Who ate all the pies? Five legends with large waistlines

4. William Foulke

One look at the picture, and you would have no second thoughts on why Willam “Fatty” Foulke made the list, or why he was nicknamed that way. He was 6 ft 4 inches tall and is said to have weighed 24 stones. He was very temperamental and once snapped a crossbar clean in two, and not many were surprised.

Foulkes never let his size hinder him from performing at the top level, and was a good football and cricket player during his days. He was a great crowd puller, and often had a go at the defenders if he thought they were not defending well, and the opposition forwards always kept a distance from him, lest he should toss them into his goalpost.

He won the First Division once and the FA Cup twice with Sheffield United. He was paid a record wage of 3 pounds per game, though it is quite unclear as to if it included his food expenses.

Though he played only one season for Chelsea, most Shed End faithful will remember him with awe and respect. It is rumoured that the chant “Who ate all the pies” originated in his tribute.

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3. Micky Quinn

Micky Quinn was a centre-forward who is known for his spells at Portsmouth and Newcastle. Affectionately(or otherwise) nicknamed ‘Sumo’, he was well-known for his large appetite for goals and food.

He always maintained that he “couldn’t give a damn as long as the ball hits the back of the net”. And a good finisher he was, taking Portsmouth to First Division in 1987, a league they last played in the late 1950s. While at Coventry, his boss Bobby Gould let out something that could be construed in more than one ways, “I’m not worried about his weight. He has a predatory instinct second to none, and he’s very hungry.”

Quinn himself, was not too bothered with what went around. “I remember at West Ham once we were waiting for a corner and some fan shouted the ['Who ate all the pies?'] chant and threw a pie at me, I actually managed to catch a bit of it and I just ate it in front of him!”

He claimed that he was “the fastest player in the world over one yard.” After retirement, he took to caring for horses, and his favourite quote is “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”.