“It’s happened again.”
This isn’t the first time Jason Cundy has begun The Sports Bar by mercilessly mocking Jamie O’Hara about Tottenham’s form, and let’s face it, it won’t be the last.
But it’s a joke that will never get old for Cundy and Chelsea fans with the Blues once again one up on their London rivals.
In the latest battle, Chelsea claimed a 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge, Enzo Fernandez heading in the winning goal early in the second half on Thursday night.
Cundy was covering the game for Chelsea’s club media, meaning he was a little late for his Sports Bar hosting duties as he had to hot-foot his way from south west to central London.
However, he made up for lost time by bursting into the studio and aimed another cheeky dig at a crestfallen looking O’Hara.
Cundy began by chanting: “It’s happened again, it’s happened again! Tottenham Hotspur! It’s happened again!”
The former Chelsea, and incidentally former Spurs defender, then threw himself into his signature ‘has anyone seen?’ with of course, Tottenham and anyone or anything he could think of associated with the club being the butt of the joke.
And O’Hara, later in the show, revealed his honest feelings about the club’s current predicament.
When one Spurs fan queried the lack of winning mentality of the team during his spell there, he said: “When I was there, I disagreed with that because we got to two cup finals, we won the Carabao Cup.
“We were in the Europa League. The standard was set, to win the Europa.
“There were good moments at Tottenham and I think there was a difference, but they had players on the pitch like Robbie Keane and [Dimitar] Berbatov and [Luka] Modric, you know, like [Jermaine] Jenas.
“And then they left and now I feel like it’s a completely different Spurs team.
“I don’t look at this Spurs team and think that there’s a mentality there that we’re going to go and rock up to Stamford Bridge and get a result. I don’t see it.
“There’s no men, there’s no leaders, it’s just they’re out there, they’re playing for themselves and the manager looks lost on the sideline.”
O’Hara then got more irate when the caller suggested he ‘loved’ the way Postecoglou deals with the media in interviews.
He fumed: “What do you mean?
“He deals with the media terribly.
“He gives the media nothing. He comes in, he’s had ten good games and all of a sudden he’s laughing with Gary Neville Jamie Carragher and everyone thought he was like the Messiah.
“Like do me a favour, his interviews are terrible. He argues with talkSPORT, with Sam Matterface. It gives you nothing.
“It’s a myth. It’s a myth. Any other manager at Tottenham Hotspur would have got the sack. He would have been gone. We’ve lost 16 games.
“Every team around us has sacked their manager. Every single team has sacked their manager around us. Every one of them. We’re still there with Ange.
“I reckon I could take over and do a better job! Genuinely. Seriously.”
O’Hara would have known Cundy’s antics were coming as he has done this a few times before.
After Chelsea’s 4-3 win at Spurs in December, the first Sports Bar show afterwards saw Cundy jokingly throw paper at O’Hara as he gloated the victory.
He made a late entrance last season after Chelsea thumped nine-man Spurs 4-1 in north London too.
The pressure on Postecoglou, meanwhile, is clearly mounting.
His celebrations for Pape Matar Sarr’s disallowed goal were premature.
And they grabbed the headlines too as he appeared to cup his ears at the Tottenham fans after some chanted ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’ when Sarr was brought on for Lucas Bergvall.
Postecoglou denies making this gesture as a way of hitting back at the Spurs fans, though.
When asked about the gesture, he told Sky Sports: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.
“I wanted them to be happy. We’d just scored a cracking goal so I wanted the supporters to cheer.
“They hadn’t had a lot to cheer about.”
The result, Spurs’ their 16th Premier League defeat of the season, means they remain 14th in the table.
Meanwhile, Postecoglou broke an unwanted record for becoming the first ever Tottenham manager to lose his opening four league games against Chelsea.
As for Chelsea they go back into fourth spot having briefly been leapfrogged by Manchester City and Newcastle during the earlier midweek games.
