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11th May 2016

Jack Wilshere’s planned Twitter Q&A goes about as well as you’d expect

Predictable

Tom Victor

‘Never do Twitter Q&As’ is the ‘Never work with children or animals’ of the internet era.

With Jack Wilshere returning to fitness ahead of Euro 2016, ESPN called on fans to ask the England midfielder anything they wanted, using the #AskWilshere hashtag.

On reflection, they may have been a little too broad with their remit.

There were questions about Wilshere’s injury record.

https://twitter.com/_Peter_1980/status/730393308959256577

https://twitter.com/Spursesque/status/730354514432299008

https://twitter.com/joshuathfc_/status/730355236800499712

His run-ins with the police.

https://twitter.com/Dierbolic/status/730354907111432192

And his love for the odd cigarette.

https://twitter.com/ThomasHember/status/730401660242169856

Of course Spurs fans got involved

https://twitter.com/Graeme_D_1985/status/730368960009515008

https://twitter.com/JellySmiff/status/730365220489678848

https://twitter.com/DemPele/status/730354891630194688

It’s a shame, as there were some interesting questions asked, but it looks like it’s all been knocked on the head.

https://twitter.com/sfkhann/status/730342995229315072

Probably because a lot of the input looked a little like this

https://twitter.com/DailyMesut/status/730408674376753153

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