Tottenham interim head coach Igor Tudor has cleared up the viral second the place it was thought he mistakenly hugged somebody pondering it was Liverpool supervisor Arne Slot.
Last Sunday at Anfield the 47-year-old Croatian was caught by TV cameras earlier than their 1-1 draw seemingly mixing up Tottenham‘s participant liaison officer Allan Dixon with Slot.
The pictures gained traction on social media and had been used to poke enjoyable at Tudor however, earlier than their Premier League residence sport in opposition to Nottingham Forest on Sunday, he stated there was no confusion at his finish.
Tudor stated he regularly works with Dixon, who can be the brother-in-law of ex-Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, and gave him one other hug earlier than their 3-2 win over Atletico Madrid in midweek to make mild of it.
“I don’t recognise the guy who I spend 10 hours with every day?! So I come out and don’t know he is? It was a little bit ridiculous,” Tudor instructed a information convention.
“Now [on Wednesday] we did it on purpose to make a joke, because from now on I call him ‘Arne’. It’s not Allan, it’s Arne!”
Tudor stated he was alerted to the incident by his household, who additionally thought he had unintentionally confused Dixon with Slot.
He added: “What happened was my son, who is 20 years old, said in Croatia everyone is laughing with you because you did this mistake. I said, ‘what mistake?’ and I said to him, ‘you do know who the guy is?’.
“So I stated, ‘it is Allan Dixon, I’m spending all days along with him’, so I got here out and he’s standing in entrance of my bench. So what different coach will be there in entrance of it? It’s my coaching zone.
“He was there, I came to him to make a joke. If you understand, I came from this side [Dixon’s right], I touched him and go to the other side.
“When he turned I used to be not shocked, I used to be laughing. I can think about in Croatia as a result of possibly they do not know who Allan Dixon is.”
