Sunderland boss Paolo Di Canio has taken away the player’s ketchup at lunch times and there is also no mayo allowed on butties.
Di Canio, who is known to be a fitness freak, has ruled out ketchup, mayonnaise and even ice.
The fiery Italian has spent the summer transforming the club with a list of ten players being brought in and a tough fitness regime which includes extra training and a strict diet, with all the players being given a list of things they can and cannot eat.
And ketchup, mayonnaise, ice cubes, burgers and suchlike are all banned.
Di Canio told reporters: ‘In general the players are getting the message about how things will be here.
‘Gone are the days of a player coming in and boasting about drinking seven beers the night before.
‘Now they arrive an hour early for training, and we have lectures about why we can`t have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and ice.
‘They can cause chemical problems to the liver, to the stomach. If you have ice with coke you can have indigestion.
‘I know players who`ve had ice with their coke the night before a game and then couldn`t play.
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