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Arsenal fans celebrate Reiss Nelson after stunning Spurs swipe

Arsenal midfielder Reiss Nelson enjoyed winding up Tottenham fans during their thrashing at Manchester City on Saturday.

Nelson scrolled all the back through Spurs’ Belgian defender Jan Vertongen’s Twitter timeline to 2012.

And located an infamous tweet when Vertonghen had referred to his then club Ajax in somewhat derogatory terms.

He proceeded to retweet it, much to the mirth of Gooners worldwide and the fury of their rival supporters. Nelson soon took the post down - but not before it was caught by his fans:

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