You’ve really got to feel for the folk looking after Man United’s twitter account.
Such is the feeling of misery and anger amongst the Old Trafford faithful these days that every tweet is greeted with some level of resentment or snarkiness.
Good news is very much at a premium, and it seems even nostalgia doesn’t work in brightening the spirits of their nearly 7 million followers. Quite the opposite in fact.
On Monday morning, following the weekend’s pitiful 1-0 defeat at home to Southampton, the official account marked the two-year anniversary of signing the ever-popular Juan Mata from Chelsea.
.@JuanMata8 arrived in style when he signed for #mufc two years ago today! pic.twitter.com/4lOmPFT188
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) January 25, 2016
If the desire was to boost moral and turn all those frowns upside down, it failed. Badly. In fact it only served to fan the flames of simmering fury.
Here are just a few of the less than appreciative responses…
@ManUtd @juanmata8 MAKE SOMEONE NEW ARRIVE IN STYLE FFS JUST SIGN SOMEBODY
— dyl♛ (@netflixndyl) January 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/b0redinbucks/status/691540110232424449
@ManUtd it's disgraceful that after our performance on sat that you are putting pics of Mata arriving in a helicopter
— Kit (@KirtanPatel666) January 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/GEORGEGiNES312/status/691541712804511749
@ManUtd @juanmata8 LVG should stop playing him out of position& benching him.he is supposed to be our playmaker
— harry potter n'ensumbi z'ebyaama (@KawumaLugwana) January 25, 2016
@ManUtd @juanmata8 Get that chopper back to remove Van Gaal
— Seán Webb (@seanwebb87) January 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/Hsingh44/status/691540849579180032
@ManUtd @juanmata8 Bring Mourinho in the similar way.
— Indranil (@indrxnil) January 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/NaveenkumarRM3/status/691540241891504129
