Tottenham’s official Twitter account couldn’t help but troll Arsenal ahead of their first Champions League match tonight.
Spurs face Marseille in Europe’s top club competition after edging Arsenal to fourth place in dramatic fashion last season, with Mikel Arteta’s side instead competing in the Europa League.
Tottenham tweeted three seemingly innocuous words alongside a picture of the Champions League logo ahead of their match: ‘We’re back baby.’
But it soon became clear that there was more to Tottenham’s not-so-innocent Tweet than first appeared, with the comment delighting Tottenham fans and enraging Arsenal supporters in equal measure.
An ad for BT Sport’s Europa League coverage had gone viral the day before, with Spurs fans relentlessly mocking Aaron Ramsdale for saying – you guessed it – ‘We’re back baby.’
Arsenal were without European competition last season and will face FC Zurich, Bodo/Glimt, and PSV on Thursday nights in the group stages of this year’s tournament.
Tottenham’s glee extends to the club’s social media team, which mimicked Ramsdale’s words just hours before kick-off against Marseille to delight their fans and remind Arsenal of their season-ending collapse.