Chelsea defender takes cheeky jab at life in England in interview | OneFootball

Chelsea are doing a nice Christmas series where they look at a few of their players and their festive stories, and today they took a chance to look at Benoit Badiashile.

BB’s Christmas memories

Benoit Badiashile with a Chelsea news logo. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)

There’s something sweet about hearing a grown man, especially a pretty stoic one like BB, talk about his Christmas memories. For example, when he talks about getting a remote controlled car for his present, you can almost see the smile breaking out on his face:

“I don’t know if it was the first [present I remember], but I can really remember one when I received an electric car.”

Like all Frenchmen, he also can’t resist a chance to point out how much better French food is than the swill we eat in the British Isles:

“It’s the [normal Christmas] food, it’s not that different from what people have in England. The best bit is le dinde, which is the roast turkey. It’s similar to here, but I like it done the French way.”

“For me, it’s more about Christmas Eve, the evening, and then on Christmas morning we don’t really do anything too special. On Christmas Eve, we have a big dinner with a lot of food and we just talk and laugh all together.”

Happy Christmas, Benoit. Let’s hope we get some good performances from him under the tree.

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