Football fans are known to ‘sacrifice’ all sorts of food habits and other delectables baiting their favourite clubs to win. But Tottenham Hotspur’s follower going by the handle @James Mouatt had taken a different vow.
On November 15, 2015, Twitter user James had declared ‘Won’t tweet again until @SpursOfficial win a trohy’ at 10.54 pm. Finally , James resurfaced on Twitter with a Rock gif that said ‘FINALLY’.
Football Twitteratti was delighted announcing that James had ‘cooked’ even as fellow Spurs fan @TOTspurs, Peets was celebrated for reassuring James last August that the title would come the following year.
— James Mouatt (@JamesMouatt_8)
Plenty of fans urged James in Spanish to show up and unleash characters on Twitter as soon as Man Utd was beaten. For those who had been chanting ‘Free James’ (from his self exile from Twitter), declared his liberation as the victory, albeit cumbersome one, was sealed.
James describes himself as Former captain of Park Celtic FC and someone with a professional MMA record of 0-0. A Harry Kane fan, James’ last tweet on Spurs had been about Kane being labelled a Man Utd target in 2015 despite pleading loyalty to Spurs in June 2015.
Besides UFC, James had also tweeted on Irish cricket in 2015 and considered Arsenal as rivals, while being a Coldplay fan. James had been a Spurs fan since the days of Lloris, Kaboul, Vertonghen, Eriksen and Adebayor.
The most common question James was asked on his return was how he still remembered his Twitter password.
Arsenal fans were slantways trolled in comments under same post asking them how long they’d need to wait. Someone said, “2070”. Another diss came from @May Jay Bae who wrote, “Anyone who does something like this for Arsenal will have his/her grandkids wait till they pass away.”
“Whats more impressive is not dying in between…” quipped @utasikika James about the 10 year gimmick, over “10 fing years” as they say in Irish.
