West Ham co-chair Karren Brady can’t help brutal Lord Sugar and Tottenham dig on Apprentice
Lord Sugar likened one team on The Apprentice to Tottenham, which Karren Brady couldn’t help making fun of.
Despite still occupying a place in the relegation zone, there is a real feel-good factor around West Ham at the moment.
Nuno Espirito Santo‘s side have won four of their last six in all competitions, and head into an FA Cup fourth round tie with Burton Albion on Saturday off the back of a 1-1 draw with Man United.
However, the same can’t be said for Tottenham, as they are now managerless following Thomas Frank’s sacking, and are just five points above the Hammers in 16th.
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What Tottenham joke did Karren Brady make?
At the beginning of the latest episode of The Apprentice, both teams were given either 25kg of chicken or egg, and were tasked with creating two dishes based on their product of choice.
In the boardroom section of the episode, Lord Sugar said to one team of candidates: “Bearing in mind the dietary constraints, it was a worse team selection than Spurs would pick, if you ask me.”
Brady, West Ham‘s vice-chair, saw this as a perfect opportunity to twist the knife on the Hammers’ London rivals, responding with: “And that’s saying something!”
It didn’t get a response out of Lord Sugar though, but it’s sure to have made any Hammers fans watching crack a laugh and a smile.
Who has gotten the better of one another in recent meetings?
West Ham and Tottenham have been playing out their London rivalry since September 1898, back when the Hammers were known as Thames Ironworks.
In more recent times, the two London rivals have been contesting many memorable Premier League clashes down the years, and is always a fixture both sets of fans look for in the calendar at the start of every season.
So, who has been the more dominant of the two when they’ve got together in recent years, and as such, is Brady’s Tottenham jab fair?
Well, as detailed in the above graphic from Sofascore, West Ham have only beaten Spurs once in their last five Premier League meetings, which incidentally came in the most recent one, when the Hammers ran out 2-1 winners on 17 January.
Aside from that, the Lilywhites have won two of the last five games, with two draws in that time period too.
However, when Tottenham have won it’s been in emphatic style, with a 3-0 win on 13 September last year, and before that, they beat the Hammers 4-1 on 19 October 2024.
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