The science of sport has changed the game of soccer, and it is easy to see when it comes through a player's diet.
The Johannesburg Independent reports on how England's footballers have transformed their diets over the years, from sausage and chips to sushi and rice.
In 1966, when England won its only World Cup, its players feasted on typical English English fare, sausages and chips. Now England's players have more gourmand tastes, requesting such items as sushi on the menu.
The freight sent ahead to England's base at the Royal Bafokeng sports campus, included 10 kilos of Japanese rice and wasabi paste. The English players certainly like their food hot, as evidenced by the 100 bottles and tubes of hot sauce they'll have to choose from.
Their diet won't make a nutritionist entirely happy. England has brought 600 cans of Red Bull and 500 bags of potato chips. And for breakfast there will be Coco Pops, not exactly what Fabio Capello had in mind for a morning meal.
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