Condor keeping Gareth Bale stocked with baked beans...

Friday 10 June 2016

The world's most expensive footballer will be full of beans for Wales' first Euro 2016 match against Slovakia this weekend - and it's all thanks to Condor.

The company has ferried more than 62kg of the nation’s favourite beans to the team’s football camp just across the water in Dinard after the local café owner issued a distress call for help.

The ferry company has taken responsibility for re-fuelling the whole team during their stay in France including Bale - the most expensive footballer of all time, who joined Real Madrid for €100.8 million in September 2013.

Not long after he joined the Spanish giants, with whom he won the European Cup this season, Bale told the Daily Telegraph that one of the things he had missed most was baked beans - until he found a local supermarket in the Spanish capital that stocked them.

Condor Ferries’ Corporate Communications Manager Helen Day said: “Firstly there was a shortage of fuel in France and now there’s a shortage of baked beans!

“Fortunately Condor has been able to come to the rescue of the Welsh football team, by delivering enough supplies for their cooked breakfasts to keep the players full of beans and ready for Saturday’s first match!

“We were contacted by the owner of a local café in Dinard, close to the team’s football camp, to see if we could help source any baked beans for the players to enjoy as part of their breakfast – and of course we were very happy to help. Hopefully it will be just what the team need to get through the group stages – and if they do – we’ll send some more!"

“We serve hundreds of breakfasts on board our ferries every day, so we know how important baked beans are as part of the British meal-time tradition. We’d like to reassure our passengers that although we’ve diverted some baked bean supplies to help the Wales squad, we’ve ordered extra to make sure that our passengers don’t go without!”