Piers Morgan rubs Jamie O'Hara's nose in it as he's forced to make awkward Arsenal U-turn

Arsenal fan Piers Morgan revelled in the Gunners' dream start to the north London derby - and he took the most of an opportunity to rib Tottenham fan Jamie O'Hara

Piers Morgan had some fun at Jamie O'Hara 's expense following Arsenal's storming start in the north London derby.

Morgan, a huge Gunners fan, was in dreamland after watching Mikel Arteta's men clock up a commanding 3-0 lead in the first half of Sunday's match against Tottenham courtesy of Bukayo Saka, Kai Havertz and an own goal from Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.

And he took the opportunity to flex his newfound bragging rights on social media during the match. O'Hara, a Tottenham fan, was the target after posting: "Up the Spurs, the derail Arsenal trophy is up for grabs today, let’s have it", earlier in the afternoon.

Morgan mischievously quipped back: "Hi Jamie - hope you’re having a good day." O'Hara, who was covering the game for Sky Sports News, was forced to track back on his earlier tweet after Arsenal's third goal and admitted the game was all but over for Spurs.

"I said the next goal is the one. You ain't coming back against Arsenal from three goals [down]. Shocking defensively. They've figured us out; teams have sussed us out all season. Set-pieces were a disgrace and this set-piece coach [Nicolas Jover] standing on the sideline like he's Pep Guardiola. It's very easy: all they've done is get five players standing on the back post and they're running into gaps."

When it was put to O'Hara by his fellow pundit Jay Bothroyd that Jover and co have identified weaknesses in Tottenham's approach by doing their research, he added: "It's shocking."

Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville singled Jover out for praise while commentating on the match. He branded the former Manchester City coach a "little nuisance" after Arsenal's opener before lauding him again after Havertz's goal.

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Neville said: " It’s getting messy for Spurs, but Arsenal sending a message - ‘over to you, Manchester City’. Set-pieces, Arsenal have been outstanding at them all season. In parts of the season where they weren’t playing great football it was the attacking set-pieces such a big factor.

"They’ve just got options. The delivery is perfect but there’s four or five of them in there all looking like they could get a glance on it. Havertz does. He’s on a dream run, the German. There he is again, the set-piece guru gets a hug [from Mikel Arteta]."

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