Tottenham have been ruthlessly and gleefully mocked online, with talkSPORT presenter and ex-Spurs man Jamie O’Hara savagely feeling the heat.
Crystal Palace‘s 3-1 win at Spurs, plunging the north London club deeper into their relegation crisis was a new nadir for the club on Thursday night.
Opposition supporters wasted absolutely no time in mercilessly teasing the embattled club and while most were able to turn off their TV and scream into the abyss, O’Hara had to front up on his radio show.
Co-host and Chelsea fan Jason Cundy, wearing an Ange Postecoglou mask even managed to push O’Hara’s buttons to the point of him walking out of the studio.
O’Hara said: ‘I know you’re laughing and joking mate but seriously…’
Cundy probed: ‘Tudor has had three games, give him time on the training ground, it’s not his fault is it?’
O’Hara asked: ‘Do you think he’s good enough?’
When Cundy replied in the affirmative and quipped that he’d ‘seen signs’, his irritated colleague and friend said it was ‘pointless’ doing a show with him, called him an ‘idiot’ and walked off set.
Fellow talkSPORT pundit and former Aston Villa striker Gabby Agbonlahor also had a pop online.
He posted the viral clip of O’Hara’s appearance on an American dating show in which his identity as a former footballer had been concealed until the big reveal with a woman.
Agbonlahor captioned it: ‘Spurs players on holiday in the summer trying to explain playing in the Championship next season. LOL!!!!’
The video shows O’Hara telling his love interest: ‘Actually, I’m a really famous soccer player from England.’
The taunting was not just limited to O’Hara, however, with plenty of opposition supporters sticking the knife in online and Paddy Power also taunting Spurs.
Replying to a 2023 post from a Spurs account on X talking up signing Guglielmo Vicario over David Raya, they wrote: ‘Aged like milk in a sauna.’
Another from the bookmaker went: ‘The cameraman picking out miserable Spurs fans in the crowd deserves an Oscar.’
Football influencer Expressions, who is a Spurs fan and live streams his reaction to games, joined in the misery, calling Haringey Council’s Social Services to report the ‘child abuse’ of the fans.
The TNT Sport cameramen repeatedly picked out Spurs fans looking disconsolate in the stands, much to the enjoyment of rival supporters tuning in out of morbid fascination.
One was picked out at the end of the game sitting in isolation after most had long since departed.
When he saw himself appear on camera he immediately stuck up a middle finger.
Another fan posted a clip of ‘one of our best set-pieces of the season, showing Xavi Simons lining it up before inexplicably passing the ball to a Crystal Palace player.
Another replied to the news of next season’s Championship changing the play-offs from four to six teams next season.
They joked: ‘Finally some good news for Spurs.’
Championship-related gags were a running theme, with another user sharing a clip of Keir Starmer speaking after Labour won the election, saying: ‘What a night they had in Plymouth and then Stoke,’ in reference to the unglamorous away days Spurs might have to encounter next term.
‘Man who thought he’d lost all hope loses last additional bit of hope he didn’t even know he still had,’ was another meme shared.
