Man Utd legend Gary Neville sparks row with Jenas and O’Hara after damning tweet about former Tottenham stars
GARY NEVILLE sparked a furious Twitter row with Jermaine Jenas and Jamie O’Hara with his cutting comments about former Tottenham players.
The Sky Sports pundit, 48, took a swipe at the footballers-turn-pundits from White Hart Lane criticising the club.
Spurs threw away a lead against another relegation-threatened side on Monday night.
Despite taking the lead against ten-man Everton, Lucas Moura got himself sent off before Michael Keane blasted into the top corner to rescue a 1-1 draw.
The Goodison Park debacle saw Tottenham get dominated by the Toffees after the opening goal despite the man advantage.
The result, which did see Spurs jump into the top four on goal difference but having played twice more than Manchester United, followed the 3-3 draw at Southampton that promoted Antonio Conte’s explosive press conference and ultimately his sacking.
And that led to a furious reaction from many ex-Spurs players, especially when caretaker boss Cristian Stellini claimed his team “played a good game”.
Jenas tweeted: “I can’t watch this team anymore ffs.”
And O’Hara raged on talkSPORT before storming out of the studio: “I’m done.
“Someone save me. I’m done, I am done. Who is this imposter? Has Antonio Conte come back?
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“Has he done a [Jose] Mourinho and has got in the kit room or something? What am I hearing? What was that interview?
“He’s talking about keeping the ball and he put Davinson Sanchez on. A good game? I’m done, mate. I’m done. You can carry on, I’ve had enough of this.”
Neville could not resist the urge to stir up some trouble on social media, though.
The ex-Manchester United defender tweeted: “Interesting seeing ex-Spurs players that never got near to Champions League places for years when they played for the club saying they can’t watch this current team now.
“Spurs are in fourth place currently ahead of Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool. Perspective!”
The post, viewed by more than 2.2million people within five hours, eventually triggered a response from both O’Hara and Jenas.
O’Hara said: “Massive fan of Gary Neville so won’t get into a slanging match.
“I did play for Spurs, grew up at Spurs and a huge fan who cares about the club and seeing the awful football week in week out is hard to watch.
“Everyone is entitled to an opinion and we may be fourth but it’s diabolical.”
Jenas shared a photo of himself playing for Tottenham in the Champions League and captioned it: “… maybe he wasn’t taking about me. Apologies if so @GNev2.”
One fan account replied to Neville: “Gary, respectfully, it’s so much more than just trying to get fourth and you know it.”
But the former England right-back quipped back: “It wasn’t last season when you beat Arsenal.”