BT SPORT viewers were left in hysterics before West Ham’s clash with Tottenham – as Peter Crouch towered over fellow pundit Joe Cole.
Rather than sit next to each other around a table as usual, the pair stood side-by-side in the studio at the London Stadium.
Peter Crouch had viewers in hysterics as as he loomed over fellow BT Sport pundit Joe ColeCredit: BT Sport
And fans could not stop laughing as the 6ft 7in star made the former Hammer look tiny.
Cole is not the biggest at around 5ft 9in but is still almost a foot shorter than his former England team-mate.
So it was little surprise Twitter was focused on the difference in height between the pundits rather than the difference Jose Mourinho will make on his first game in charge of Spurs.
One wrote: “BT producers pretty openly stitching up Joe Cole today…”
Another said: “Shall we get them to sit down. Nah, it won’t look like Joe Cole is miles away stood next to Crouch.”
A third added: “Are you taking the p*** by making Joe Cole stand between Peter Crouch & Jake Humphrey? The lad looks like an oompa-loompa.”
In another Roald Dahl-related comment, one commented: “Stood next to Joe Cole, Peter crouch looks like the kid out of willy wonka and the chocolate factory after he’s been stretched.”
One went with: “They put Joe Cole next to Peter Crouch. Seriously.”
And another user typed: “Joe Cole next to Peter Crouch isn’t fair.”
Mourinho is desperate to get the best out of the likes of Eric Dier and Dele Alli who struggled during the latter stages of Mauricio Pochettino’s reign in North London.
But the future of Christian Eriksen still needs to get sorted with the Dane out of contract next summer and left on the bench for the derby at West Ham.
Cole and Crouch played alongside each other for England including at the 2006 World Cup in GermanyCredit: Reuters
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
