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Euro 2016: Luxembourg vs Belarus May Be Postponed Due to Food Poisoning Outbreak

Luxembourg's upcoming Euro 2016 qualifier against Belarus may be postponed after 16 players suffered food poisoning after eating a meal in Minsk.

The two teams were supposed to meet on Tuesday, but with just four of the Luxembourg players not suffering “terrible stomach aches,” the Luxembourg Football Federation has asked UEFA to potentially push the match further back, per BBC Sport.

As shared by L'essentiel (h/t BBC Sport's John Bennett, who wrongly stated 17 of the players were ill), a bad batch of spaghetti bolognese is to blame, and he immediately recalled a similar story involving Tottenham Hotspur in 2006:

Remember lasagne-gate involving #THFC?