sochaux, Rennes and Nimes.
Zamora added: "He was an absolute player. He was strong, quick, powerful, you could not get the ball off him. He had that sort of French arrogance. He played for some mad big clubs but just nobody could manage him. He was just an absolute loon.'
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