Chelsea caused uproar yesterday by taking their own food-taster on their trip to Transylvania.

The squad flew into the heart of Dracula country for a Champions League match and got the locals’ blood up by issuing a 35-page list of demands at their five-star hotel.

The presence of the taster was ridiculed in Romania, where the London club’s stars were branded "soft".

A worker at the exclusive Opera Plaza hotel said: "What do they think we’re going to give them - Dracula blood?

"Do they really think they’re so grand they need a food taster?

"It’s insulting, like something out of the Middle Ages.

"They are too rich and too soft."