At the time, no one except, presumably, the cook cared that the kitchen was hot and smelly, or that she had to climb onto a chair or a stepladder to fetch the plates, orcrouch on the floor to reach into the cabinets where she kept her pots and pans.
In his absence, Tottenham will rely on fellow strikers Peter Crouch, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Robbie Keane while England could turn to Crouch, Fulham's Bobby Zamora or Sunderland striker Darren Bent who scored the third goal in Tuesday's 3-1 qualifying victory in Switzerland.