Football fans are a typically unforgiving bunch, especially most of the lot that have access to Twitter accounts.
Just look at what happened when the person running the Manchester United twitter account deleted a couple of tweets about the team’s starting lineup for the game with Arsenal on Sunday.
Using their usual starting xi graphic, the lineup confirmed that Jose Mourinho had indeed rested a couple of key players ahead of the Europa League semi-final return with Celta Vigo on Thursday night…
Spot the mistake? Probably not.
Fortunately, several eagle-eyed Twitter users did spot it, and soon pointed out that it failed to show who would be United’s captain for the day – hardly a surprise given how many times the United captaincy has changed in recent weeks.
Love how @ManUtd actually deleted the team news just to tweet it again because they forgot to put (c) next to Rooney's name 😂
— Man Utd News (@RooVanMataZaj) May 7, 2017
Their second tweet confirmed that Rooney would indeed be United’s skipper for the game, and was met with numerous replies pointing out the error in the first tweet. Possibly because of the replies (but possibly not), the second tweet was also swiftly deleted.
Within seconds of the third and final version tweet landing, people were queuing up to remind the person running the account of their (relatively insignificant) mistake.
3rd time lucky lads?
— Retro United (@Retro_Utd) May 7, 2017
Got it the first time lads
— _ (@TenHagd) May 7, 2017
Waiting for you to reupload this the 4th time
— Yun Hong™ (@YunHongOfficial) May 7, 2017
@OfficialFPL Not even sure if this is the real lineup. 3 times you had to tweet this 😂😂😂
— ◢ ◤ (@swagnito) May 7, 2017
U ok? Still hungover from the Saturday night?
— m (@IceColdToto) May 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/PogbaMagician/status/861220646906474498
https://twitter.com/RabidRojo/status/861221035353538560
Not really a big deal, but we’re sure you’ll not lose any sleep now you know…
