The She Kicks Locker Room: The Menu with Maz Pacheco (West Ham United)

One of West Ham’s summer signings takes the magazine’s food questionnaire, and answers it with some enthusiasm. Peppers, mushrooms and tofu are out; a Byron burger with chips and an Oreo milkshake is the thing she would eat far more often if she were not an athlete, and tapas is a whole vibe. Her treat meal is a rare sirloin with chips and peppercorn sauce at Flat Iron. Before a game it is two pieces of toast with avocado and poached eggs, runny not hard, with a little Tabasco – perfection, she says. She has not yet found out what happens after a West Ham game, having only just started pre-season, but would never turn down a quick trip to Byron. At half-time it is Lucozade Sport and IsoGels, and her signature dish is chicken teriyaki.