So Antonio Conte and Steven Gerrard have walked in to Premier League jobs and immediately banned ketchup from the dining room. Marginal gains, some people call it. Others call it meaningless fluff.
All Premier League clubs employ nutritionists. We are 25 years on from Arsene Wenger arriving in English football and changing most of what our players had been eating. At Arsenal, it wasn’t just the lager that Wenger flushed down the drain.
English football is modern and now obsessed with the small details. Some players thrive on the way their diets, sleep and lifestyles are micro-managed.