Santi Cazorla Apologises for Picture with Robert Pires Trolling Tottenham

Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla has taken to Twitter to apologise for a picture in which he and Robert Pires appeared to be trolling Tottenham Hotspur.

The Spaniard was snapped holding a piece of paper with disparaging comments about Spurs written on it:

But in a tweet he insisted he had no idea what was on the paper when he held it:

Arsenal players have been trolling Spurs in several different ways this season, so it was conceivable that this was simply the latest. 

Wojciech Szczesny, the Gunners goalkeeper, had played a piano tune directed at Spurs after Arsenal's 1-0 win in the derby earlier this season.

And more recently during their FA Cup match, which Arsenal won 2-0, Theo Walcott held up his fingers to show Spurs fans the score as he was stretchered off injured.

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Cazorla denies stoking the fire, and he wouldn't be the first sportsman to be caught out this way.

Luis Suarez, while he was deliberating over a new Liverpool deal, inadvertently signed a fan's piece of paper on which it was written that he'd commit to the Reds for another five years. It probably wasn't legally binding:

Meanwhile, in the cricket world, Mitchell Johnson was also caught out—although he made up for it by taking a shedload of wickets as England fell to a 5-0 defeat in the Ashes.