Hoy gets grief from Spurs fans

Hoy gets grief from Spurs fans

Published Dec. 12, 2011 1:15 p.m. ET

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 fans are having trouble telling them apart. Foy was in charge of Spurs' 2-1 Barclays 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. "Just for the record 1) I don't need glasses and 2) I do not lead a double life as an English premiere league ref. That's Chris Foy," Hoy, who won three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, posted on Twitter. He continued to protest his innocence, adding: "Still getting some rather amusing grief from Spurs fans! On the plus side I've learned some new 4 letter words today. #FoyNotHoy."

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