Jason Cundy’s public life appears to have one predominant function: to make Jamie O’Hara as depressing and mortified as doable.
Cundy is, by now, soccer’s largest wind-up service provider. It’s a position he revels in, and one which has introduced talkSPORT’s Sports activities Bar present immense recognition on social media.
He’s in his ingredient with that ridiculous Ange Postecoglou masks stretched comically over his head, firing wisecracks and shameful stats about Tottenham over at O’Hara, who can solely sit along with his head in his palms and take the mockery.
So, how a lot pleasure does Cundy soak up tearing his radio co-pilot to shreds?
‘An enormous quantity,’ he tells Every day Mail Sport. ‘I do not really feel for Jamie.
‘Each single sport, they lose or handle to not rating. By no means has the expression ‘the reward that retains giving’ been extra acceptable to Spurs at every other time.’
Jason Cundy has develop into soccer’s largest wind-up service provider attributable to Tottenham’s decline
His Ange Postecoglou masks and jibes have been a menace to talkSPORT co-host Jamie O’Hara’s
Cundy even turned as much as O’Hara’s marriage ceremony carrying the masks and takes ‘large’ pleasure in annoying him
There’s something relentlessly humorous in regards to the Postecoglou masks. One thing in regards to the sheer smugness of it, the expressionlessness, as O’Hara sits a metre away having meltdown after meltdown as this warped face simply… watches him, unblinking.
O’Hara could not even escape the haunting face at his marriage ceremony to Keziah Grubb this 12 months. On one of many largest days of O’Hara’s life, there was Cundy, head wrapped tight in his favorite Postecoglou-themed plaything.
Within the week after our interview, Cundy posts no fewer than eight clips of him ripping into O’Hara’s former membership Tottenham, who’re backside of the Premier League and winless. In a single, he diagnoses the membership with ‘Spursitis’, one thing no one in soccer needs.
TalkSPORT has typically fallen foul of accusations of ragebaiting its listeners an excessive amount of, however the masks is sort of universally cherished by its viewers on social media – until they’re Tottenham followers.
‘I got here up with the concept to get masked as a result of talkSPORT is so visible,’ Cundy says. ‘I did not realise it will tackle a complete lifetime of its personal.
‘We purchased them from South America and we order a brand new masks yearly.
‘We purchased the Ange masks when he was the supervisor at Nottingham Forest, and by the point the masks turned up he’d obtained sacked, so I needed to discover a position for it.
‘We have got a Gary Neville one, an Arne Slot one, and now we have a Jamie Carragher one, that’ll come out quickly.
Cundy was talking to Every day Mail Sport on behalf of TENA Males, who have been sponsoring the 2026 Prostate United launch occasion
‘It is the identical masks every time. It completely stinks! It is obtained a bizarre odor about it. I inform Jamie it is the odor of failure. That is what it stinks of.
‘I did clear it however assume it is best to only depart it now, simply to do what it does, in some way simply let it lie in its personal stink, and the more severe the masks will get the more severe Spurs get.’
Cundy was talking to Every day Mail Sport on behalf of TENA Males, who have been sponsoring the 2026 Prostate United launch occasion. The 56-year-old is a survivor of testicular most cancers, so the difficulty of males’s well being is near his coronary heart.
‘I’ve a voice to talk and unfold a message – go and get your self checked for testicular most cancers, or get a PSA test. You’ve got an obligation to your self and your loved ones.’
He has introduced his most cancers expertise onto the airwaves earlier than, recording a long-form interview with talkSPORT on the topic in 2022, displaying a deeper, extra delicate aspect to his character than the joker we sometimes get to listen to.
There’s a pitfall within the present’s reliance on Spurs being dangerous: specifically, what if the north Londoners begin being good?
Possibly O’Hara would then have the possibility to show the tables on his mate and have a dig at his alma mater Chelsea.
In any case, Cundy is not too nervous about Tottenham turning into sensations in a single day.
Tottenham are backside of the desk and winless this season underneath supervisor Roberto De Zerbi
‘You possibly can’t end seventeenth, seventeenth, and go into a brand new season anticipating there to be an enormous dramatic change,’ he says.
‘Spurs aren’t within the large six. Spurs can be within the large six within the Championship if they don’t seem to be too cautious.
‘In the event that they keep on being c***, Roberto De Zerbi will get the sack. That is soccer. That goes for each supervisor, not simply him. However as a result of it is Spurs, historical past is repeating itself.
‘They’ve signed gamers that do not rating targets: Omar Marmoush scored eight final season, Savio 4. Mathys Tel, meh, 4. Richarlison’s not within the Premier League squad.
‘Should you put Erling Haaland up prime, he nonetheless would not rating. They do not create probabilities.’
Jason Cundy was talking on behalf of TENA Males, who sponsored the 2026 Prostate United launch occasion. To search out out extra about Prostate Most cancers UK’s soccer fundraising problem go to – prostateunited.prostatecanceruk.org/
