Tottenham Hotspur have been mocked with a cheeky chant by a packed out crowd at the O2 for WWE Money in the Bank over the weekend.
After “Shoes off if you hate Roman [Reigns]!” had been sung, the chant soon turned to “Stand up if you hate Tottenham” was belted out at the 2023 edition (it’s 14th overall) of the event, which was the first Money in the Bank to be held outside of the United States.
As per Sports Tiger, the event saw two Money in the Bank matches, three championship matches, and a Bloodline Civil War, with Roman Reigns seeing his first pinfall defeat since 2019 while Gunther defended his WWE Intercontinental Championship reign against Riddle and Seth Rollins beat Finn Balor to defend his WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
This was also the first time WWE came over to London since Insurrection in May 2002.
And it seems while their no football on right now, fans flocked to the O2 for WWE and a video has surfaced showing football chanting against Tottenham
“Stand up if you hate Tottenham” was being chanted at the O2 in London last night for WWE Money in the Bank… 🎶😂
— ODDSbible (@ODDSbible) July 2, 2023
Stand up if you hate Tottenham 🤣 #MITB #WWE #Tottenham pic.twitter.com/0znU5KC5ZS
— LMWR (@Luke_Richh9Six) July 2, 2023
The video clip has had millions of views on Twitter, amusing many as they it done the rounds collecting thousands of likes and replies.
Also spotted in the arena was a huge amount of fans unsurprisingly in Arsenal shirts, enjoying the light heartened taunting towards their rivals.
The first north London derby will see the Gunners host Tottenham in the Premier League on Saturday, September 23rd, while Mikel Arteta’s side play the return fixture on Saturday, April 27th.
Fans of both clubs consider each other to be their main rivals, and the derby is considered by many to be one of the fiercest derbies in the world. Although the two teams first played each other in 1887, the rivalry didn’t really begin until 1913 when Arsenal moved their ground to North London from Woolwich, south of the River Thames.
As of January 2023, 193 games have been played between both sides since their first game in the Football League in 1909, with Arsenal having 81 wins to their name, while its’ 61 for Tottenham and 51 games drawn.
When games played before both joined the Football League are included, 207 games have been played, with Arsenal winning 86, Tottenham 67, and 54 drawn.
Notable North London derby include the games in which Arsenal won the league at White Hart Lane in 1971 and their invincible campaign in 2004, Tottenham hammering Arsenal 5–0 at home in 1983 and Arsenal winning by the same score away in 1978, but also Tottenham beating Arsenal 3–1 at the semi-final of the 1990–91 FA Cup, which they went on to win.
The highest-scoring game in the North London derby is the 5–4 victory by Arsenal at White Hart Lane in November 2004.
The fixture’s top scorer is currently Harry Kane with fourteen goals, having overtaken Bobby Smith and Emmanuel Adebayor, who have ten goals each.
Here’s what Twitter users said as Tottenham are mocked with a chant by the packed out crowd at the O2 for WWE Money in the Bank…
@DaBeardedGooner: Absolutely mental!!
@roddysrealm: A whole WWE event singing about Spurs? We’re massive!
@alexw2289: Of course there’s grown men in Arsenal shirts at a WWE event. 😂😂😂😂😂
@sonny_ffc: you know it’s bad when WWE fans are taking the piss
@LEVYENICOUT: I thought we were irrelevant
@Trevorlloyd92: But yet Tottenham are ‘irrelevant’, ‘small club’ 🤣🤣🤣 rent-free
@oJaayCo: If I speak about grown adults at wresting 😬 Let alone singing about a football club which is in a completely unrelated sport
@patricktyrant: “Tottenham are irrelevant, they’re not a big club” … but yet they chat stop thinking or singing about us … #RENTFREE #InjectIt 😂😂😂
@seathz: This is incredible, doesn’t matter which event you’re at, you will always hear songs about Tottenham. Most hated team in England 😂🙌🏽
@trainy83: Imagine being so sad going to watch the wrestling in the 1st place 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@JoshuaMiless: Imagine being grown men and going to watch WWE for a start then hold hands and chant about spurs 😂
@MaDM15005984: It’s shows the mentality of the people that watch WWE. Hardly rocket scientists!!!
@JonAndr46285137: Fucking love it we are so relevant 😂😂😂😂 suck our Tottenham balls 😂😂
@MScott1891: The geezer paid to go to WWE, I feel the joke is on him
@Kyle4988: Fuck me that’s proper tragic.
@watsi_17: This is just weird
@SussexTottenham:
As I’ve said..
Hated, adored
Never ignored
☺️
@Nickyh_yiddo: I think it says it all that grown men watching WWE, and what sort of men they are 🤣🤣🤣 can’t help but sing about Tottenham
@RyenAmmons: Nice to be living rent free in everyone’s heads after finishing 8th. 😂
@ricky10yid: Let’s be honest anyone who watches wrestling needs their hard drive checking. But we are hated 🤝
@PaulE2Spurs: Being hated by WWE virgins. How do we cope?
@jonhotspur88: Grown men paying hard earned money to watch wrestling…😭
@Doolallyfrank: I hope they got to see a good title fight
@splendidspurs: This is genuinely the most tinpot thing i think i’ve ever seen, bragging about going to WWE as an adult and singing about tottenham 😂😂😂😂 How rent free can you get
@17jacksont: We’re massive
@SpursMerchant: BTW this makes us happy not rattled. Choosing to sing about Spurs in your spare time is a new level of obsession. gotta be doing something right 🫢
@bennetta46: Haha arsenal lot go to watch WWE need I say anymore
And my lord the amount of Arsenal shirts out at the event was insane. Our club is so massive 😂😂. pic.twitter.com/JPXYBfKK3B
— 𝕽𝖔𝖈𝖐𝖞 𝕹𝖎𝖈𝖔 (@rockynico) July 2, 2023
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