The injuries to the fan are understood to have not been serious but a blade was recovered close to the scene of the stabbing at the junction between Tottenham High Road and White Hart Lane.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed that it is now investigating. The two clubs are also both aware of the incident and working together in an attempt to identify the culprit and exactly what happened. Matches between West Ham United and Tottenham have been marred previously by confrontations and abusive chanting. Fans were jailed back in 2011 following a mass brawl between West Ham and Tottenham supporters close to Upton Park in 2009.
Harry Kane scored twice for Spurs Photo: REUTERS
In 2012, after a Tottenham fan was stabbed in Rome, West Ham supporters sang "Viva Lazio", "Can we stab you every week?" and hissed on several occasions during a fixture at White Hart Lane. They also subjected Tottenham fans to chants of "Adolf Hitler, he's coming for you”.
Two West Ham fans were subsequently cautioned by police and one fan was banned from Upton Park for making Nazi-style salutes. The two clubs have since issued repeated messages before this fixture in an attempt to warn supporters of a zero-tolerance approach to abusive chanting or violence.
The match was played in a good spirit Photo: Frank Augstein/AP
There were no obvious problems inside White Hart Lane on Sunday, with both sets of supporters coming together before the match in loud applause when the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, was played as a gesture of solidarity with France following the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
Huge Lloris, the France captain, also played the full 90 minutes for Tottenham after telling manager Mauricio Pochettino that he felt mentally ready for the fixture despite playing in the France v Germany game that was targeted by three suicide bombers.
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