Damon Albarn labelled 'p***k' after comments on Graham Norton despite audience laughing
Football fans got a bit tetchy because of what he said
Blur frontman and Gorillaz co-creator Damon Albarn might not be getting many tickets to his concerts from Tottenham Hotspur fans after his comments on The Graham Norton Show.
Gorillaz have an upcoming tour he was on the show to promote and Graham Norton said their 20 June appearance in London at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium would be the band's 'biggest ever gig'.
However, Albarn is a Chelsea fan and would only describe the stadium as 'a large music venue in North London', which drew laughs from the studio audience.
Unfortunately his comments attracted the attention of that notoriously thin-skinned bunch known as football fans, who took to social media and started calling him names.
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Some of them called him a 'p***k' and claimed he had always been such, though one suspects they don't know him well enough personally to claim deep insight into his character.
A Chelsea fan ribbing Spurs fans is nothing new, and there hasn't been much joy around Tottenham Hotspur this season.
They've just sacked their manager Thomas Frank as they languish at sixteenth in the Premier League so things haven't been going great.
The club have just appointed a fellow named Igor Tudor to manage the team until the end of the season so perhaps he'll turn things around for Spurs, give their fans something to smile about and make the Tottenham Hotspur stadium a happier place by the time Albarn brings the Gorillaz there in a few months time.
Or perhaps not, we'll have to wait and see.
Gorillaz announced their tour last September, dropping a bunch of dates all over the UK and Ireland before hopping over to Europe, returning to the UK for the London date in June at the aforementioned 'large music venue in North London' before heading abroad once more.
Blur frontman Albarn started Gorillaz with the artist Jamie Hewlett back in 1998, with them releasing a debut album in 2001.
As for why they called the band that, there have been plenty of theories cooked up over the years including both of the band's creators being born in the Year of the Monkey, 1968, and that the actual origin comes from a comment made by Liam Gallagher of Oasis when he was asked about Britpop bands.
Gallagher had been asked if the rivalry between Oasis and Blur was similar to the one between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and had said his band was both 'the Beatles and the Stones' while Blur were 'the f**king Monkees'.
Albarn himself has said when he started the band he'd wanted to stay anonymous and 'people weren't meant to know it was me'.
Joe Harker