'It would be boiling hot, 30 degrees outside, but I'd be wearing a jacket,' he says. Obliged to don a Chelsea polo shirt or sweatshirt when on club duty, he would always wear a jacket over the top, regardless of the temperature.

When Chelsea played Tottenham, he would do everything he could to get the day off, and if there was no way of avoiding it, he would 'secretly' wear a Spurs pin badge as a private show of defiance. Part of Jones' role was to produce preview shows on matchdays with former Chelsea players such as Jason Cundy and Pat Nevin. Mark into the new Sp#rs stadium рџ–•рџ–•рџ–•рџ‚ 'It would have been the worst-ever sporting situation I can imagine come to life.' He followed last season's UEFA Champions League final at a fearful distance, via live text commentary, dreading the thought that Tottenham might lift the European Cup before Arsenal. While he believes he has 'mellowed' with age, Love remains implacably anti-Spurs. Seeing my team lose to our biggest rivals while I was wearing a Tottenham suit and very hungover with incredibly happy Spurs fans around me: It was every bit of misery you can imagine.' 'Spurs went 1-0 up before half-time and I was like, 'I can't handle this anymore. After seeing a resurgent Spurs take the lead against Arsenal in one derby game at White Hart Lane, he walked out of the stadium and went to sit in his car. Love joined Tottenham at a time when Arsenal were still in the ascendancy in north London, but could only watch on powerlessly as his employers slowly began to turn the tide. I could take the job for what it was -it was a job, and I was being pragmatic -but I still felt like I had to defend Arsenal at all times.' There would be times when I'd get into conversations about Arsenal and Spurs, and that fire in the pit of your belly is there the whole time. I've got a couple of really good friends who are Arsenal fans, and I didn't want to talk to them about it, because it did feel a bit treacherous and a bit wrong,' Love says. It was either that or unemployment, but it was nonetheless a difficult pill to swallow. In what he describes as a 'really cruel twist of fate,' he missed out on the Arsenal position, and having been encouraged by a recruiter to apply for a similar role at Tottenham, he found himself working for the enemy. As an adult, he lived just off Holloway Road, a five-minute walk from the Emirates, and when he heard about an opportunity to work at Arsenal as a multimedia producer, he thought all his dreams had come true. Love grew up in Finchley, north London, and attended his first Arsenal game, a 0-0 draw against Sheffield Wednesday, in November 1994. But what must it be like if you find yourself working for the club you hate on a permanent basis? There are countless stories about football fans exploiting opportunities presented to them by their jobs to mock their club's archrivals, from the Manchester United supporters who buried a red United shirt beneath the car park at the Etihad Stadium to the West Ham United fan who embedded a Hammers scarf in the concrete at the new Spurs stadium. Because I was incredibly enthusiastic about what was happening. We had some messages coming through saying, 'Hang on a minute you sound a bit too enthusiastic about this.' So I had to reel it in. 'I wrote 'GOAL! GOAL! GOAL!' in all capital letters, with exclamation marks, and then I described it. 'I was doing the live text, and I remember I did one entry when Arsenal were coming back,' Love told Bleacher Report.

Behind enemy lines lol