A sport that is likely to be 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.

Enable 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 aspect.

Luis Suarez scored twice and even Jon Flanagan bought himself on the scoresheet in what was Spurs’ worst house defeat in 16 years – they didn’t also have a shot on the right track!

Only a day later, supervisor Andre Villas-Boas was sacked after barely 18 months in cost, and Walker has revealed there was quite a 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 group didn’t do the Portuguese supervisor justice.

“I can keep in mind when he left, and I’ll always remember it,” he mentioned. “I swear to you, I’ll by no means, ever neglect it. We have been sat within the auditorium and we bought 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 drag it collectively. He began crying, I’ve bought tears operating down my eyes. Quite a lot 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 most likely didn’t do him justice on the pitch as a result of that’s why he bought the sack, however for 10-12 males to be crying as a result of the supervisor has gone, he has carried out one thing nicely within the dressing room.

“Soccer apart, he’s emotionally linked with us as nicely. As a group, we most likely 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 position of Porto president, a title he attained this 12 months.

Spurs have had six completely 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.