Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho makes special food delivery to help Londoners in need

Portuguese pitches in with football on hold in the Premier League during the pandemic

Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho delivers food produce from the Training Centre to the stadium food hub to aid the efforts against Covid-19 in Haringey, London. Getty

Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho delivers food produce from the Training Centre to the stadium food hub to aid the efforts against Covid-19 in Haringey, London. Getty

Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho delivers food produce from the Training Centre to the stadium food hub to aid the efforts against Covid-19 in Haringey, London. Getty

Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho delivers food produce from the Training Centre to the stadium food hub to aid the efforts against Covid-19 in Haringey, London. Getty

Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho delivers food produce from the Training Centre to the stadium food hub to aid the efforts against Covid-19 in Haringey, London. Getty

Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho has spent some of his lockdown time delivering fresh produce from the club's kitchen garden to the food distribution hub at the stadium.

The Portuguese, wearing PPE, was pictured carrying boxes of organic fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs from their training ground Hotspur Way, where the first-team's food is produced.

Approximately 2,800 deliveries of food have been made from the hub during, reaching nearly 1,500 households in the London borough of Haringey.

“It is a pleasure for me to help out in this way and see that food is going to reach those most in-need within our community at this time," said Mourinho.

“I would like to commend the fantastic volunteers working at the food hub every day, along with all the distributors, whose efforts are making a huge difference to people’s lives.”

Mourinho is living with members of his coaching staff during the lockdown, and admits his culinary skills do not extend much beyond frying an egg.

"We try our best, we don't have our families with us but we are big friends, and friends are family," he said.

"We work a lot, and time flies and when it comes to cooking we try to make it as simple as possible. I am the fried egg specialist and the other guys they are a bit better than I am."

Mourinho said Harry Kane has recovered from his hamstring injury he suffered on New Year's Day and could feature if the Premier League is able to restart.

The Portuguese offered positive bulletins regarding the England striker, as well as French midfielder Moussa Sissoko and Dutch winger Steven Bergwijn.

"They are recovered from their injuries, so Harry Kane is not injured, Moussa Sissoko is not injured, Steven Bergwijn is not injured, but it is one thing not to be injured, it's another thing to be ready to play football," Mourinho told Sky Sports.

"For them it is many, many, many weeks of injury and when the injuries were almost at an end, we stopped training.

"I don't know, they don't know, we have to wait for the official and right permission for the players to train again in groups to see if they can come back to a normal competition level.

"So if we play this season, the remaining nine matches, it would be good for everyone of us, it would be good for football, it would be good for the Premier League if players of that quality can play the remaining matches."