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Football fatties have long had to take abuse from fans on one of their many chins. Leading the way in the long list of lardy tributes is an all-time classic:

Who ate all the pies?

Who ate all the pies?

You fat bastard! You fat bastard!

You ate all the pies!

[Sung to the tune of ‘Knees up Mother Brown’, a 1930s hit by Harris Weston and Bert Lee.]

This classic is one of the milder songs sung by West Ham fans to hate-figure ‘Fat’ Frank Lampard following his defection to Chelsea in 2001. Fellow victims of the classic include roly-poly Swedish striker Thomas Brolin, whose Michelin-man body graced the Premier League in the 1990s with Leeds and Crystal Palace.