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Video shows West Ham and Tottenham fans come to blows at London Stadium

Video shows West Ham and Tottenham fans come to blows at London Stadium with some breaking through the barrier on the concourse.

The Hammers beat their bitter rivals once again thanks to a goal from Michail Antonio, who pounced to fire home from an Aaron Cresswell corner as David Moyes’s side moved up to fourth place in the Premier League table.

However there is no love lost between West Ham and Tottenham and several videos have emerged on social media and on WhatsApp of clashes between Spurs and Hammers supporters on the stadium concourse.

The rival fans broke through a dividing door and a large-scale scuffle ensued with drinks being thrown between the West Ham and Tottenham supporters.

Footage from the away section of the concourse shows Spurs fans kicking open the dividing door.

Stewards were pushed aside and no police can be seen in the video as West Ham fans responded.

The Hammers were hit with a £50,000 fine by UEFA after crowd trouble on the terraces during the win over Rapid Wien last month.

It is not clear whether anyone was hurt in the incident. But it appears from the video that the worst anyone would have got was wet.

West Ham and Spurs are yet to comment.

It brings back memories of some of the first games to be held at the London Stadium where stewarding and segregation arrangements were criticised.

Stewarding is not the responsibility of West Ham on a matchday but the LS operators.

Player ratings

West Ham: Fabianski (7), Johnson (7), Zouma (7), Ogbonna (7), Cresswell (7), Soucek (7), Rice (8), Bowen (6), Benrahma (6), Fornals (7), Antonio (8)

Subs: Dawson (N/A), Lanzini (N/A)

Tottenham: Lloris (8), Royal (6), Romero (7), Dier (6), Reguilon (6), Hojbjerg (7), Skipp (7), Lucas Moura (6), Ndombele (7), Son (6), Kane (5)

Subs: Gil (6), Bergwign (N/A)

Man of the match: Declan Rice

West Ham boss David Moyes: “I thought the game was close. We played slightly different today in that it was good to see that we’ve won the game without having as much of the ball. In Premier League games you have to find different ways to win it. Tottenham had a bit of possession but overall we were really resilient. The players stuck at it. The players were fantastic. We have lost goals in the last minute in games after Europe so we’ve got over that today. The West Ham fans have got a good team that work hard for them – everybody was really good in the stadium.

On top-four push: “It’s where I want us to be, it’s where I expect us to be. There have been a couple of games we’ve missed out on when we’ve played well enough. Today we didn’t have as much of the ball and play quite as well but winning games is important on the back of two other wins. It’s been a good week for us.”

Tottenham boss Nuno Espirito Santo: “We were the better team, honestly. I think we controlled the game, we had chances. We had possession. West Ham are a good team but they only created chances on counter-attacks and set-pieces. We played better, but this is football.

“The last pass was there but we need to be more aggressive in our offensive game. We controlled the game. The whole game was under control.

“The table is a reference but doesn’t guide us. We have to improve our character as a team, our wish to want to achieve a better team game. We need to work on that.”

Opta stats

  • West Ham’s 17-point haul after nine matches is their best return since 2015-16, when they went finished seventh under Slaven Bilić, while it is three more points than they had after the same number of games last season.
  • Spurs failed to have an attempt of any kind during the second half of this match, last doing so against Arsenal back in December last year. Indeed, it’s the third time since the start of last season that they’ve failed to do so in the second 45 minutes, more than any other side.
  • Antonio has now scored more goals in all competitions against Spurs than any other side as a Premier League player (6), including netting in three in a row against them at the London Stadium.
  • Kane has failed to score in each of his last five Premier League London derbies, his joint-longest wait for a goal in such clashes alongside a five-game run between May and December 2014.
  • All of Antonio’s Premier League goals have been scored from inside the penalty area, with only Tim Cahill (56) and Chicharito (53) managing more goals in the competition with 100% of them coming from inside the box.

Twitter users reacted as a video shows West Ham and Tottenham fans come to blows at London Stadium…

@donson1990: Not a phone in sight. Just living in the moment

@cillian_35123: Security don’t get paid enough to deal with this shit

@CharliePoly: It’s all kicking off and your first thought is…………. “let me get my camera on my phone out”

@GeoKet72: Definitely getting the World Cup. 100%. Money on it. 🥴

@SRTWallace: The official Beer Chucking Championship.

@Rileyt035: Grown men btw

@TomFPL: Absolute scruffs all of them

@ChristianEagle0: Fucking hell. I know the prices of pints at the Olympic stadium, and I def wouldn’t be wasting any like this

@ajwhite1987: At least someone linked to Spurs is putting up a fight

@madwhu: Tottenham get battered everywhere they go, Tottenham get battered everywhere they gooooooooooooooooo

@Niallrobo25: What a waste of beer

@unoitmakessense: Bunch of dickheads

@TJD1986: Actual fans would turn up and watch the game and then go home, these are not fans just people spoiling for a fight… Pretty pathetic.

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