Stick with the banter

TOTTENHAM fans were spot on to give Jack Wilshere some stick when he was injured on Saturday.

After all, Wilshere (below) didn’t mind giving them some after Arsenal won the FA Cup a couple of years ago.

Nowadays, we’re in an age of players scoring against their former clubs and it’s all, “Ooh, sorry, sorry I scored...” Absolutely ridiculous. I mean, for crying out loud, man up!

I always gave supporters some after I’d scored and Danny Baker will tell you how much he loved it when I bagged for Southend at Millwall and gave their fans behind the goal the bird.

On the flip side, I remember going to White Hart Lane with Aston Villa just after coming out of The Priory, where I’d been treated for depression, and to a man the home crowd sang to me: “You’re mad and you know you are.”

But I loved it, I absolutely revelled in stuff like that, and it’s what the game is missing these days.

SO it’s looking a lot like Hull or Swansea to be relegated with Sunderland and Middlesbrough – and from a purely selfish perspective I hope it’s Hull.

It would be great for English coaches if Paul Clement can keep Swansea up and I’ve a sneaking suspicion he might just do it by a point or on goal difference.

That’s because they just have that little bit more up front and in midfield, particularly with Gylfi Sigurdsson in their ranks, than Hull have.