Knows what he’s doing, to be fair. Nothing like a Maccies breakfast before work
Leigh Griffiths is about as deadly as strikers not named Henrik Larsson come in the Scottish Premiership, boasting an impressive 73 goals in 119 appearances for Celtic.
His only appearances in England came in a single season at Wolverhampton Wanderers, you know, long before they began signing Portuguese players almost exclusively, and afterwards moved on loan to Hibernians for a couple of years before the Bhoys eventually snapped him up.
It has now been revealed that whilst Griffiths was initially making a name for himself in Scotland for then First Division side Dundee, the diminutive forward used to visit McDonald’s every single day before training as he travelled from his hometown of Leith, Edinburgh.
Basically a former teammate has grassed him up. Can’t ever trust them, can you?
Former Dundee player Sean Higgins described the fast-food ritual on the Pele Podcast, explaining to host Craig Telfer:
“Every morning we met at the Forth Road Bridge, McDonald’s. He’d come in the car, McDonald’s breakfast… stinking. I was ‘wee man, how can you do that?’ Every morning hash brown, double bacon and egg McMuffin and coffee.”
That’s it Leigh. The athlete’s diet. You ignore the haters pal. You keep plowing through those McMuffins. It’s probably even a far more impressive stat than his goalscoring record for Celtic, that. If somebody could track down the amount of double bacon and eggs per appearance.
Fortunately, the Hoops striker has managed to turn his diet around and is now, believe it or not, selling Herbalife, an American sports nutrition/health product under the name ‘Sparky Nutrition’.
No, really.
Obviously when he tried to plug his new brand on Instagram it didn’t go too well for him, perhaps because his teammates could see the Big Mac sauce he had dribbling down his chin at the time.
Patrick Roberts asked him if Irn Bru was included whilst captain Scott Brown simply replied with five – not four but five- whole laughing crying emojis.
He then commented again for good measure with a ‘hahaha’ and to tell the ‘weeman’ he had him in stitches, in case he wasn’t completely sure after the emojis and the ‘hahaha’.
Scottish football, eh?
