Responding to other users' tweets, they made fun of the club's lack of recent silverware, posting a picture of an empty trophy cabinet being for sale and then made a barb about the club's defenders.

In a reply to a tweet asking whether the Dulux dog can play centre-back, they tweeted: "He might do a better job".

The tweets certainly made a splash as Dulux was the second top trend on Twitter in the UK.

Spurs said the partnership will see the club "benefit from the unrivalled expertise in paint and colour" of the country's leading paint supplier, with all club buildings getting a facelift using specific paint colour matches.