Djed Spence may well still be in the first half of his professional football career, but he has already had a rollercoaster of a time.
After being highly rated as a teenager at Middlesbrough, a falling out with Neil Warnock saw the player cast aside ahead of a shock move to Tottenham in the Premier League.
His early years at the North London club were marred by reports of a bad attitude, but over the past year, he has emerged as one of the club's most important players and now looks like he is going to fulfil his potential.
The Tottenham faithful are big fans of the player, too, and we have all the key information on their Djed Spence chant below.
Djed Spence chant, lyrics and tune
The Djed Spence chant is sung to the tune ‘Give It Up' by KC and The Sunshine Band. The lyrics are controversial and contain a word that some people may find offensive. They are as follows:
Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na now
Djed Spence is a Yid, is a Yid,
Djed Spence is a Yid
Djed Spence chant background
The Djed Spence chant is controversial specifically because it features the word ‘Yid', which has long been a contentious phrase associated with Tottenham Hotspur and their supporters.
The club's links with the Jewish community saw the word used as an antisemitic slur towards Spurs fans in the 1970s. Instead of leading a campaign to shut the chants down, the Spurs fans decided to take ownership of the phrase to take away all offensive meaning.
As a result, Tottenham fans have called themselves the ‘Yid Army' for several decades now, but it remains a point of contention in some quarters.
Labelling Djed Spence a ‘Yid' is perhaps even more controversial than all other instances where the word has been used by Spurs fans. Spence is the first Muslim to play for England, so labelling him a ‘Yid' could cause offence, given the historical and modern-day tensions between Jews and Muslims.
Tottenham fans singing the Djed Spence chant
FGG says: A chant that should be shut down
If Tottenham fans want to call themselves ‘Yids', then that is up to them. However, they don't have the right to associate their players with this term, especially those who are publicly aligned with another religion. The sooner Tottenham fans stop singing this football chant, the better.