Much ado about nothing?
Anyone associated with Louis van Gaal or the management at Manchester United know that anything they say, tweet or Instagram at the moment is going to be scrutinised.
Everyone is desperate for clues as to the immediate future of the club’s current manager, and so everything is dissected and analysed for any sort of message.
On Sunday morning, United’s chief goalkeeping coach Frans Hoek tweeted a wordless image of what looked like the sun at dawn from his personal account…
— Frans Hoek. (@Frans_Hoek) December 27, 2015
Nothing to see here you may think…wrong! Twitter being Twitter, and football fans being football fans, it generated various theories as to its meaning.
Some took it as confirmation that Van Gaal would get a stay of execution…
If this is any guide, looks like LVG will be in charge tomorrow. https://t.co/z0rbNEgja8
— Simon Stone (@sistoney67) December 27, 2015
Others that it signified some sort of mass sacking…
@Frans_Hoek @Brandonsayer1 car park empty, everyone sacked ?
— Keith Russell (@Keith_Russell) December 27, 2015
There was wishful thinking that it was perhaps a departures shot…
https://twitter.com/ajs612/status/681071195635216384
Some hoped it was a new dawn signifying the end to the darkness…
https://twitter.com/eldar117/status/681066627463540736
Or perhaps a final keepsake memory…
@Frans_Hoek taking final photos of Carrington as time's nearly up? Best of luck for tomorrow's game thou, UNITED
— redforevermufc (@redforevermufc) December 27, 2015
Or…you know, it could just be a meaningless photo?
