Thierry Henry riled up Tottenham followers with a savage dig as he took Lionel Messi‘s FIFA Best award.
The Arsenal legend, 46, co-hosted the annual awards ceremony in London on Monday (January 15) night time. He was joined on stage by the Spurs supporting Reshmin Chowdhury.
And he made essentially the most of that after Messi, who wasn’t in attendance, was named the highest males’s participant for 2023. Henry accepted the accolade on his former Barcelona team-mate’s behalf.
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He mentioned: “Unfortunately the winner is not here, so someone is going to have to take the trophy. I will take it. I mean I came. I actually have two reasons for taking it. I never won it, so I’ll keep it.”
It was then he turned his consideration to colleague Chowdhury, persevering with: “And you are a Tottenham fan right? You usually don’t get your hands on a trophy, so I’ll take this one. Thank you very much.”
His artful remark angered Tottenham followers on social media, with one arguing: “So obsessed haha, you’d never catch a former Spurs player thinking about them as much as he does with us.”
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A second responded: “Rent free aren’t we. F***ing obsessed.” And a 3rd ranted: “Bottled two European Cup finals with Arsenal and piggy backed Barca after saying he was loyal to the Gunners.”
“He’s good with his hands,” teased a fourth as they shared an image of his notorious handball vs Ireland, whereas a fifth added: “Showing all the category of of a man who would handball Ireland out of the World Cup.”
Tottenham’s trophy drought stretches again to 2008, once they beat Chelsea 2-1 to win the League Cup. They’ve reached the ultimate of that competitors twice since, in addition to the Champions League in 2019, however misplaced all of them.