Robbie Williams divided north London on Friday evening by trolling Arsenal followers with a pro-Tottenham joke whereas performing on the Emirates Stadium.
Former Take That band member Williams — who’s now higher often known as a solo artist — helps Port Vale, having grown up in Stoke-on-Trent.
However the 51-year-old additionally has a smooth spot for Spurs.
He confirmed this again in 2023 after James Black, a lifelong Spurs supporter who performs reside music on matchdays on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, reworked the refrain of Robbie’s 1997 mega-hit ‘Angels’ to create an ode to Ange Postecoglou.
It went viral on social media and caught the eye of Robbie himself, who joined Black to document a particular model, which the popstar shared through Instagram.
Throughout that video, after singing ‘I am Loving Large Ange As a substitute’, Williams quipped: ‘I assume I am a Spurs fan now then.’
Robbie Williams carried out reside at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium in north London on Friday evening
In 2023, Williams recorded ‘I am Loving Large Ange As a substitute’ with Spurs fan James Black (left)
In response to this, Tottenham despatched Williams and his spouse Ayda personalised Spurs shirts with their names on the again.
Postecoglou famously went on to win the UEFA Europa League in his penultimate sport as Tottenham supervisor final month.
Regardless of ending Tottenham’s 17-year look forward to a trophy and sealing a spot in subsequent season’s Champions League within the course of, the Australian was sacked on Friday.
His dismissal was largely attributable to Tottenham’s dreadful home type, which resulted of their lowest Premier League end ever.
However though Spurs completed seventeenth — only one place above the relegation zone — many individuals have claimed that they really loved a extra profitable season than fierce rivals Arsenal, who got here second within the Premier League after shedding to Paris Saint-Germain within the semi-finals of the Champions League.
Spurs have now received 4 main UEFA males’s titles of their 142-year historical past — three greater than the Gunners, who lifted the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1994.
Williams cheekily referenced this on the house of Arsenal on Friday.
He started the set-up to his joke by asking followers within the crowd to cheer in the event that they supported Arsenal. He then inspired those that didn’t assist the Gunners to boo.
After the Postecoglou tune went viral, Spurs despatched Williams a shirt along with his title on the again
Spurs captain Son Heung-min pictured holding the UEFA Europa League trophy final month
Subsequent, Williams requested the group a query: ‘How distant are Arsenal from a European trophy?’
He gleefully answered that query himself by declaring: ‘4 f****** miles!’ — the approximate distance between the Emirates and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Williams was fast to gesture that he was solely kidding, urging any Arsenal supporters to not take his joke to coronary heart.
However many Gunners followers hit again through social media, the place they have been eager to level out that Arsenal have been the present holders of the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League.
