He may be in a boyband and look all pretty – but you clearly don’t mess with One Direction's Liam Payne.

Do you, Tottenham Hotspur?

The One Direction heart-throb, and West Brom fan, was involved in a nightclub bust-up with four Spurs players after he felt they were teasing a waitress a little too much.

The girl had been serving Aaron Lennon, Kyle Walker, Tom Huddlestone and Jake Livermore with jeroboams of vodka on a VIP table - where the minimum spend is £5,000 a night - at Mayfair's Funky Buddha club.

The boisterous group were laughing and joking with her but 19-year-old Liam, sitting nearby, felt she looked increasingly uncomfortable.

Eventually, the chivalrous, newly single singer (who announced he'd split from Danielle Peazer earlier this month) couldn't take any more and marched over to their table, shouting: "What the **** is going on!?"

As Liam, an avid boxing fan, squared up to them, Aaron Lennon led a spirited defence and questioned why he had a problem with them. Friends tried to calm things down until Liam returned to his table.

The bizarre exchange happened at around 2am yesterday morning and just five days before Spurs' biggest game of the season.

A friend of Liam's says: "The footballers were with four other guys and two girls, and had vodka and various mixers on their table. Liam was with friends a few tables away.

"Out of nowhere were there was a commotion, Liam looked over and thought the players were giving the waitress a hard time. He went straight over to sort it out.

"You've got to admire him for wanting to help the lady."

The players told revellers they were out after manager Andre Villas-Boas gave them yesterday morning off training.

Now, my main issue is not whether they annoyed a lady but more why the hell my beloved Spurs were out clubbing days before Sunday's match.

Instead, they should be getting in shape to beat Sunderland and qualify for a Champions League spot.

Today is the day we finally find out what One Direction's BIG ANNOUNCEMENT is.

The boyband have been teased us by saying they have some MASSIVE news - but they couldn't tell us more until May 16th.

Fans have been using their near-obsessive knowledge to unravel the mystery, and we've had some pretty good guesses at what it might be.

We'll find out later today.

We still think it might be Harry cutting his hair off.

Have you seen the video of Liam stripping off and hanging out on a boat in the sun? Yeah, that happened.