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Leicester cult hero Ian Marshall recalls their last meeting with Atletico Madrid... It began with paella and ended with despair

There is a fishy tale behind the cover of the matchday programme from the last occasion Leicester City faced Atletico Madrid.

Twenty years ago Ian Marshall posed in the Filbert Street stands with a huge bowl of paella on his lap and what appeared to be a big grin across his face. But the truth is slightly different.

'I was at the training ground and they wanted me down at the stadium to take the photograph,' Marshall tells Sportsmail.

Cult hero Ian Marshall wrote his name in Leicester folklore with a goal at Atletico Madrid
Cult hero Ian Marshall wrote his name in Leicester folklore with a goal at Atletico Madrid
For the second leg programme Marshall posed with a rather old paella
For the second leg programme Marshall posed with a rather old paella, 'it stunk', he says
it prepared the paella at about 8am but Marshall's picture was taken 1pm, 'it stunk', he says

'Someone had prepared the paella at about eight o'clock in the morning but I didn't get down there until one o'clock in the afternoon.