A sport that is perhaps finest remembered for the well-known ‘Oh f*** off even Flanagan has scored’ Tweet is one which additionally triggered tears within the Tottenham dressing room, as Kyle Walker has revealed.
Permit us to take you again to December 15, 2013. Liverpool made the journey to White Hart Lane and put 5 unanswered objectives past a hapless Tottenham facet.
Luis Suarez scored twice and even Jon Flanagan received himself on the scoresheet in what was Spurs’ worst house defeat in 16 years – they didn’t actually have a shot on course!
Only a day later, supervisor Andre Villas-Boas was sacked after barely 18 months in cost, and Walker has revealed there was a whole lot of crying in Tottenham‘s dressing room on the information.
Talking on his BBC podcast, ‘You’ll By no means Beat Kyle Walker‘, the ex-Spurs defender conceded the staff didn’t do the Portuguese supervisor justice.
“I can keep in mind when he left, and I’ll always remember it,” he stated. “I swear to you, I’ll by no means, ever neglect it. We have been sat within the auditorium and we received wind that he was going.
“[Daniel] Levy sacked him, however he was nonetheless within the constructing and we have been nonetheless prepared to coach. He got here downstairs and began crying in entrance of us.
“He began crying in entrance of us, and I keep in mind his assistant was telling him to tug it collectively. He began crying, I’ve received tears operating down my eyes. Plenty of the lads had tears.
“Michael Dawson is welling, he can’t cease crying. He’s emotionally crying as a result of that’s how a lot he meant to the lads.
“We in all probability didn’t do him justice on the pitch as a result of that’s why he received the sack, however for 10-12 males to be crying as a result of the supervisor has gone, he has executed one thing effectively within the dressing room.
“Soccer apart, he’s emotionally related with us as effectively. As a staff, we in all probability let him down a bit.”
It was fairly the chastening defeat for Tottenham, and simply eight years later Villas-Boas would retire from administration altogether to imagine the function of Porto president, a title he attained this yr.
Spurs have had six totally different everlasting managers since Levy sacked Villas-Boas in 2015, plus a handful of caretakers.
The 5-0 drubbing actually is a present that retains on giving.
