The West Ham players can claim a night out on John Terry and his Chelsea team-mates after beating Tottenham, James Collins has revealed.
The Blues won the title last week following their victory over West Brom at The Hawthorns, having been given a major boost by Spurs’ defeat at the London Stadium.
And it has emerged that the champions’ captain, Terry, handed the Hammers extra incentive ahead of that match.
‘John Terry text me and Mark Noble saying, “If you boys beat Tottenham there’s a dinner or a night out on the Chelsea boys,” so that was nice,’ Collins told Betway Insider.
‘But we wanted to beat Tottenham anyway. We’re lucky we did in the end looking at the result we got after that [a 4-0 loss against Liverpool].
‘It was a massive result, it put us safe and obviously to beat our closest rivals at home was massive.’
West Ham’s first season at their new home has been largely forgettable but that victory over Spurs was a highlight.
‘It’s all about the tactics on the night, you change formations, change tactics for each team you play.
‘Credit to the gaffer he got it spot on and we stopped them,’ Collins said of their gameplan against the Premier League’s second-placed side.
‘Obviously we watched a lot of videos on how they play and obviously the gaffer and his staff have looked into how they play and set up the team to stop them scoring and hopefully we could get one, which we did.’
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