Rachel Riley Hits Back At Twitter Trolls After Calling Tottenham 'Bottle Jobs'

Rachel Riley felt the fury of Spurs fans after she referred to the team as 'bottle jobs' on Sky Sports' Friday Night Football.

While presenting, she said: "It's deja vu for Spurs, isn't it? Proper bottle job."

She's now fired back at the 'hideous abuse' she's received on Twitter from fans and defended her comments.

Didn’t mean any offence to Spurs or their fans tonight just a surprise to slip v WHam with their form on paper. Personal abuse is hideous.

— Rachel Riley (@RachelRileyRR) May 5, 2017

For the record I didn’t say Spurs are bottle jobs but tonight’s game was a test of nerve. WH hadn’t beaten any of the top 6 in the PL 1/3

— Rachel Riley (@RachelRileyRR) May 5, 2017

this season & after a great run to slip now is disappointing for Spurs. As a MUFC fan neutral in the title run closer would’ve been 2/3

— Rachel Riley (@RachelRileyRR) May 5, 2017

more interesting. I love football, always have, always will, banter is fun, abuse is not whoever/whatever/wherever #respect ⚽️🙅🏽‍♂️🙅🌈👕❤️3/3

— Rachel Riley (@RachelRileyRR) May 5, 2017

After having a quick look on Twitter, I can confirm that some people have been really awful towards her.

Some of the more tame comments included one from Stephen Hawkey who said: "So am I getting this right, you called Spurs bottle jobs now your backtracking. Doesn't that make you a bottle job?"

While Karl Merriman said: "You said Spurs were bottle jobs rather than saying something constructive. Poor TV and very unprofessional imo."

Ross Paul added: "If you're going to talk about respect, show some, obvious you & Sky biased against Spurs, link players away etc despite fact are 2nd!!!"