Confused Spurs twits target hero Hoy

ONE is a four-time Olympic champion and a face of the 2012 Games and the other a Premier League referee — but it appears some football fans are having trouble telling them apart.

Confused Spurs twits target hero Hoy

Cyclist Chris Hoy revealed yesterday he has been on the receiving end of insulting Twitter messages fromTottenham supporters who have mistaken him for Chris Foy.

Foy was in charge of Spurs’ 2-1 Premier League defeat at Stoke on Sunday, when the visitors had an Emmanuel Adebayor goal wrongly ruled out for offside, two penalty appeals for handball turned down and Younes Kaboul harshly sent off.

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